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carried to the island by them. Mertensia maritima, Don., also 
noticed by Mr. Trevor-Battye as an absentee, is not nearly so 
widely distributed as the Saxifraga, being absent from East 
Greenland altogether, and from both the extreme north and 
extreme south of West Greenland, and from both Xovaya Zemlva 
and Bear Island (Th. Fries), but it grows in both Jan Mayen and 
Spitsbergen. Ledum paludre , L., as Mr. Trevor-Battye observes, 
iloes not grow on Kolguev, but it is also absent from Xovaya 
Zemlya, indeed it appears from Professor Warming’s and 
Th. Holm’s tables (‘Voyage of the Dijmphna’) that no plant of the 
order Ericaceai has been found on that island. It is also noticeable 
that 1‘haca friijula, L., is absent from Kolguev, considering its 
presence in the Kola Peninsula, and its remarkable abundance in 
Xovaya Zemlva. 
There is no doubt that had Feilden’s collection been made 
a month later in the year, more additions would have been made to 
the list of species. There are several Crucifera ? and Cyperacew 
among his plants, which being only in flower, and not in seed, are 
undeterminable. In the case of Carrs limosa, L., that name is used 
as an aggregate, it being very probable that had the specimens 
been in fruit some might have been separable as C. irrigua, Hoppe, 
and others as C. rarijiora , 8m. 
Warm thanks are due to Mr. Arthur Bennett, to whom the 
whole of Colonel Feilden’s plants collected on this voyage were 
submitted, for his kindness and the great trouble that he took in 
naming them. A few which remained doubtful were compared with 
the herbarium of the British Museum at South Kensington, where 
Messrs. Jas. Britten, E. G. Baker, and A. B. Kendle showed great 
kindness and gave most valuable help, for which we beg to thank 
them one and all. 
Ranunculus fygm.eus, Wahl. Common on clayey banks, and 
on the sides of runnels in the. tundra. Fully in flower during July 
on the Avest side of the island. 
Ranunculus acris, L. Very common in the Gobista valley 
on slopes and banks. Grows in clumps and clusters of blossom. 
Flowering fully in July. 
Ranunculus pallasii, Schlecht. Abundant around the pools 
and meres on the tundra, likeAvise in similar places in the valley of 
the Gobista. Its long roots grow in the water, and the white flowers 
