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settling down at the bottom of the sen. In contradistinctioD to the 

 Færoes the Norwegian sea has a wide stretch of coast: — the west 

 coast of Norway and the east coast of [celand, where there are ex- 

 cellent conditions for a rich neritic planklon, while almost all the 

 oceanic forms must pass the Færoes in order to reach the Nor- 

 wegian Sea and intermingle with ils neritic forms. 



Table X shows besides that the proportion between the horeal 

 and the temperate forms is almost the same in holh the areas. 



These short noles mav possibly have shown that owing to the 

 gatherings of later years we have attained lo a fairly good know- 

 ledge of the marine phytoplankton of the Færoes, hul there is as 

 vel mnch on which no light has been thrown, and besides it should 

 be noted that the Færoes afford an excéptionally favonr- 

 ablc station for the study of the living plankton, as there 

 a r e fe w p 1 a e e s w h e r e w e h a v e the o e e a n so a v a i 1 a b 1 e as 

 in those is land s. 



Botanv dI the Pter&es. 



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