PHANEROGAMAE AND PTERIDOPHYTA. 



BY 



C. H. OSTENFELD. 



The vascular piants of the Færoes have often been made a 

 subject of study, and as far as these piants are concerned, 

 the istands may be said to be well-known, so that it will hardly 

 be possible in the future to add anything considerable to the Flora. 



The principal paper on the vascular piants is Rostrups »Fær- 

 oernes Flora«, published in 1870, which gives the results of a 

 journey made in 1867 for the purpose of investigation by Mr. E. Ro- 

 strup and Mr. C. A. Feilberg. As the previous literature of the subject 

 was fully dealt with in the above-named paper, 1 need only add 

 that the earlier informations concerning this flora is to be found 

 in Horneman's »Plantelære« (second edition), in Landt's »Forsøg 

 til en Beskrivelse over F'ærøerne«, and in Treuelyan's and Ch. Martins's 

 papers. Since the publication of Rostrup's paper only a few minor 

 additions have been made — of which I have given an account 

 in my earlier writings — viz. by Melvill, Kurtz and Simmons and 

 by me in my three preliminary lists. (See Historical Notes pp. 1 — 5). 



In writing this work, I have had at my disposal a very rich 

 material from the Museum of the Botanical Gardens of the Uni- 

 versity, Copenhagen. The latter contains the greater part oi Lijng- 

 bye's collection, so that I have been able to correct the statements 

 in Horneman's »Plantelære«; some species gathered by Treve- 

 Iijan, and the whole of the considerable collection made by Rostrup 

 and Feilberg is also to be found there. I have further had access 

 to the most interesting portion of Kurtz's and Simmons's find; 

 hence I have been able to revise almost all the earlier publications. 

 But by far the greater part of the collections from the Færoes is 

 of recent date, and were collected by Professor Warming, Mr. Bor- 

 gesen, Mr, Jensen and Lieutenant Lomholt, but chiefly on my own 



