206 REY. .F. As WALKER, D.D,, F.L.S.,° ETC., 
150 species, that in one or the other of the published works 
have been recorded as Icelandic from Kénig and Muller in 
1770 to the present time. The first record of an Icelandic 
plant seems to be in 1597 in Gerarde’s Herball, p. 847, where 
Archangelica officinalis is recorded as from Iceland. This 
seems to be before any Icelandic record; the earliest of these 
seems to be in 1676 (fide Frideriksson in Copenhagen, 
Botanical Society’s publications) m Preesterne Jon Dadason’s 
Laighsgen, 1676. 
The two most reliable lists of Icelandic plants are 
Professor Babington’s “ Revision of the Flora of Iceland” in 
the journal of the Linnean Society, and Groenlund’s “ Islands 
Flora” (1881) Copenhagen. 
The latest knowledge of the flora is to be found in the 
publications of the Copenhagen Botanical Society. 
There is no full published list of all the works known to 
relate to the botany of Iceland; the Icelandic capital, the 
Advocate’s Library at Edinburgh, British Museum, and library 
of the Museum at Copenhagen, are the richest in books. The 
island of Jan Mayen to the north of Iceland has only 
27 flowering plants known from it. 
The coast of Greenland opposite Iceland is very barren, 
and plant life very scarce; taking the part opposite Iceland, 
and calling it mid-east Greenland, only 113 flowering plants 
are recorded (while on the opposite east coast 262 are named), 
the north part of east Greenland has only 100 plants recorded, 
while tne southern portion has 160. | Another list of species 
from Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and the Faroe Isles differs 
slightly in excess of that recorded above, and is as 
follows :— 
Nova Zembla has 131 species. 
Spitzbergen aga fc eepaeery 
The Faroe Isles. ,,-. 328° %, 
How do the statistics of 428 species, beg all that are 
certainly known to occur in Iceland, agree with the number 
of plants recorded by other travellers? At the end of Baring 
Gould’s book, no fewer than 477 kinds are mentioned, and 
Sir William Hooker, if I recollect rightly, is the authority for 
many of the names, while in Paijkull’s work are enumerated 
413. Personally, I have not sufficient knowledge for deter- 
mining whether all Baring Gould’s and Paijkull’s species are 
ascertained beyond the possibility of doubt or mistake. As 
the principal object on the part of Staudinger in 1856, as well 
as of myself last year, was the study of the entomology of 
