''The Botany of Iceland'' is a five-volume classic scientific work on

flora Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...

and

vegetation Vegetation is an assemblage of plants and the ground cover they provide. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular Taxon, taxa, life forms, structure, Spatial ecology, spatial extent, or any other specific Botany, botanic ...

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

. It includes

fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

algae Algae ( , ; : alga ) is an informal term for any organisms of a large and diverse group of photosynthesis, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants, and includes species from multiple distinct clades. Such organisms range from unicellular ...

bryophyte Bryophytes () are a group of embryophyte, land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic Division (taxonomy), division referred to as Bryophyta ''Sensu#Common qualifiers, sensu lato'', that contains three groups of non-vascular pla ...

s, and

vascular plant Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes (, ) or collectively tracheophyta (; ), are plants that have lignin, lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified Ti ...

History

It was published 1912 to 1949 and funded by the

Carlsberg Foundation Carlsberg Foundation () is a not-for-profit organization that was founded by J. C. Jacobsen in 1876, by allocating some of his shares in the Carlsberg Brewery to fund and operate the Carlsberg Laboratory and the Museum of National History at ...

. The project was initiated by

Eugenius Warming Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (3 November 1841 – 2 April 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, ta ...

and

Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup Rosenvinge, generally cited as Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge (7 November 1858 – 1939) was a Danish botanist and phycologist. Kolderup Rosenvinge received his Ph.D. in 1888 from the University of Copenhagen. He was ...

, who edited the first three volumes, but it was continued after their deaths.

Volumes

* Volume 1 (1912–18), edited by Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge and Eugenius Warming, J. Frimodt, Copenhagen, and John Wheldon and Co., London. ** Part I *** 1. Helgi Jónsson (1912)
The marine algal vegetation of Iceland
'. pp. 1–186. *** 2. Þorvaldur Thoroddsen (1914)
An account of the physical geography of Iceland
'. pp. 187–344. ** Part II *** 3. Ernst Østrup (1916)
Marine diatoms from the coasts of Iceland
'. pp. 345–394. *** 4. August Hesselbo (1918)
The bryophyta of Iceland
'. pp. 395–677. * Volume 2 (1918–20), edited by Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge and Eugenius Warming, J. Frimodt, Copenhagen, and John Wheldon and Co., London. ** Part I *** 5. Ernst Østrup (1918)
Fresh-water diatoms from Iceland
'. pp. 1–100. *** 6. Olaf Galløe (1919–20)
The lichen flora of Iceland
'. pp. 101–247. ** Part II (1928–1932) *** 7. Johannes Boye Petersen (1928) ''The fresh-water Cyanophyceæ of Iceland''. pp. 251–324. *** 8. Johannes Boye Petersen (1928) ''The aerial algæ of Iceland''. pp. 325–447. *** 9. Poul Larsen (1932) ''The fungi of Iceland''. pp. 451–607. * Volume 3 (1930–45) ** Part 1, edited by Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge and Eugenius Warming. *** 10. Hans Mølholm Hansen (1930) ''Studies on the vegetation of Iceland''. pp. 1–186. J. Frimodt, Copenhagen. ** Part 2, edited by Johannes Grøntved, Ove Paulsen and Thorvald Sørensen. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen. *** 11. M.P. Christiansen (1941) ''Studies in the larger fungi of Iceland''. pp. 191–227. ** Part 3, edited by Johannes Grøntved, Ove Paulsen and Thorvald Sørensen. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen. *** 12. M.P. Christiansen (1942) ''The Taraxacum-flora of Iceland''. pp. 229–343 + 44 plates. ** Part 4, edited by Johannes Grøntved, Ove Paulsen and Thorvald Sørensen. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen. *** 14. Steindór Steindórsson (1945) ''Studies on the vegetation of the Central Highland of Iceland''. pp. 345–547. * Volume 4 (1942), edited by Johannes Grøntved, Ove Paulsen and Thorvald Sørensen. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen. ** Part 1 *** 13. Johannes Grøntved (1942) ''The pteridophyta and spermatophyta of Iceland''. pp. 1–427. * Volume 5 (1949), edited by Johannes Grøntved and Thorvald Sørensen. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, and Oxford University Press, Oxford. ** Part 1 *** 15. Emil Hadač (1949) ''The flora of Reykjanes peninsula, SW Iceland''. pp. 1–57.

History

Volumes

See also