PHANEROGAMIC FLORA OF SPITZBERGEN. 131 
^ Martens and Solander were the only authorities for the Spitzbergen 
flora. In 1820, R. Brown, in the appendix to Scoresby’s * Account of 
the Arctic Regions, published a catalogue of the plants brought by 
Scoresby from Spitzbergen, which contained 30 species of Cryptoga- 
mia and 14 of Phanerogamia. In the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society of London, vol. xiv. pp. 360-394, W. J. Hooker, in an ac- 
count of the arctic plants collected by E. Sabine in 1823, records 24 
species of Phanerogamia and 2 of Cryptogamia. Five years later, in 
1828, the same author published, iu an appendix to Parry’s * Nar- 
rative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, 1827, a list of the 
plants colleeted by that navigator on the most northern coasts and 
in the small islands of Spitzbergen. This list contains 40-species of 
Phanerogamia and 50 of Cryptogamia, gathered about lat. 80? N., and 
accurately records their habitats. It is remarkable that this catalogue 
has been quite overlooked by the later writers on Spitzbergen. 
Chr. Sommerfelt published in the ‘ Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne,’ 
Christiania, 1833, a paper on the flora of Spitzbergen and Bear Is- 
land, from plants collected by Keilhau, which is interesting, as it gives 
an idea, though faint and incomplete, of the vegetation of the southern 
coast of Spitzbergen and Stans Foreland,—hitherto all knowledge of the 
flora having been almost confined to the northern part of the island. 
C. Martins, a member of the French Northern Expedition, gives a 
list of the plants he found, in 1839; at Bellsund and Magdalena Bay, 
in a note to his Glaciers of Spitzbergen, published in the Biblioth. 
Univers. de Geneve, vol. xxviii. p. 139. He enumerates 57 species; 
55 are from Bellsund and 24 from Magdalena Bay. Dr. J. Vahl, an- 
other member of the same expedition, communicated a list of the 
plants he collected to Alexis Lindblom, of Lund, who, from it and the 
published lists of Phipps, Scorésby, Sabine, and Keilhau, prepared 
a Flora of Spitzbergen and Bear Island, which was published in his 
‘ Botaniska Notiser? for 1839-40, pp. 158-158. A second edition 
of this was published in the ‘ Flora,’ 1842, pp. 481-493, by Dr. 
Beilschmied, who added some new species; but neither author was 
acquainted with the list in Parry’s Narrative. The number of 
plants given by them is also erroneous, as they have entered many 
synonyms as separate species. Thus Cochlearia fenestrata, so common 
in Spitzbergen, has no less than five names, Luzula hyperborea three, 
Stellaria Edwardsii and Alsine biflora two, and so on. — 
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