capitatum, Konigia islándica, Gentiana tendía,
detonsa fthe ciliata of Retzius), and
aurea, Andromeda hypnoides, Chamaene-
rium halamifolium, Angelica Archangelica,
Lychnis alpina, Papaver nudicaule, Dr aba
conforta of Retzius, Orchis hyperborea,
Carex Bellardi, Salix Lapponum, and other
plants peculiar to high northern latitudes,
together with some, as yet undescribed, will
likewise offer themselves for his examination,
and afford him a pleasure, of which no one,
but a naturalist, can form an idea, as well as
what is happily termed by Doctor Smith
one of the highest sources of gratification
attending upon this and similar pursuits,
“ the anticipation of the pleasure he may
have to bestow on kindred minds with his
own, in sharing with them his discoveries
and his acquisitions.” * But a richer field is
open before him in the class Cryptogamia.
The Muscologia of the country is little
known, and I am sure, from what I myself
found, that many new and rare species
would reward a careful search among this
tribe, though, like me, he might seek in
* Preface to the Introduction to Botany.
vain for the magnificent Splachna of the
Norwegian and Lapponian Alps, rubrum
and luteum, two plants that I had most
earnestly reckoned upon gathering. Tor-
tula tortuosa, Catharinea hercynica and
glabrata, with Polytrichum sexangulare,
the latter always barren, as in Scotland,
Buxbaumia foliosa, Dicranum pusillum,
Hypnum revolvens, Silesianum, and Jila-
mentosum, Meesia dealbata, Conastomum
boreale, Splachnum vasculosum and urceola-
tum, Trichostomum ellipticum, Fontinalis
squamosa and falcata, both abundantly
provided with capsules, and Encalypta al-
pina, as well as many other mosses, which I
cannot with any degree of certainty now call
to my remembrance, are met with upon the
lava, in the morasses, or in the rapid torrents.
Most of the known alpine species of Jun-
germannia are also natives of Iceland, and
some new ones, the loss of which I peculiarly
regret. Of Lichens there are comparatively
but few, as, indeed, may reasonably
be expected from the extreme scarcity
of trees, to which so many of them are
exclusively attached; and even the rocky
species are far from abounding; the lava,