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and authentic examples of S. sponhemica. A very protean species : 

 a form approaching S. c<zspitosa, from Ben More, at 1000 m., is a 

 bright green, densely tufted plant, with shorter scapes, and broader 

 yellower petals than usual (E. S. Marshall, in " Journ. Bot." i 889, 



231. 



(To be continued.} 



PLANTS OF THE FAROE ISLES NOT OCCUR- 

 RING IN GREAT BRITAIN, AND OTHERS 

 NOT OCCURRING IN SHETLAND, ORKNEY, 

 CAITHNESS, OR THE OUTER HEBRIDES. 



By ARTHUR BENNETT. 



THE full lists of plants of the Faroes given by Mr. C. H. 

 Ostenfeld a enables me to compare the species wanting in 

 the northern islands and the extreme north of Scotland. 



i. FAROESE SPECIES NOT OCCURRING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



Ranunculus glacialis, L. Epilobium lactiflorum, Hausskn. 



Papaver radicatum, Rottb. Archangelica officinalis, L. 



Draba hirta, L. Salix glauca, L. 



Koenigia islandica, L. Carex Lyngbyei, Hornem. 



And twenty-one named Hieracea, all of which are said to be 

 endemic in the Faroes. 



2. SPECIES OCCURRING IN THE FAROES, BUT ABSENT FROM ONE 



OR MORE OF THE VlCE-CoUNTIES SHETLANDS (i), ORKNEYS 



(2), CAITHNESS (3), OUTER HEBRIDES (4). 



Absence from any of these is denoted by the relative numeral. 

 Many of the species occur in Iceland, and are marked I. 



Ranunculus auricomus 1234 



R. reptans I. i 2 3 4 



Arabis petrasa I. 23 



Subularia aquatica I. 2 



Sagina nivalis I. i 2 3 4 



S. subulata I. 234 



Cerastium Edmonstonii I. 234 



1 " Botany of the Faroes, Additions and Corrections," 835-863, 1907. 

 " Land- Vegetation of the Faroes," 896-902, 1908. 



