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APPENDIX. E.

LIST*

OF

ICELANDIC PLANTS.

I. MONANDRIA.

1. MONOGYNIA.

HIPPURIS vulgaris.
Zostera marina.

* This catalogue is principally taken from Zoega's Flora Islandica (attached to the Danish edition of Povelsen and Olafsen's account of Iceland), and Mohr's Forfög til en Islandsk Naturhistorie, published at Copenhagen in 1786. The few additional species, which I am enabled to insert by means of Sir George Mackenzie's and Mr. Paulsen's collections and my own researches, are distinguished by being printed in italics. In some instances, where I have, in the course of my journal, had occasion to notice any new plant or any peculiarity belonging to those that are already known, I have referred to the page where it is mentioned.

II. DIGYNIA.

Callitriche aquatica.

y. autumnalis.

II. DIANDRIA.

I. MONOGYNIA.

Veronica officinalis.

serpyllifolia.

Beccabunga.

Anagallis.

scutellata.

alpina.

fruticulosa. (vol. I. p. 113.)

marilandica.

Pinguicula vulgaris." Les Islandais s'en

servent quelquefois en guise

d'ail." Voyage en Islande.

alpina.

II. DIGYNIA.

Anthoxanthum odoratum.

III. TRIANDRIA.

I. MONOGYNIA.

Valeriana officinalis.

Schoenus compressus.

Scirpus palustris.

lacustris.

cæspitosus.

acicularis.

setaceus.

Eriophorum polystachion.-Of the pappus

of

this plant the natives make wicks for their lamps.

vaginatum.

capitatum. Hoppe. (vol. I. p. 178.) alpinum.

Nardus stricta.

II. DIGYNIA.

Phleum pratense.

nodosum.

alpinum.

Alopecurus geniculatus.

Milium effusum.

Agrostis rubra.

stolonifera.

canina.

vulgaris.

B. pumila.

alba.

arundinacea.

cærulea.

Aira cæspitosa.

flexuosa.

montana.

subspicata.

alpina.
aquatica.

præcox.

Holcus odoratus.-Said to be used by the Icelanders to perfume their apartments and their clothes.

Sesleria cærulea,

Poa pratensis.

trivialis.

compressa.

annua.

angustifolia.

alpina.

maritima.

glauca. Both this and the following species are far from uncommon in Iceland.

cœsia.

Festuca ovina.

rubra.

elatior.

fluitans.

duriuscula.

Festuca vivipara. (vol. I. p. 320.)
Arundo Phragmites.

Epigejos.

arenaria.

Elymus arenarius.-(vol. II. p. 226.) The seeds are occasionally made into a

[blocks in formation]

Koenigia islandica. (vol. 1. p. 152 and 191.)

IV. TETRANDRIA.

1. MONOGYNIA.

Scabiosa succisa.-The Icelandic names for this plant, Pukabit and Dievelsbid, have both the same signification as our Devil's bit.

Galium verum.

palustre.

Mollugo.

pusillum.

boreale,

Plantago major.

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