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this practice affords very satisfactory results, as in the hands of 

 Mr. John Roy, sen., nurseryman, and the Rev. Mr. Beverly.* 



J^quisetacecB. 



Eqiiisetum arvense, L. — Only seen barren. Alt., Coast to 500 

 feet. E., Disco, Dark Head, Wilcox Point. W., Cumberland 

 Gulf, Scott's Bay. 



E. variegatum, Schleich. — Only seen barren. Alt., 100 feet. 

 Soil, granitic. W., Inland from Cape Searle. 



Lycopodiacecr. 



Lycopodium annotinum, L. — Aug, Only seen once, and at an 

 elevation of 200 ft. \V., North side of Winter Harbour, Kingnite, 

 in Cumberland Gulf. 



L, alpinuniy L. — Coast to snow-line ; seen in all parts of these 

 regions visited by me. Common on both sides. 



XXXII. — Mr. John Sadler's List of Arctic Cryptogamic 

 and other Plants, collected by Robert Brown, Esq., 

 during the Summer of 1861, on the Islands of 

 Greenland, in Baffin's Bay and Davis' Strait, and 

 presented to the Herbarium of the Botanical So- 

 ciety. 



[Reprinted, by Permission, from the Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin- 

 burgh, vol. vii., 1862, pp. 374-5.] 



No. 1. Collected on the liig Duck Island and Duck Islands^ 

 Baffin's Bay, June 8-11, 1861. 



Stereocaulon paschale. Lecanora tartarea. 



Cladonia uucialis. L. ventosa. 



C. papillaria. Gyrophora hirsuta. 



Cetraria Islandica. Cornicularia ochroleuca. 



C. nivalis. C. bicolor. 



Parmelia parietina var. Pogonatum alpiuum. 



P. saxatilis. Bryum casspiticium. 



P. omphalodes. Hypnum aduncum. 

 P. conspersa. 



* Among the Arctic Ferns brought home by me, and reared by Mr. Beverly, 

 were found last year several plants of one -which he, and several others who- 

 examined it, suspected to belong to this species. They were led to this 

 suspicion by observing the form and habit of the fronds, and especially the 

 nature cf the rhizome, which spreads more widely, and throws up its small 

 tufts of upright fronds at greater intervals than C. fragilis. Just now (June 

 1862) the plants are in good condition, but the fronds seem not quite so like 

 those of C. alpina as they were last year. Though this Fern is evidently 

 different from the common forms of C. fragilis, and in several respects 

 approaches the so-called C tc7iuis, in others C. alpina, it may perhaps prove 

 to be only an extreme form of C. fragilis. But it shall be carefully watched 

 as it grows, in order to fix its identity. At all events, in its present form, if 

 it is not C. alpina, it is intermediate between that species aud C. fragilis, and 

 as worthy of being raised to the rank of a separate species, as many other 

 varieties that have been so treated. 



