74 Dr Lauder Lindsay on the Flora of Iceland. 
S. cuneifolia, L., is the same as S. punctata of Gunner. 
This is probably your plant. DC. gives S. punctata, Ser., 
as a variety of S. hirsuta, L., not British.” Geranium fuscum. 
* T cannot find any variety called montanum.” Bromus cris- 
tatus may be B. cristatus, L., which is “ Triticum cristatum, 
Schreb., a British plant—Eng. Bot. t. 2267, found in the 
Taurus, Caucasus, Siberia,” &c. This “ British plant” is not, 
however, mentioned in Bentham’s ‘“* Handbook of the British 
Flora” (1858): and in Hooker and Arnott’s “ British Flora” 
(1850, p. 556), there is the following note regarding it:— 
« A plant almost peculiar to the east of Europe and Asia, 
rarely occurring (and perhaps only when introduced) in the 
south of EKurope—not, we believe, a native of France—and 
which could not have been indigenous to the station assigned 
above.’ The latter remark, I fear, applies equally to its 
being found in Iceland; and further, this does not appear to 
be the only plant mentioned in the older Icelandic Floras, to 
which such a remark may be properly applied. 
Only some of the difficulties above alluded to have been 
overcome; and that they have been so is due to the as- 
sistance of the following botanists, whose names are a 
sufficient guarantee for the value of their respective criti- 
cisms. Professor Balfour, with the aid of such works as Steu- 
del’s ** Nomenclator Botanicus,’’ De Candolle’s “ Prodromus,” 
Kunth’s “ Enumeratio Plantarum,” and Sprengel’s “Sys- 
tema Vegetabilium,” has unravelled the synonymy of cer- 
tain of the Phanerogams in regard to which I was in doubt. 
Professor Harvey and Mr Croall revised the lists of the Ice- 
landic Alge. Dr Carrington of Yeadon, Leeds, who is at 
present preparing a critical work on the “ British Hepatice,” 
revised the list of the Mosses and Hepatice; while that of - 
the Fungi was submitted to the Rev. Mr Berkeley. By the 
aid of these gentlemen, to whom I am glad of this opportunity 
of publicly expressing my obligations, the list of plants which is 
appended has been rendered comparatively or approximatively 
more complete and accurate than it otherwise could have been. 
Such of the Phanerogams, Ferns, and their allies, as are 
British, have been named and arranged in my list according to 
Bentham’s “ Handbook of the British Flora.” I have selected 
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