STUDIES ON THE VEGETATION OF ICELAND 
TABLE 25A CONTINUED. 
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1 2 3 + 5 6 
Cardamine pratensis .... E 4 H 4 
Deschampsia caespitosa.. E2 H 4 3 
Bestuca ovina........... E4 H 12 4 
Gentiana nivalis......... A 2 Th 8 > 
Habenaria viridis ....... ALI G 12 
Hieracium alpinum ..... A 2 H 4 
Leontodon autumnalis... E3 Éd) ) | > » 12 
Peanlayspicata .........- A 2 H 20 | 8 » 
ETAT ATOUT CRE eae A 2 H 20 | 44 ) 8 » 12 
= PAUCA. .-...-..... À 3 H » 4 » 
Potentilla verna......... A2 H > i > 12 > 
Weronica alpina ......... À 2 H 4 > » 
TABLE 258. Biological Spectra of the Geiri Vegetation. 
— — | - — 
1 2 3 4 | 5 6 
NTI HÆRE; sae I lip ae 
OE LO Sener 1180. | 1428 | 1192 | 1272 || 1004 | 996 
Number of species ............ | 34 29 34 33 ra HE RED? 
Density of species............. | 11.8 | 14.3 11.9 12.2 is, 10.000 e106 
2.7. 57.6 | 440 | 419 | 465 | 462 | 494 
2 22 ECS ter rl | 42.4 56.0 | 58.1 53.5 | 53.8 50.6 
| | 
eine SE 31.2 22.4 25.8 23.0 || 35.9 32.5 
2 ere eu 19.3 16.0 11.7 11.3 | 9.2 16.9 
PR 7.1 5.6 44 | 123 | 12 » 
Ce RP dne ked tte 28.5 22.1 20.5 20.8 29.9 18.9 
a ann aha 11.5 28.3 24.8 27.0 17.9 28.5 
SE Ae er ere er 0.7 4.8 10.4 1.6 6.0 3.2 
TE REED 1% 0.8 2.3 4.1 » » 
ERP PE 42.0 29.7 31.2 31.4 39.4 30.9 
NARI eh jene 42.7 51.3 54.7 | 51.9 38.2 47.4 
DE PPT EE 15.3 19.0 14.1 | 16.1 22.3 21.7 
A oc. win hae BÆRES » > 
Pe > 0.6 » > 
The Marginal Zone. 
Along the entire upper edge of the large snow patches there 
occurs a narrow belt, rarely more than 1—2 metres wide, where a 
