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posited, after having been examined by Dr. Hooker, Professor of 
Botany at Glasgow, whose interesting account of them is, by the 
order of the Council of the Society, now presented to the Lin- 
nean Society. 
PLANTS FROM THE EAST COAST OF WEST 
GREENLAND. 
Cl. I. DICOTYLEDONES. 
RANUNCULACE.. 
1. RANUNCULUS. 
1. R. nivalis. 
Inhabits the cold northern parts of Europe, Asia and Ame- 
rica. Itappears to have been first discovered in Spitzbergen 
by Martins, where it affects the sea-coast, as it also does the 
shores of Arctic America (Rich.). It was among the plants 
found in Melville Island, and there are numerous specimens 
of it, gathered in the various places visited by Captain Parry 
in his late voyage. In Iceland it inhabits the high mountains 
of the interior; as it does also in Lapland, where Wahlenberg 
tells us it is found to occur rarely on maritime alps at the 
North Cape. On the Altaic Alps of Siberia ( Larmann). 
The form and size of the leaves, and the number of their 
lobes, are equally variable in these as in Captain Parry’s speci- 
mens, and include the variety which has been called sulphureus. 
2. R. auricomus. 
Found in various parts of Europe, extending as far south as 
Greece. Gmelin gives it as an inhabitant of western Siberia, 
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