FLORAS OF THE WORLD—PART II 457 
Botanical explorations, notes on flora of special localities, etc.; annotated 
list of vascular plants collected chiefly in the Hyen district; English summary, 
bibliography. 
Samuelsson, Gunnar. Om floran i Nordfjord. [I]-II. Nytt Mag. Naturv. 
78: 37-65. 1938; 83: 49-62. 1942. (Reprinted in Meddel. Norsk Bot. For. 
1937: 37-65. 1938; 1941: 49-62. 1942.) 
General features of flora in vicinity of Randabygda, with annotated list 
of known vascular plants; also list of scarcer plants found by author in 
Hennebygda and at other localities. The second part includes additional 
species and localities for Randabygda, bringing total to 452 species; also 
extensive list of vascular plants from Nordfjord, with localities—See also 
his Nordfjords Hieraciumflora. Publicerad efter hans dod av S. O. F. 
Omang. Arkiv Bot. II, v. 1, no. 1. 270 p. 1949. (List with descriptions 
of many new species; bibliography.) 
SVALBARD 
(Spitsbergen and associated islands, including Jan Mayen.) 
General 
Ostenfeld, C. H., ed. Flora arctica containing descriptions of the plants and 
ferns, found in the Arctic regions, with their distribution in these countries. 
Pt. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, and Monocotyledones. xi, 134 p. 965 fig., 
map (in text). Copenhagen, 1902. 
Bibliography; descriptive flora with keys, references, local and general 
range (212 species). The region covered includes Svalbard as well as areas 
in North America and Asia. Pt. 1 by Otto Gelert and C. H. Ostenfeld; 
no more published. 
Polunin, Nicholas. Circumboreal Arctic flora. xxviii, 514 p. illus. incl. 
map. 24cm. Oxford, 1959. 
Botanical regions (10), key to families; partially keyed, descriptive flora 
of vascular plants (892 species), mostly with only generalized statement of 
range; figure of each species, the authorities for botanical names given 
only under the illustrations. A large number of species are given as “agg.;” 
no infraspecific taxa mentioned. Covers northern Russia, northern Alaska, 
northern Canada, and Greenland; in our range only Spitsbergen, Bear Island, 
and Jan Mayen. 
BygRn¢gYA (Bear IsLAnND; BEEREN-EILAND) 
See also Spitsbergen (Andersson and Hesselman, Bidrag till kannedomen om Spetsbergens 
och Beeren Eilands karlvaxtflora; Resvoll-Holmsen, Svalbards flora). 
General 
Hanssen, Olaf, and Holmboe, Jens. The vascular plants of Bear Island. 
Nyt Mag. Naturv. 62: 210-235 (incl. map). 1925. 
Botanical investigations; annotated list of 55 vascular plants known from 
the island; bibliography. Replaces Fries, T. M. Om Beeren-Islands fanero- 
gam-vegetation. Ofvers. K. Vetensk.-Akad. Forhandl. 26 (1869): 145-156. 
1870. (History with included bibliography, general features of flora; 
annotated list of 38 vascular plants.) 
Jan MAYEN 
General 
1 ne Christian. Jan Mayens karplanter. Bot. Tidsskr. 24: 297-302. 
Annotated list of 39 vernacular plants known from the island. 
Ostenfeld, C. H. Contribution a la flore de l’ile Jan-Mayen. Bot. Tidsskr. 
21: 18-32. 1897.—Note corrective. l.c. 21: 220. 1897. 
Botanical investigations, with bibliographical footnotes; annotated list of 
cellular (by other authors) and vascular plants known from the island; 
178 species, of which 28 are vascular plants. Replaces Reichardt, H. W. 
