ON THE BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY OF ICELAND. 207 
the country, it will readily be understood that his list of the 
island flora is a comparatively short one, and my own also. 
His consists of 76 kinds, and mine, on the most moderate 
computation, of 82. The only facts probably that I have 
been able to add to the existing kuowledge of Icelandic 
botany are as follows :— 
(1.) The discovery of Dancus carota, Z., small form new 
to Iceland, and a considerable extension of its northern limit 
in Europe just known from Norway, N. Sweden, Finland, or 
N. Russia. Judging by the specimen, it is evidently wild 
(z.2., indigenous), as the plant has not the look or habit of a 
cultivated species. 
(2.) I gathered the second speciraen of Orchis latifolia 
found in Iceland, and the first is said to be only doubtfully 
recorded. 
A large proportion of Icelandic plants, and some of them 
both very common and generally distributed, are either 
alpine, moor, or marsh species, these being the three prevailing 
features of the country. Fore example— 
Alpine, as Moor, as 
Erigeron alpinum. Vaccinium uliginosum. 
Saxifraga hypnoides. Parnassia palustris. 
ft stellaris. Dryas octopetala. 
$5 aizoides. Thymus serpyllum, 
Gentiana nivalis. 
- campestris. 
Or, Marsh, as 
Pinguicula vulgaris. 
Eriophorus Scheuchzeri. 
angustifolium. 
Menyanthes trifoliata, 
Caltha en-palustris. 
As instances of plants generally distributed in Iceland 
may be mentioned—: 
Armeria maritima. Silene acaulis. 
Dryas octopetala. Pinguicula vulgaris. 
Cerastium alpinum Thymus serpyllun. 
Of plants very plentiful in certain places, as between 
Thingvellir and the Geysir— 
Lychnis alpina. Platanthera hyperborea. 
Geranium sylvestre. Orchis maculata. 
Of plants very plentiful in 8.W. of Iceland particularly — 
Ranunculus glacialis. Matricaria inodora. 
