FLORA OF THE FAROE ISLANDS. 



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with Forchhammer.* In this catalogue are 263 Phanerogams, 

 of which on revision 231 may be accepted with certainty as true 

 natives, and 183 Cryptogams excluding Algae, some of which also 

 have to be eliminated. With the 127 Algae quoted from Lyngbye's 

 ** Hydrophytologia," Trevelyan's list is brought up to 573 (by a mis- 

 take he speaks of the total number [p. 5] as 583). The principal 

 more recent work is Ch. Martins' '' Essai sur la Vegetation de I'Archi- 

 pel de Feroe." Martins accompanied the corvette La Recherche^ 

 and stayed at Torshaven from 25th to 30th June, 1839, making ex- 

 cursions to the neighbouring islands and to Nolsoe. His list consists 

 of 272 Phanerogams (but has to be reduced to 230, many varieties 

 being reckoned as species and several species being given twice under 

 different names) and 21 Cryptogams. It is mainly a reprint of Tre- 

 velyan's list, with a few (mostly doubtful) additions, Cardamine impa- 

 tiens, Lepidium alpinum, Pinguicula alpina, Orchis sambucina, and 

 Carex atrata, plants which if found before or since cannot be accepted 

 on Martins' authority as growing near Torshaven, the spot of all 

 others the best known botanically, Martins' most important work 

 was the comparison of the Floras of the Faroes, the Shetlands, and 

 Iceland, with an attempt to trace their general derivation. 



The following list contains 331 species of Phanerogams and 25 

 of vascular Cryptogams. The original paper contains also the cel- 

 lular Cryptogams. The names in italics have not been previously 

 recorded from the Faroe Islands. The ? is placed before some species 

 the occurrence of which in the islands is doubtful, resting solely upon 

 the authority of the older writers. The sign f signifies that the 

 species is supposed to be an escape or introduced with foreign seed. 

 Omitting the cultivated species and those marked with a query the 

 Phanerogams are reduced to 311 species ; and if the probably intro- 

 duced species be also taken away the number is brought down to 296. 

 A large number of varieties are also recorded in the following 

 catalogue. 



The sequence of the Orders has been altered from the little familiar 

 one in use in Scandinavia to that generally employed by English 

 botanists, in order to facilitate comparison with other lists. 



Eanunculaceae. 



Thalictrum alpinum, L. 

 Ficaria ranunculoides, Roth. 

 Ranunculus glacialis, L. 

 ?R. nivalis, L. 

 R. repens, L. 



,, f. alpina. 

 R. acris, L. 



,, var. pumila, Wahlenh. 

 R. auricomus, L. 

 R. Philonotis, Ehrh. 

 R. Flammula, L. 

 R. reptans, L. 



Caltha palustris, L. 

 Papaveraceae. 



Papaver nudicaule, L. 

 Cruciferaa. 



Cardamine pratensis, L. 



„ var. speciosa, Hartm. 



C. amara, L. 



C. sylvatica. Link. 



C. impatiens, L. 



Arabis petraea, (Z.) Lam. a. 

 glabrata, and 3. hispida, DC. 



A. alpina, L. 



Draba incana, L. 



* Trevelyan's Faroe plants are now in the Kew Herbarium. 



