288 pnor. c. c. babington oin' the flora of icelaxd. 



young Icelandic botanists, MM. Gisleason and Grudmundson 

 the names of which I have incorporated in the list. The only- 

 plant added to the flora by Dr. Leared is Blechnum loreale. 

 Dr. Leared usually did not take note of the exact place where 

 his specimens were gathered ; and I have therefore in this, as m 

 BOTue other cases, been obliged to insert the plants as simply 

 from Iceland. As such they and some few other specimens 

 which I have seen, are proofs of the plants growing in Iceland, 

 and thus are of considerable value, although of less than they 

 might have been if a note of their localities had been made. 



Mr. A. J. Symington gathered a few plants between Eeyk- 

 javik and the Gey sirs, and also obtained some from the north- 



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east coast, especially near Seythisfjord. Unfortunately he got 

 very few from the latter place, where no plants seem to have 

 been previously gathered. 



The Kev. S. Baring- Gould made a long tour through the 

 northern parts of Iceland in 1862. Botany was not his object, 

 and he unfortunately lost most of the plants which he collected. 

 lie appended to his book upon Iceland a list of phanerogamous 

 plants and ferns : with the exception of the names of the plants 

 gathered by himself, it is avowedly a compilation from preceding 

 authors, and includes all the errors introduced by them. 



Eecently, my valued friend Prof. Joh. Lange, of Copen- 

 hagen, has extracted for me, from the herbaria preser\^ed in that 

 city, the names of the Icelandic plants and the localities of all 

 those that are exactly localized in the island. They consist of 

 the plants of Morck, now in Ilornemann's herbarium, those of 

 the celebrated Prof. Steenstrup, collected in 1840 and 1841, and 

 those of Dr. Krabbe, gathered in 1863. I take this opportunity 

 of publicly thanking him for the very great trouble that he has 

 taken to assist me in making my catalogue as complete as 

 possible. 



In the catalogue, the capital letter placed in the same line as 

 the scientific name of the plant is the initial of the author by 

 whom the species was first recorded as a native of Iceland. The 

 initial letter of the name of the authority for each locality is 

 appended to it, in order to save the space which would have been 

 occupied by giving the name at full length. The following are 

 the contractions employed : 



