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in the Færoes; she has collecled many planls in Ihe different is- 

 lands, especially in the Nordreoer. A member of the teaching staff 

 of the Highschool at Fagralid on Bordo, Mr. R. Rasmussen is 

 an eager and successful botanical explorer; he has investigated some 

 parts of Bordo, Kuno and Kalso very thoroughly. Further I may men- 

 tion one inhabitant more, Mr. Gazet Patursson, who has found 

 many interesting piants especially in the southern part of Stromo. 



In 1903 I visited the islands again and studied the vegetation 

 in the neighbourhood of Thorshavn (Slromo), but the floristic result 

 was very poor, because this place is most often visited. 



In the literature after 1900 I have found only one book, in which 

 there are remarks on the Faeroese flora, viz. W. Bisiker: Across 

 Iceland, With illustrations and maps and an appendix by A.W. Hill 

 on the piants collected. London (E. Arnold), 1902. The Appendix II 

 (pp. 226 — 231) to this book is »a list of piants collected in the Faroes 

 and Iceland in June and July 1900«. The piaces in the Færoes vi- 

 sited by the authors are Trangisvaag (Sydero), Thorshavn (Stromo) 

 and Klaksvig (Bordo), just the ordinary stopping-places on the way 

 to Iceland, and all visited and investigated by many botanists be- 

 fore. The list gives most of the plant-names without indication of 

 which of the three piaces is the locality, only »Faroes« is added to the 

 name, and it contains both Icelandic and Færoese species together. 

 All this makes it probable, that the records of Draba verna, Viola 

 ericetorum (= V. canina), Dryas octopetala, Geiim rivale and Galiiim 

 uliginosum are incorrect, as none of these species have been found 

 before in any of the three visited piaces, and Draba verna and Viola 

 canina are not elsewhere recorded from the Færoes. All these spe- 

 cies are not rare in Iceland. I therefore consider the records as 

 incorrect and do not take them up in my list. 



It remains only to refer to the paper by Mr. H. Dahl stedt 

 on the Færoese Hieracia^. He describes herein all the species found 

 in the Færoes as new. A good many of them I refound in 1903 

 and was able to determine correctly, as shown by a later revision 

 of my material by Mr. Dahlstedt. 



I take here the opportunity of thanking Miss Elisabeth Tay- 

 lor, Mr. G. Patursson and Mr. R. Rasmussen for their valuable 

 contributions to the flora, and Mr. H. Dahlstedt and Mr. W. Becker 

 for assistance with regard to the Taraxaca, Hieracia and Violæ. I 

 also wish to give my hest thanks to Mr. W. H. Beeby for his kind 



1 See Vol. II, pp. 625— (559, pi. XI— XII. 



