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Floicering Plants of Spitzbergen, as given by M. diaries Martins. 



[The species printed in italics are found in Britain. Those marked with an 

 asterisk (*) are exclusively Arctic, and do not exist in Scandinavia.] 



Banunculus glacialis, L. ; E. hyperboreus, Eottb. ; E. pygniasus, 

 Wbg. ; E. nivalis, L. ; E. sulphureus, Sol.; *E. arcticus, Kichards; 

 Papaver mudicaule, L. ; Cardamine pratensis, L. ; C. bellidifolia, L. ; 

 Arabis alpina, L. ; *Parrya arctica, E. Br. ; Eutrema Edwardsii, E. 

 Br. ; *Braya purpurascens, E. Br. ; Draba alpina L. ; *D. glacialis, 

 A lams; *D. pauciflora? E. Br.; *D. niicropetala ? Hook.; D. nivalis, 

 Liljebl ; *D. arctica, Fl. Dan. ; *D. corymbosa, E. Br. ; D. rupestris, 

 E. Br. ; D. hirta, L. ; D. Wahlenbergii, Hartm. ; Cochlearia fenestrata, 

 E. Br. ; Silene acaulis, L. ; Wablbergella (Lychnis) apetala, Fr. ; W. 

 affinis, Fr. ; *Stellaria Edwardsii, E. Br. ; *S. huinifusa, Eottb. ; 

 Cerastium alpinum, L. ; Arenaria ciliata, L. ; *A. Eossii, E. Br. ; A. 

 biflora, L. ; Honkeneja peploides, Ebrb. ; Alsine lubella, Wbg. ; Sagina 

 nivalis, Fr. ; Dry as octopetala, L. ; *Potentilla pulchella, E. Br. ; P. 

 maculata, Pouit. ; P. nivea, L. ; *P. emarginata, Pursb. ; Saxifraga 

 bieraciifolia, Waldst. and Kit. ; S. nivalis, L. ; S. foliosa, E. Br. ; S. 

 oppositi folia, L. ; *S. flagellaris, Sternb. ; S. Hirculus, L. ; S. aizoides, 

 L. ; S. cernua, L. ; S. rivularis, L. ; S. cmspitosa, L ; (Jhrysosplenium 

 alternifolium var. tetrandrum, Tb. Fr. ; Arnica alpina, Murray ; 

 Erigeron uniflorus, L. ; Nardosmia (Tussilago) frigida, Cass. ; 

 Taraxacum palustre, Srn. ; *T. pbymatocarpum, Vahl. ; Mertensia 

 (Pulnionaria) maritima, L. ; *Polemonium pulcbellum, Ledeb. ; 

 Pedicularis birsuta, L. ; Andromeda tetragona, L. ; Empetrum nigrum, 

 L. : Polygonum viviparum, L. ; Oxyria reniformis, Hook. ; Salix reti- 

 culata, L. ; S. polaris, Wbg. ; Juncus biglumis, L. ; Luzula hyperborea, 

 E. Br. ; L. arctica, Blytt ; Eriopborum capitatum, Host. ; Carex 

 pulla, Good; C. misandra, E. Br.; C. glareosa, Wbg. ; C. nardina, 

 Fr. ; C. rupestris, All. ; Alopecurus alpinus, Sm. ; Aira alpina, L. ; 

 Calamagrostis negiecta, Ebrb. ; Trisetum subspicatum, P. Beauv. ; 

 *Hierocbloe pauciflora, E. Br. ; *Dupontia psilosantba, Eupr. ; *D. 

 Fiscberi, E. Br. ; Poa pratensis, var. alpigena, Fr. ; P. cenisia, All. ; 

 P. stricta, Lindeb ; *P. abbreviata, E. Br. ; P. vabliana, Liebm. ; 

 *Glyceria angustata, Mgr. ; Catabrosa algida, Fr. ; *0. vilfoidea, 

 Anders. ; Festuca birsuta, Fl. Dan. ; F. ovina, L. ; *F. brevifolia, E. 

 Br. Thus of the 93 flowering plants of Spitzbergen, 69 species occur 

 in Scandinavia, and 29 of them also in Britain, while 23 are ex- 

 clusively Arctic. 



Ferns of Southern India.* 



We have received this work now completed in 20 fasciculi, which is 

 very creditable to the author, one of the most ardent and promising 

 botanists in British India, known by his contributions to the ' Madras 



* ' The Ferns of Southern India, being Descriptions and Plates of the Ferns of 

 the Madras Presidency.' By Captain Beddome, Officiating Conservator of Forests. 

 4to. Madras, 1S64. 



