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of habitat elsewhere, all of them easterly ; while the close proximity 

 of Greenland seems only to have suggested the unexpressed notice so 

 often made conspicuous in the streets of London, " No connexion 

 with the establishment next door." As the lines used for the list of 

 non-British plants are none of them full length, the further addition 

 of the words " Greenland" or " America" might have been made to 

 show westerly range likewise, and without adding a single line to the 

 length of the paper. The author himself tells us that Iceland is 600 

 miles from western Europe, that is, from Scandinavia and Britain, but 

 only "'60 miles from the ice-bound coast of .Greenland." 



The " List of Icelandic Plants not Natives of Britain" includes 62 

 names. It appears to have been rather hastily copied out, as it enu- 

 merates two which are natives in Britain, and omits several which are 

 not natives of this island, if Professor Babington's own ' Manual of 

 British Botany' is to be received in evidence. Thus, it is strange to 

 see the author of that ' Manual ' placing Draha muralls and Sedum 

 villosum among plants which are " not natives of Britain." To the 

 following nine names, all excluded from the list of non-British plants 

 (and thus treated as if all belonging to plants certainly native to this 

 country), we wnll add tiie evidences afforded by the most recent edition 

 of the 'Manual': — ArchanrjeUca officmaUs, "not a native;" Petice- 

 dannm OstrutJiium, possibly introduced [sign of] ; Caritm Carui, 

 little or no claim [enclosure for] ; and Jntennaria alpina, Salix glanca, 

 L., " not of Sm.," Kobresia scirpina, Carex microglochin, C. chordor- 

 rldza, C. loliacea not in the ' Manual.' We leave the Professor himself 

 to reconcile the 'Eevision' and ' Manual' one with the other. 



The Faroe group is a halfway habitat between Scotland and Ice- 

 land, wanting the snow-clad mountains of the latter. . Few only of the 

 62 (or 69) Icelandic plants which are non-British extend to Faroe. 

 Rammcidus glacialis, R. nivalis, Arabis alpina, Kcenigia islandica, 

 Salix glauca, Kobresia scirpina, are included in the list of Faroe plants, 

 as given by Professor Martins ; with tw^o or three others which are 

 neither British nor Icelandic. As enumerated in the list by Professor 

 Martins, the plants of Faroe amount to 293 ; the total surface of the 

 islets being far less than that of Iceland. 



The Greenland flora also is small, by comparison with the flora of 

 Iceland, notwithstanding the wide extent of that dreary land, reaching 

 southward to the latitude of the Shetland Isles ; thus being in imme- 



