TRAVELS IN ICELAND. 



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|?osed to this acid, which exists every where in its vicinity. On 

 boiling or burning this wood, we may immediately discover the 

 acid with which it is impregnated ; and its black colour is a proof 

 of what is here advanced, since it can only arise from the com- 

 bination that takes place between the vegetable juices and the 

 vitriol, 



PLANTS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OP ICELAND. 



-Among the plants which are seldom met with in the territory 

 of Dale, in the western part of Iceland, are the following : 

 Epilobium latifolium; Viola tricolor ( Fl. Sv. 721 ) ; Campa- 

 nula rotundifolia, foliis radicalibus rotundis, reniformis ( Fl. 

 Succ. 176'J,* Cochlearia rotundifolia ; Urtica minor; An- 

 geligica Archangelica (Fl. Lappon. 10 I); Imperatoria os- 

 truthium ; Plantago latifolia ; Trifolium pratense, flore 

 dlbo ; Galium joins quatemis, flore albo ; Saxifraga au- 

 tamnaiis; Gnaphalia, divicum, alpinum, sylvaticum (Fl. 

 Sv. 572, 673, et 67o); Sibbaldia procumbens ; Aego- 

 podium podagearia; Spircea ulmaria ; Echium vulgare; 

 Nasturtium prat ense; Viceacracea; Rhodiola; Veronica of- 

 ficinalis; Veronica spicata; Holcus odoratus (FL Sv. 70.) ' 7 

 Arundo arenaria (Fl. Sv. 102) ; Galium verum, foliis denis s 

 tindenis, et duodenis; Galium Aperine (FL Sv. 120J; Trifo- 

 lium jibrinum ( Menianth.es trifolia) ; Gentiana autumnalis ; 

 Gentiana nivalis; Gentiana verna; et Gentiana pneamo- 

 nantlie; Parnassia triglichia (palustre, FL Sv.°98); Epilo- 

 bium foliis ovato-acuminatis serratis (fetragonum ) ; Epilo~ 

 bium palustre ; Liniuei Poligonum bistorta, foliis lanceolatis 

 alter nis; Bnlbi scapi ; Pyrola minor racemosa ; Saxifraga 

 opposite ' folia (FL Sv. 359); Saxifraga cotyledon, foliis ra~ 

 diccelibus sub rot iuidis,serr uteris cartilagineis (FL Lapp. 177); 

 Cucubalis acaulis (Silenc. Fl. Lapp. 185); Ledum annum 

 aere (FL Sv. 39U; Dryas octopetala ; Geum rivale; Ra- 

 nunculus (nivalis) pygmaus; Ranunculus aquaticus, foliis 

 omnibus capillaceis; Bartsia Alpina; Nasturtium aquaticum; 

 Hieracium murorum ( FL Sv. 637 )\ Hieracium Alpinum (ibid. 

 632); et Hieracium umbellatum, foliis linearibus ( ibid. 639 ); 

 Cotula faitida\ Viola (palustris) acaulis, foliis reniformibus 

 ( Fl. Sv. 733); Osmunda lunaria; Equisetum foliis octagonis; 

 Lycopodium selago; et Lycopodium clavatum, cum semine 

 sulphuris vegetabilis (Fl. Sv. 859); Lichenes Islandici escu- 

 lenti; Tremel la nostock; Urtica magima ( Fl. Lappon 374) ; 

 and Sorbus accaparia, and others not worthy of particular spe- 

 cification, 



