NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE FX ROES. 181 
he absence of trees is very striking. Four or five species 
of willow—one the small creeping Salix herbacea——and the dwarf 
) Ss. ew 
is chiefly juniper and birch. Ripe strawberries have been gathered 
services. 
The list of our discoveries in the enclosed fields about Thors- 
havn (the capital of the Feroes), with their numerous little water- 
profusion), cuckoo-flower (Cardamine pratensis), a g-cups or 
marsh marigolds (Caltha palustris), which almost fill the ¢ | 
in the lower meadows with uxuriance of flower and foliage. 
Many of these marigolds have extra petals; a cluster of three 
rs‘ each possessing seven and even eight petals, is not in- 
frequent. On the drier ground of little knolls, eyebright (Eu- 
phrasia officinalis), and the common lady’s mantle (Alchemilla 
vulgaris) occur, as well as A. alpina. At Eide, in Osteroe, we found 
a wild geranium, G. sylvaticum. 
Beyond the enclosed land, on the low slopes of hills, pasture of 
short grass and sedges stretches upwards, broken only by the rocky 
