Dr. Hooker's Account of a Collection of Arctic Plants. 36l 



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. 



CI. I. DICOTYLEDONES. 

 RANUNCULACEM. 



1. Ranunculus. 



1. R. nivalis. 



Inhabits the cold northern parts of Europe, Asia and Ame- 

 rica. It appears 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 {Laxmann). 



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, 



Thunberg 



