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 354 ICELAND AND FAROE BOTANY. Plantago media. Eeykholt, W. Saljiland S. -'P. lanceolata (3. duhia Asch. Selj aland S. Salix ovata Ser. a. latifolia Anderss. Berg Baula W. '^'Carex pulla f. gracilescens Kurtz. The Faroes. Perhaps the same as the plant found by Dr. Shoolbred in the Hebrides. '^Polygala vulgaris y. grandiflora Bab. = P. buxifolia Ball in herb. = P. Ballii Nyman, Consp. FL Europ. 83, 1878. Stromoe and Syderoe. Apparently determined from the descriptions in Babington's Manual and Journ. Hot, 1877, 171. Such cases, I think, are open to doubt ; a comparison of authentic specimens is necessary. '''Viola sylvatica Fr. v. arenaria (DC. sp.). Stromoe. Cerastimn trigynum Vill. Syderoe. Hypericum pulclirum f. pumila Kurtz. I should expect this to prove the same as f. procumhens Rostrup. "^'Euphrasia officinalis v. latifolia Lange. Stromoe ; Syderoe. ^^'Myosotis stricta Link. '^'Pedicular is palustris f. pumila Kurtz. Syderoe. "^'Plantago maritima v. borealis Kurtz = P. borealis Lange. Stromoe. But this is the P. mantima «. glauca Hornem, Oec. PL 167, and so already named as a variety. -'Potamogetoji alpinus Balbis. Stromoe. This is a notable addition to the Faroen Flora. It occurs in Iceland !, Greenland !, but is not recorded for the Shetlands or Orkneys, though found in several stations in Caithness. In Norway it is found north to 70° 25' (Norman, Index Supp. loc. nat. 38, 1864); in Finland to 68° 30' (Wainio, Notes sur la FL Lap. Finland, 70, 1891). I beheve I am correct in stating that Lieut. -Col. Feilden intends to bring out a work on the Fauna and Flora of these islands, and in the latter several additions will be made to the known list of species. It is remarkable that (so far as I know) not one of the *' List of Icelandic Plants requiring to be verified" that I gave in this Journal for 1890, p. 82, seems to have been gathered ; all surely cannot be errors, yet the majority are plants well known, not obscure or critical species, which in that case might have been passed over. These species numbered about ninety, a large number to be recorded on seemingly such slender grounds ; in any future Flora of Iceland it will be well to place all these in square brackets, or relegate them to an appendix. Since the above was written, notices of Faroen plants have appeared in the Botaniska Notiser for 1896, haft 2.
 * Ranunculus Flammula f. minor Kurtz. Syderoe ; Stromoe.