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Original Articles. 
ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF ARCTIC PLANTS DURING 
THE POST-GLACIAL EPOCH. 
By Atrrep Narworst, or tae Gronogicat Survey or Swepen.* 
My first researches into the Arctic 
tiary deposits were made in 1870, wh 
871, and was so fortunate as to find the same leaves in similar deposits 
throughout the whole south-western part of Scania. Sometimes 
they occurred in such quantities as to form beds of peat in the 
Hypnum scorproides, Dill., H. fluitans, Dill., H. cupressiforme, Dill., 
Hf. callichroum, Brid., H. exannulatum, Gumb., H. cusprdatum, Dill., 
HI. erysophilum, H. Heufleri, H. stellatum, Schreb., tlsont, 
giganteum, Schimp., H. ochraceum, Turn., Thuidium _abietinum, 
Schimp., Au ton palustre, Schw., muralis, Timm., 
* The results of Mr. Nathorst’s investigations into the vegetable remains in 
the glacial beds ofj Europe were communicated to the Royal Academy of 
Sciences of Stockholm in April last by Prof. Torell. ‘We are indebted to Mr. 
Nathorst for the valuable summary of the important results of his labours 
printed here. The author had already communicated some of the faci Sir 
Charles Lyell, who, inthe last edition, just published, of his “‘ Antiquity of Man,’ 
refers to them in tracing the gradual changes in the climate of Britain from the 
cens, Arctic Moss in temperate latitudes on the extreme 
heights of the Alps. ”_Antiq. of Man, 1873, pp. 261, 262.—[ Hd. Journ. Bot.] 
N.S. VOL. 2 73.) Q 
