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' lections of the brothers Nylander and M. Tengstrom. After this 

 the collection has grown " day by day to the great satisfaction of 

 all friends of the study of the Natural History of Finland." In 

 1870 the Society appointed a committee of six members to draw up 

 divisions, and reconstruct the map of 1859. 



This present one differs from that of 1859, insomuch that the 

 greater part of East Finmark is excluded, and the boundary on the 

 east made to follow the rivers Muonio and Tornea, the political 

 boundary dividing Finland from Scandinavia. 



It had been determined by the Society to publish a complete 

 catalogue of the plants of Finland ; but the vasculares being fully 

 worked up, the cryptogamic part is reserved for some future time. 

 The various groups have been elaborated by different authors, 

 notably the Hieracia by Norllin. Following the historical account 

 is a chronological one of the plant-discoveries and discoverers from 

 1859 to 1889. A list of contributors under the various provinces, 

 with a synopsis of the arrangement followed (that of Eichler in his 

 ' Syllabus der Vorlesungen iiber specielle und medicinsch-pharma- 

 ceutische Botanik '); this commences with the EquisetacecB and ends 

 with the Composite^. 



What may be called the Flora foUows ; the distribution is shown 

 by the first letters of the twenty-nine botanical provinces adopted. 

 These are given in an irregular parallelogram, with the names of 

 the species placed under, the absence of a species for a given 

 province being indicated by a dot. The plants of that portion of 

 Swedish Lapland (here called Lapponia Enontekiensis) immediately 

 adjoining is also shown, but outside the line ; twelve of these are 

 placed on a page, and this occupies 121 pages of the book. A 

 somewhat similar plan was lately used to show the distribution of 

 the Carices of Holland, but small maps were used with crosses 

 indicating where the species had occurred. 



In the same sequence some of the rarer plants are given with 

 localities, accompanied by remarks, new forms, &c. ; among the 

 genera that are specially worked up may be named Betula and 

 Polygonum. Eight pages are then occupied with descriptions of 

 new species, sujjspecies, and varieties of the genus Hieracium, 

 though a few of these had been previously so treated in Hjelt's and 

 Hult's 'Vegetation Kemi Lappmark' and Norllin's 'Bidrag. Skand. 

 Hier.' Lastly, there is an index of genera and two maps. 



The fourteen ancient provinces are divided into twenty-nine 

 botanical districts founded on some natural basis, or some uni- 

 formity in the vegetation, and named after some local or geo- 

 graphical peculiarity — such as Lapponia kemensis, Karelia onegensis, 

 Ostrobottnia borealis, &c. ; these are excellently shown in the large 

 map accompanying the Catalogue, while the small map acts as a 

 key to the other. Finland, as here understood, has its eastern 

 boundary in the Gulf of Bothnia, northward continued by the 

 boundary of Norway and Sweden, the coast of the Arctic Sea, round 

 to that of the White Sea, the Une taken including the group of 

 islands off Cape Onega ; touching the land again at the outlet of 

 the Biver Wig, bending round to the west side of Lake Onega, 



