184 NOTES ON THE FLORA OP THE FHROES. 
botanists have ever visited these islands. Nearly sixty aio a 
Sir W. C. Trevelyan wrote on the subject, ‘‘ On the Vegetatio 
Temperature of the Farée Islands,” Edinburgh New Piiosophica 
Journal, January, 1835, followed by a reprint, with additions and 
corrections, 1837, since which time but little was published ‘t on this 
flora till E. Rostrup’s more ample catalogue, 1870; and during 
the past fifteen or twenty years one or two plants only, notably 
Erica Tetralix (L.) from Sideroe, collected by Mr. Backhouse in 
Sept., 1884, hava been added. ‘The following catalogue contains 
nearly a third of the plants known to occur in the meen sone Oo 
which, so early in the year as June, could not be flowering, and 
ote Sep were left ungathered. My best thanks neh due to 
tions for my herbarium, and also to Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., 
for eel giving his opinion on one or two of the few critical 
spec 
Ranunculacee. Polygalacee. 
Thalictrum alpinum L. Polygala vulgaris L. 
Ranunculus acris L. Hypericacea. 
R. acris L., var. pumilus. nen pulchrum L. 
R. glacialis L. Gerani 
. Flammula L. Geranium sylvaticum L. 
R. repens L. 
Caltha er L.—Obs. The sek. Pseudo- platanus L. — 
Caltha very luxuriant and Planted only. 
fine E gach with deep Leguminacea. 
crimson petals. Lotus corniculatus L. 
Cruciferae Se pratense L. 
Arahis ‘ro L. — Variable ; Rosea 
specimens almost ses- Alchemilla aes L. 
A. vu 
hes pratensis L. Potentilla Anirion L. 
Cochlearia arctica DC. P. Tormentilla Sco 
_C, Danica L. Pyrus Sitesi L.—This last 
C. officinalis L. not indigen 
ortulacacea, Saxifragea. 
— fontana L. Saxifraga cespitosa L. 
Viola 8. grenlandica L. 
Viola a sylvatica L. 8. hypnoides L. 
Y. palustris L. 8. stellaris L. 
Car yophylle. §. cxspitosa L., occurs in two 
Silene acaulis L., var. exscapa. forms: one smooth, the other 
jak nis Flos-Cuculi L. with downy leaves and foot- 
Melandrinm diurnum Sibth.  Crassulacea. [stal 
erastium triviale Gm., var. Rhodiola rosea L. 
alpestre Lindb. Sedum villosum L 
C. alpinum _ Umbellifera. 
C. latifolium Angelica Archangelica L. (A. 
Hoffm.). 
oy (Halianthus) peploides officinalis H 
Ligusticum Seoticum L, 
