60 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



been deposited under the direction of the Secretary of State for 

 India in Council in the Ubrary of the herbarium of the Royal 

 Gardens. This very extensive collection will be intercalated with 

 the general collection of Icojies plantanim at Kew, which is certainly 

 the largest in existence, and which it will enormously enrich and 

 extend. The following is the India Office list of the separate col- 

 lections of which the whole is the aggregate: — Royle, Carey, and 

 others, 1791; Roxburgh, 171; Wight, 150; Craufurd and Prince, 

 23; Finlayson, -71; Colebrooke, 47; Buchanan, 87; Hamilton, 

 123; Horsiield, 59; Marsden, 48; Parry, 125; Mysore plants, 19; 

 Prince of Wales Island, 160; Madras School of Art, 4; Court, 89; 

 Chinese, 892, Total, 8359. 



Islands Flora. By Chr. Groenlund. Coi)enhagen, 1881. 



Following up his ' Revised List of Iceland Plants ' (Bot. 

 Tidski'ift, 1874-75, pp. 86-85, Dr. Groenlund has recently issued 

 a 'Flora of Iceland.' So far as one can judge, he does not seem 

 to have made use of Rottboll's paper (1766-67), noticed by Dr. 

 Trimen in this Journal for 1870 (pp. 277-279). Thus he does not 

 notice Stellaria hiDnifusa, Rottb., which, as Dr. Trimen remarks, 

 " was founded on Icelandic specimens, and is fully described by 

 Rottboll." The ' Revised List ' contained 342 species of flowering 

 plants and ferns; the present ' Flora ' has 357 species, an addition of 

 fifteen species (given as sixteen by Groenlund). Some of these 

 were accepted by Babington, but doubted in the * Revised List,' 

 and are now numbered as new. The following are the main 

 points in which this present ' Flora' differs from the ' Revised List,' 

 and Prof. Babington's paper in the Journal of the Linnean Society 

 (xi. pp. 280-848) : — Siiiajjis arvensis, L. (not numbered by Babing- 

 ton), is accepted in 'Revised List,' and retained in the 'Flora.' 

 Erysimum hleraclfoJium, L., doubted in * Revised List,' now 

 accepted, as by Babington. Alsine verna, var. proinnqiia [Arenaria 

 propimjua, Richardson), is added. Cerastium arcticum, Lange, Fl. 

 Dan. 2693, is given; and C. latifolium, L., is expunged. Fragaria 

 collina, Ehrh., is retained {cf. Bab.) Saxifraga decipiens, Ehrh., is 

 given instead of S. caspitosa, L., of 'Revised List,' but as a 

 synonym. If the plant cultivated at Kew as decipiens is the true 

 plant, it can hardly be the same as the Scottish (Ben Avon) speci- 

 mens, considered true ca:spitosa by Dr. Boswell and Mr. J. G. 

 Baker. Bellis perennis, L., is not in the 'Flora'; Babington 

 accepts it, and it is given from Iceland by Nyman. Matricaria 

 inodora, L., var. plmocephala, Rupr., is the name now given to the 

 var. borealis, Hartm., of the 'Revised List.' M. maritima, L. (of 

 Babington), is- not given. Carduus arvensis, L. (not admitted in 

 the ' Revised List '), is in the ' Flora.' Of Hieracium alpinum, L., a 

 var. h'ucotricha, Lange MS., is given. Gentiana serrata, Gunn, is 

 substituted for G. detonsa, Rottb. Laminni purpureum, L., accepted 

 by Babington, but doubted in the ' Revised List,' is now numbered 

 in the 'Flora.' Primula '' {stricta, Horn?)" doubted in the 

 • Revised List,' is accepted in the ' Flora,' with the reservation 



