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believe “s found math Se high on Odnadalstind and on low 
ground near Thors at we have no note of its exact 
eas. is y unforeaata as on our return to England this plant 
excited the interest of Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, who at once pro- 
nounced it Plantago maritima L., form pumila (Kjellman), and had 
lately read a paper before the Manchester Lit terary and Philoso- 
phical Society, recording for the first time its occurrence in Great 
in, on Ben Hope, in North-West Sutherlandshire, at an 
altitude of about 2,900 feet. ‘‘ This form,” says Mr. Melvill, ‘‘ of 
an abundant plant throughout our country, especially near the sea- 
individual the spares forming a rosette round the central root- 
ck. In the round flower spikes it resembles Plantago alpina 
Herbarium. Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., of Kew, observes that ial 
very similar form grows in Teesdale, on the sugar limestone of 
Widdy Bank Fell.” 
The Feroese have a great love of flowers, and very many of the 
little windows in Thorshayn are adorned with blossoming ae and 
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fuchsia plants. For the latter they have a name of 
hrist’—we have not elsewhere met with; an primroses, which 
grow out of doors, and were originally 
pride is taken in the gardens, where rhubarb, radishes, potatoes, 
turnips, currants, ee and angelica are the edible ae 
finds quite a number of more ornamental plants. 
monk’s-hood ip jneree Napellus), peony mia or oficinalis), 
soled pride (Saatfraga umbrosa), blue perenn cornflower (Cent- 
aurea montana), purple honesty (Lunaria biennis), pang ower 
Trollius europeus), bachelor’s buttons (Ranunculus oor iia 
pl., here known as _—_ buttons,” searle at Pop ——— 
LIST OF PLANTS OBTAINED BY THE ABOVE. 
By James Cosmo, Metviz, M.A., F.L.S. 
Tums collection, made at my request, and under considerable 
difficuties, though numbering only between eighty and ninety 
species, is of great interest, considering how very rarely British 
