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hujher moutains of Greal Brildin and also in Ihe higher regions of 

 llw Alps and of Ihe other Central-Enropean montains. By Tempe- 

 ra te European I understand Ihe species ivhich ave now dispersed 

 over Ihe sonthern and low-hjing parts of Scandinavia, and from the 

 Raltic to the Alps. Lastly, the term Atlantic enibraces the species 

 which extend along the western coast of Enrope, i. e. from western 

 Norwag to the Pyrenean Peninsnla. In the hst of the Færoese 

 species given at pp. 101 — 103 the names of the Athintic species are 

 printed in small capitals, those of the Arctic species in italics, and 

 those of the temperate European species in ordinary types. 



The flora consists of these three floristic components. It is 

 not ahvays easy to decide in which category each species should 

 be placed, and it must after all be a matter af judgement. I have, 

 however, chiefly followed the opinion expressed by O. DahP — 

 Blytt's successor in studies of plant distribution in Norway — in 

 his different phyto-geographical papers and I have arrived at the 

 conclusion that of the 277 spontaneous species of the Færoes, 

 70 are Arctic, 164 Temperate European and 43 Atlantic. 

 That is, more than one half (V12) are Temperate European and 

 widely-spread species, while the Arctic element constitutes about V4 

 and the Atlantic about Ve. If we compare them with the other 

 northern countries, making allowances for their isolated situation 

 so far to the north-west, we find that the former are unusually 

 rich {^/i) in Temperate European and Atlantic species. The large 

 quantity of Temperate European species show that the flora must 

 be regarded as belonging to the woody districts of Temperate Enrope, 

 though trees are quite absent, while the relatively considerable At- 

 lantic element indicates that, cmiong these woody districts it is most 

 closely related to the northern part of Great Britain. The Færoes 

 are not mentioned in Drude' s^ book on phyto-geography, but he 

 remarks in it (p. 370) that in south-western Norway, species from 

 mountain regions nieet with Atlantic species, while with this ex- 

 ception these two classes are separated by the Scandinavian woody 

 region (the pine region). This is also the case in the Færoes, and 



^ O. Dahl: Plantegeografiske Undersøgelser i det indre af Romsdalsanit med 

 de tilstødende fjeldtrakter. I — II. (Det kongl norske Vidensk. Selsk. skrifter 

 1893 — 94, Trondhjem). Plantegeografiske undersøgelser i 3'dre Sondniore. 1894 (Chri- 

 stiania Videnskab Selskabs Forhandlinger 1895). K^stvegetationen i Homsdal, Nord- 

 og Sondfjord. 1896 (Ibidem. 1897). Botaniske undersøgelser i Sondfjords og Nord- 

 fjords Distrikter i 1896—97. (Ibidem. 1898). 



^ O. Drude: Handbuch der Pfanzengeographie. Stuttgart, ]8i)0. 



