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mentioned by neither. The revised list of plants, collected 
by Babington, was published in 1848. Since this date I 
~ am not aware that any addition or contribution to the botany 
of Iceland has been made, either in this country or on the 
Continent. There is only one other work, containing reference 
to the plants of Iceland, which it seems necessary to mention 
here, viz..— The Edinburgh Cabinet Library volume on ‘“ Ice- 
land, Greenland, and the Farde Islands” (1840). This work 
contains a chapter on botany, partly relating to Iceland, its 
data being mainly based on Morck’s “Catalogue of the Plants 
of Iceland,” contained in Gliemann’s account of that island, 
published in 1824. The Edinburgh Cabinet Library volume 
states the number of Icelandic Phanerogams at 472 
Cryptogams at 398 
Total 870 
This number is considerably higher than that given by any 
other writer. Vahl’s list, for instance, which ought to be the 
fullest, as it is the most recent, being sixteen years pos- 
terior in date to Gliemann’s, gives only 432 flowering plants. 
I have not been fortunate enough to procure a perusal of 
Gliemann’s work, and therefore cannot say how far Morck’s 
catalogue of Icelandic plants bears the appearance of accu- 
racy. But there is every probability that a list so full would not 
have escaped the notice of Dr Hyjaltalin, who would have in- 
corporated in his ‘“ Flora of Iceland,” published some six 
years later, such plants as he was satisfied were really natives 
of that country. Several of the works mentioned in my 
“ Bibliographical Appendix” are mere papers, mostly by Ice- 
landers, published in Icelandic or Danish journals, which 
have not been accessible to me ; but which have every appear- 
ance, from their titles and places of publication, of possessing 
only a minor importance. 
With a view to showing the impossibility of drawing up 
from such materials as the foregoing, or those mentioned 
in the Appendix, a complete and reliable list of the plants 
of Iceland, I have the following remarks to offer. I am 
disposed to regard Dr Hjaltalin’s Flora as at once the 
most accurate and complete hitherto published, for reasons 
