182 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE FEROES. 
acris; the sma - John’s wort 
the heath bedstraw (Galium saxatile), and 
shoes. On damp rocky ground near 
ing the ordinary sheep- 
ide, in Osteroe, we 
noticed the pretty little crimson stonecrop (Sedum villosum). 
The starry saxifrage (Savifraya stellaris) grows by tiny rills; and 
Bartsia alpina was gathered beside a arger stream above Siov, 
Kollefiord, Stromoe, where too we saw fair-sized fronds of lady- 
fern (Athyrium Filix-femina) 
Where the lines of rock at the base of each successive slope 
form cliffs at various heights along the hills, or some little ravine 
orrel (Oxyria reniformis), and also, upon ston ground on Naalsoe, 
a pretty little alpine saxifrage (Saaifraga hypnoides) with delicate 
white flowers. 
Odnadalstind (2400 feet), on the Kollefiord, the only mountain 
e asce of i i 
n » Was € scene 
centred, solitary flower; but on examinati 
purple specks proved to be the cluster of blo 
pale bracts. Higher was the short thick al 
podium Selago), alpine chickweed (Cerastium 
more interesting plant-finds. 
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latifolium); a kind of 
seurvy-grass, probably Cochlearia arctica ; an alpine form of thrift 
or 
gathered the following summer, by one of the writers, on another 
he mountain at the same altitude. 
With more leisure for a search, the low-lying islet, Kirkeboe- 
holm, might have yielded uncommon plants; but in our brief visit, 
we no’ nothing but Angelica Archangelica and Lychnis diurna, 
on 
