THE FLOWERS OF KOLGUEV 397 
for examples, Delphinium elatum and Dianthus superbus (which reaches 
through Arctic Europe and Asia to Japan); to the latter class, among 
others, Valeriana capitata and Primula stricta. 
Although, as was to have been expected in the case of an island only 
fifty miles from the coast of Arctic Europe, the floral affinities of Kolguev 
are with the mainland, yet there are some exceptions, which seem to me 
worth noticing. 
Tam glad to take this opportunity of thanking the following members of 
the British Museum Staff for careful comparison of my plants with the type- 
forms in that collection, and for much trouble in identification—Mr. James 
Britten, Mr. Antony Gepp, Mr. E. G. Baker, and Mr. A. B. Rendle. 
I find three instances of boreal plants which appear not to have been 
recorded from Arctic Russia—S¢ellaria Edwardsii, S. humifusa, and 
Antennaria carpathica. Both of these are said to be found on 
Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemblya.!_ Finally, the apparent absence from 
Kolguev of such well-known northern forms as Saxdfraga oppositifolia, 
Mertensia maritima, and the beautiful azalea-like Ledum palustre (L. 
dilatatum Ait.), so striking a feature of the tundra, is at least remarkable. 
Since my return to this country I have been carefully through the list 
of plants collected in Kolguev by Dr. Ruprecht. They will be found 
in a work by him entitled Flores Samoyedorum cisuralensium.? The 
work he accomplished during his short visit to Kolguev was admirable. 
He collected flowering plants only. It was inevitable that he should 
miss several of the plants which I have in my own collection, but, on 
the other hand, he records several which I did not see. Dr. Ruprecht 
defined as species certain plants which are now only regarded as 
climatic varieties (e.g. he described and figured as new species no less 
than seven forms of Foz). But of those which I believe to be accepted 
as species, and which do not appear in my list, I give the following, as 
a tribute to his work, and with the idea of making the Kolguev list more 
complete, and therefore more useful to others :— 
Ranunculus lapponicus L. 
R. Samoyedorum Rupr. 
Aconitum septentrionale Willd. 
1 Cf. Nyman’s Conspectus. 
2 Bettrage zur Phlangenkunde der russischen Reiches. St. Petersburg, 1845. 
