330 SOME PLANTS COLLECTED IN NORWAY AND LAPLAND. 
crossed Lapland to Haparanda, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Indepen- 
dently of our being pressed for time, a great part of the country tra- 
versed was low and swampy, with a monotonous vegetation. 
I have only enumerated the more interesting Phaenogams, but liave 
given the list of Lichens entire, in order to compare with Dr. Lindsay's 
" Contributions to the Lichen-flora of Northern Europe," published in 
the Journal of Linnean Society, nos. 38 and 39, 1866-1867. In this 
paper Dr. Lindsay observes, "The British Lichen-flora is considerably 
poorer than that of the Scandinavian peninsula." But Dr. Lindsay 
relies on a comparison between Mudd's ' Manual ' and Nylander's 
' Lichenes Scandinavise, 5 — works of very unequal merit, as he, however, 
observes. My experience leads me to a different conclusion. Since 
Mudd published, at least 100 new British Lichens have been found by 
Admiral Jones and myself alone, without taking into account what 
Mr. Mudd himself, Mr. Leighton, and others may have been doing. 
And whereas there is, as I have already observed, a good deal of uni- 
formity in the Lichen-flora of Scandinavia, especially in the northern 
regions, there is a very great variety to be found in the different pro- 
vinces of Great Britain and Ireland, and further researches will pro- 
bably add largely to the number of species already known. I am of 
opinion, that if the Lichen-flora of the British Islands were properly 
studied, we should number as many forms as can be found in Scan- 
dinavia. 
Ranunculus glacialis, L. — Mountain over Nystuen, Bomsdal, very 
sparingly. 
R. nivalis, L. — In Tromsdal, and on the mountains over Kaafjord, 
plentiful at the snow line. 
R. pygmceus, Wahl. — Tromsdal. 
R. reptanSy L. — Low grounds about Bosekop and Kautokeino. This 
is like a very much reduced form of R. Flammula, L., with filiform 
leaves, and stems prostrate .arid sometimes rooting at the joints. 
Aconitum Lycoctonum, L., var. septentrionale, Willd. — Gudbrandsdal, 
plentiful. 
Arabis hirsuta, Br.— Kaafjord, almost in 70° N. Bentham says of 
this plant, w not in high northern latitudes," but Wahlenberg includes 
it in his ' Flora Lapponica ' as occurring rarely in southern Nordland. 
A. alpina, L, — High mountains, Tromsdal. 
Cardamine bellid'folia, L. — Tromsdal. 
