Dr Lauder Lindsay on the Flora of Iceland. 101 
Commission Scientifique d’Island et de Groenland ; Minéralogie et Géo- 
logie par M. Eugéne Robert.”’ First Part. Paris, 1840. 
*7. <* List of Plants gathered during a short visit to Iceland in 1846,” 
by Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S., &. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 
vol, iii., part 1., p. 15, 1848. 
8. Miller in Nova Acta Nat. Cur., vol. iv. p. 203 and seq., contains, 
according to the Edinburgh Cabinet Library volume on Iceland, p. 382, 
the first published list of Icelandic plants. 
9. Grasafraedi, by Distrikts-Kirurgus Sveinn Palsson, who wrote about 
the year 1800, and who lived in the vicinity of the Kotlugja4 volcano in 
the south of Iceland. 
10. Gliemann’s ‘‘ Geographische Beschreibung von Island” (Altona, 
1824), is said to contain the fullest list hitherto published of Icelandic 
plants, being chiefly compiled by Morck, a companion of Kotzebue in his 
circumnavigation of the globe [according to the Edin. Cabinet Library 
volume on Iceland, p. 382]. Pp. 186-148 and 171-183. Gliemann’s 
list would appear to exceed that of Zoega, Hooker, and Mackenzie by 
about 100 species of Phanerogams and as many Cryptogams. 
11. A. J. Retzius’ ‘‘ Flore Scandinavie Prodromus,” enumerating 
the plants of Iceland, along with those of Greenland, Sweden, Norway, 
Denmark, Lapland, Finland, &c.: published at Leipzig, 2d ed. 
12. Kening’s “ Flora Islandica.” 
13. Mohr ‘‘ Fors6g til en Islandsk Naturhistorie.”” Copenhagen, 1786. 
14. List of Icelandic Plants (Fishes and Birds), with their Linnean 
names, by Olaf Olafsson, in Trans. of Ist Literary Society of Iceland. 
15. On the Cultivation of Trees in Iceland, by Jon Petursson, in the 
above-mentioned Transactions. 
16, Economical Travels through the North Parts of Iceland, by Olaf 
Olafsson, 2 vols., 4to, 1780; contains an essay on the Icelandic ‘‘ Surtur- 
brand” (which illustrates the fossz flora of Iceland). The most recent 
information regarding this form of lignite may be found in 
*17. ‘“Physisch-geographische Skizze von Island, mit besonderer Riick- 
sicht auf Vulkanische Erscheinungen : abgedruckt aus der Gottinger 
Studien,” by Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen. Gottingen, 1847, 
18. ‘‘Snotru Afhandling om de til Menneskefode brugelige Tangarter,”’ 
by Dr juris M. Stephensen. | 
19. “ Grasnytjar,”’ by Sira (Rev.) Bjorn Haldérsson. 
20. Madame Ida Pfeiffer’s ‘‘ Journey to Iceland, and Travels in Nor- 
way and Sweden.’”’ 8vo. London, 1852. | 
*21. ‘‘ Iceland: or a Journal of a Residence in that Island during the 
years 1814-15.” By the Rev. Ebenezer Henderson, D.D., Ph.D., Mis- 
sionary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. 8vo. Edinburgh, 
1818, 2 vols. References will be found to the ‘‘ Surturbrand”’ in vol i,, 
p- 195; vol. ii, pp. 11, 80, 104, 113, 116, 125; to present and former 
forests in vol. i., pp. 10, 187, 224; vol. ii., p. 74; to drift-wood, in 
vol. ii., p. 180; to agriculture, in vol. i., pp. 11, 122,136; and to other 
subjects connected with Icelandic botany in vol. i., p. 161 [Angelica]; 
vol. i., p. 307. [Melur corn—Elymus arenarius, L.] 
The dates of the principal or most important of the foregoing Floras or 
lists are as follows :— 
1. Zoega ; ie tines |. 7. Hjaltaliny occ) 1830 
2. Mohr eta: 1786 8. Vahl and Robert 1835-40 
3. Palsson . : 1800 9, Edinburgh Cabinet 
4. Hooker. : 1809-13 Library . : 1840 
5. Mackenzie : 1810-11 | 10. Babington . : 1846-48 
6. Gliemann . ; 1824 li. Lindsay. : 1860 
