152 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
accumulate on the upper surface of the cell, and change their position in - 
case the frustule is turned upside down. 
SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
FLona or SPrrzBERGEN.—In the Swedish * Ofversigt af Kongl. Vet.— 
Akad. Fórhandlinger? for 1869, Th. M. Fries has published a supplemeut 
to Dr. Malmgren's * Flora of Spitzbergen,” printed in the same periodical 
for des ug: translated in our pages (Vol. II. pp. 130—147, and 162- 
Pallasii, Schlechtendal, *R ens Ca 
* Koenigia islandica, L., Betula nana, L., var. B. relicta, Th. Fr., Eriophorum 
angustifolium, Roth, var. B. triste, Th 
W., C. lagopina, Wahlenb., C. incurva, Lightf., C. dioica, L., var. D. 
parallela, t., Loa alpina, L., P. cwsia, Sm., Catabrosa concinna, Th. 
I Sp. nov. (with a sub-species C. vacillans, Th. F.) and Hierochloe alpina, 
of D. pauciflora goes, it precisely agrees with the figure 
hin th } P. 6i 4 pecimens, 
which it is to be hoped Dr. Fries will, from his examination 0 e^ r 
during his recent visit to England, be able to reduce to the 
proper position of synonyms. 
FLonA or Bear IstAND.— Dr. Th. Fries has also given a list of hs 
phan s of Bear Island, which lies between Spitzbergen and the nort 
nost of Norway, between lat. 74° and 75° N. This little islet u 
of 36 Species, of which four, Rhodiola rosea, L., doden 
lapponicum, Wahlenb., Salix herbacea, L., and Luzula arcuata, Wahlen? 
var. a., do not occur in Sj - found in Not 
Scandinavia. Spitzbergen, though all are 
*These two Species were added to Malmgren’s list in this Journal (l. ¢., PP» 
135, 146) on the authority of Prof. 0. Torell, of ra is 
