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THE YEGETATIOK OF SPITZBEEGEN COMPARED WITH THAT 

 OF THE ALPS AIsTD PYREIsrEES, 



By Chas, Martins, 

 Pro/ of Natural History, and Director of the, " Jar din des Plantes, cfce^, 



at Montpellier. 



(Concluded from page20Q,J 



Part Y. 



This article would not be complete if we did not cast a passing glance 

 to the Pyrenees, in order to ascertain if the arctic flora has left any represen- 

 tatives there since the retreat of the glaciers which, in this chain as in all 

 the others descended far into the plains, both in France and Spain. 



The vegetation of the Pyrenees closely resembles that of the Alps. M. 

 Zetterstedt ^ counts in all sixty-eight Alpine plants common to the Pyrenees^ 

 the Alps, and the Scandinavian mountains, and one only Menziesia 

 {Phyllodoce) Goerulea, which is only found in Scandinavia and the Pyrenees. 



Eamond, after thirty-five ascents of the Pic du Midi de Bagneres, during 

 fifteen years, and comprised in the season between the 20th July and 7th 

 October, applied himself to collecting all the plants of the terminal cone, the 

 height of which is sixteen metres (fifty-two feet), the summit being 2877 

 metres (9172 feet), above the level of the sea, and having an area of some 

 few acres only ; he there found seventy-one flowering plants. This list is 

 pretty complete, the later researches of other botanists not havmg added to 

 it. M. Charles Desmouiins, who made the ascent on the 17th October, 1840, 

 only cites Stellaria cerastoides as having escaped the searching eyes of Ramond. 

 I annex the list of these plants, extracted from the Memoire of Eamond, 

 (which is now very scarce), preserving the names of this author t to which, 

 I have added some synonyms in order to make it uniform with the preceding 

 lists. 



Phanerogamia of the Summit of the Pic du Midi de Eigorre. 



[E'.B. — The plants in italics are also found at the Jardin de la mer de 

 Glace at Chamounix ; those marked with an asterisk in Lapland.] 

 Papaveracetb. Papaver pyrenaicum, D.C. 



Crucifer^. Draba aizoides, Willd. ; D. nivalis, Willd. ; D. pyrenaica^ 

 * Plantes vascularies des Pyrenees principales, 1857. 



t Etat de la Vegetation au sommet du pic du Midi, (Mem. de 1' Acad, des Sciences 

 de Paris, Tome VI. p. 81. 1827.) 



