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Contributions to the flora of Iceland. 



By 



Theodor Holm. 



An American lady Miss Elizabeth Taylor visited 

 Iceland during the summer of 1895 and made quite an ex- 

 tensive collection of phanerogams and ferns. After her 

 return to America, Miss Taylor distributed her collection to 

 various institutions e. g. to the Catholic University and to 

 the U. S. National Museum, in order to have the specimens 

 identified. The herbarium of the Catholic University obtained 

 in this way a complete set of these plants, and it was 

 through the courtesy of Dr. Edw. L. Greene, that the au- 

 thor received the privilege of identifying the collection. 



As will be seen from the accompanying list, Miss Taylor 

 succeded in discovering several rare plants in new localities, 

 some of which had only been collected once or twice before, 

 besides that she rediscovered the much disputed „Milium 

 effusum". The specimens of this plant were very tall, rea- 

 ching a height of almost three feet, and abundantly blooming. 



Concerning the localities in which the plants were collec- 

 ted, I have enumerated only such, as seem to be new accor- 

 ding to the papers of Mohr 1 ), Grønlund 2 ), Fri drik s - 



*) Mohr, N. Forsøg til en islandsk Naturhistorie. Kjøbenhavn 1786. 

 2 ) Grønlund, Chr. Islands Flora. Kjøbenhavn 1881. 



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