354 ICELAND AND FAROE BOTANY. 



Plantcifjo media. Eeykholt, W. Saljiland S. 

 ■'■p. lanceolata ji. duhla Ascli. Selj aland S. 



Scdix ovata Ser. «. latifoUa Anderss. Berg Baula W. 

 '■^'•Carex jmlld f. (jracilescens Kurtz. 



The Faroes. 



*Ranunculus Flammula f. minor Kurtz. Syderoe ; Stromoe. 

 Perhaps the same as the plant found by Dr. Shoolbred in the 

 Hebrides. 



'^''Polygala vuhjaris y. yrandijiora Bab. = P. bu.vifolia Ball in 

 herb. = P. Bidlii Nyman, Comp. Fl. Europ. 83, 1878. Stromoe 

 and Syderoe. Apparently determined from the descriptions in 

 Babington's Manual and Juurn. But. 1877, 171. Such cases, 

 I think, are open to doubt ; a comparison of authentic specimens 

 is necessary. 



'^Viola sylvatica Fr. v. avenaria (DC. sp.). Stromoe. 

 Cerastiiun triciijnum Vill. Syderoe. 



Hypericum pidchrum f. pumila Kurtz. I should expect this to 

 prove the same as f. prociimbens Rostrup. 



'^Euphrasia ojfici7ialis v. latifolia Lauge. Stromoe ; Syderoe. 



■■'Myosotis stricta Link. 



'■'■ Pedicular is palustris f. pumila Kurtz. Syderoe. 



■■'• Plantayo maritima v. borealis Kurtz = P. borealis Lange. Stromoe. 

 But this is the P. maritima e. glauca Hornem, Oec. PI. 167, and so 

 already named as a variety. 



'■■ Potamogeton aJ pi mis Balhis. Stromoe. This is a notable addition 

 to the Faroen Flora. It occurs in Iceland !, Greenland !, but is not 

 recorded for the Shetlands or Orkneys, though found in several 

 stations in Caithness. In Norway it is found north to 70' 25' 

 (Norman, Index Siijip. loc. nat. 88, 1864); in Finland to 68° 30' 

 (Wainio, 'Sotca sur la Fl. Lap. Finland, 70, 1891). 



I believe I am correct in stating that Lieut. -Col. Feilden intends 

 to brino- out a work on the Fauna and Flora of these islands, and 

 in the latter several additions will be made to the known list of 

 species. 



It is remarkable that (so far as I know) not one of the " List of 

 Icelandic Plants requiring to be verified" that I gave in this Journal 

 for 1890, p. 82, seems to have been gathered ; all surely cannot be 

 errors, yet the majority are plants well known, not obscure or critical 

 species, which in that case might have been passed over. These 

 species numbered about ninety, a large number to be recorded on 

 seemingly such slender grounds ; in any future Flora of Iceland it 

 will be well to place all these in square brackets, or relegate them 

 to an appendix. 



Since the above was written, notices of Faroen plants have 

 appeared in the Botaniska Notiser for 1896, haft 2. 



