176 COL. FEILDEN AND MR. GELDART ON THE FLORA OF KOLGUEV. 
Feilden’s botanical investigations on Kolguev were greatly 
aided by the Rev. H. H. Slater, himself an accomplished botanist, 
and by Mr. C. E. Pearson. Roth of these gentlemen devoted 
themselves more particularly to the ornithology of the island, 
during the short visit ; but Feilden’s thanks are especially due to 
Mr. Slater, not only for adding to his herbarium, but also for 
critical identification of plants, and drawing attention to several 
obscure species, which might otherwise have been overlooked. 
Mr. C. E. Pearson also contributed to the collection, and his 
assistance, at all times generously accorded, is gratefully remembered. 
It is somewhat remarkable that Kolguev which has not been 
visited by scientific men since 1S41, when Dr. Ruprecht landed 
there, should have been botanised over by two Englishmen 
in two successive years, 1894 and 1895, the result being that 
Mr. Trevor- Battye brought the number of species of flowering 
plants and vascular cryptogams known to grow there up to 
one hundred and seventeen, and Feilden adds thirty more, making 
a total of one hundred and forty-seven. But it is not at all likely 
that the flora of the island has been exhaustively worked out, 
for Feilden’s collection was entirely made in a semi-circular area 
(with the sea for its base) of about seven miles radius from his 
camp on the Gobista, that distance being as much as he could 
travel on foot out and home again in one day over so difficult 
a country, and in such an unfavourable climate. 
The flora of the island appears to be merely an extension of that 
of the nearest mainland about fifty miles distant, with, as has 
been pointed out by Mr. Trevor-Battye, a few curious additions 
and omissions. Of the additions, Stellaria longipes, Goldie, and 
»S'. humifusa, Rottb., seem the most important. These two species, 
though both are found in Skandinavia, are specially at home in 
Greenland, where the latter grows in every one of the ten zones 
into which Professor Warming has divided that land, and the 
former in eight out of the ten, being absent only from the middle 
and southern zones of the east coast. By far the most notable 
of the omissions, as at present known, is Saxifraga oppositi folia, L., 
which has been found in Arctic regions of both hemispheres, being 
present even in the restricted floras of Jan Mayen and Bear Island. 
Its absence is all the more strange, because we know that it is 
a favourite food of birds, and therefore the more likely to be 
