In  the  years  1877 — 78  niy  father  dr.  M.  Holmboe,  now  director 
of  the  civil  medical  service  of  Norway,  partook  of  the  war  between 
Russia  and  Turkey  as  a military  surgeon  on  the  Turkish  side,  in 
the  service  of  “Le  Croissant  rouge“.  In  this  quality  he  dwelt  in  the 
Armenian  town  of  Erzeroum  during  the  winter,  while  this  town  was 
hesieged  by  the  Russians,  and  later  after  the  Russian  occupation. 
On  his  return  to  the  coast  in  April,  1878,  he  had  occasion  to  see 
the  rich  spring-flora  of  these  regions  develloping,  in  its  first  com- 
mencement  on  the  heights  of  Kop  Dagh  and  Wawuk  Dagh,  and  far 
more  progressed  in  the  valleys  and  near  the  coast  of  the  Black 
Sea  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Trebizond.  There  was  no  opportunity 
to  make  any  extensive  botanical  collections,  and  my  father  had  to 
confine  liimself  to  dry  and  carry  with  him  a small  choice  of  plants 
observed  from  horseback.  A few  plants  were  also  collected  partly 
on  Zigana  Dagh  in  January  and  partly  about  Trebizond  in  the  first 
days  of  May  the  same  year. 
These  plants  he  has  afterwards  presented  to  the  botanical  museum 
of  the  university  at  Kristiania.  The  director  of  this  museum,  prof. 
dr.  N.  WiLLE  has  been  kind  enough  to  lend  them  to  me  for  exa- 
mination,  and  I have  recently  determined  them  at  Geneva,  where 
I had  the  great  advantage  of  being  able  to  consult  the  rich  botanical 
treasures  of  the  “Herbier  Boissier”.  As  the  collection  of  my  father 
has  appeared  to  contain  a couple  of  species,  which  are  not  indicated 
for  Armenia  in  Boissiek’s  “Flora  orientalis”,  including  one  new  to 
science,  and  has  also  caused  a few  critical  observations  on  the 
synonymy  of  some  of  the  species,  I have  considered  it  desirable 
. to  publish  the  following  list. 
Gagea  Pinardi  Ten-aciano  in  Boll.  Soc.  ort.  inut.  socc.  Palermo,  II, 
35  (1904)  et  in  Bull.  Herb.  Boiss.  2.  Sér.  VI,  107. 
var.  blilbillifera  Teirac.  in  Bull.  Herb.  Boiss.,  1.  c.  108  (1906). 
Armenia  (no  special  locality  noted). 
