The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown/Volume 1/Catalogue of plants found in Spitzbergen by Captain Scoresby


CATALOGUE OF PLANTS

FOUND IN

SPITZBERGEN

BY

CAPTAIN SCORESBY.


BY
ROBERT BROWN, F.R.S.



[Reprinted from "An Account of the Arctic Regions," by W. Scoresby,
Jun.
, F.R.S.E.
Vol. 1, Appendix, No. V, pp. 75, 76.]




EDINBURGH.


1820.



CATALOGUE OF PLANTS

FOUND IN

SPITZBERGEN.[1]

[75




Hexandria.

Luzula campestris, Juncus campestris, L.


Decandria.

Andromeda tetragona, Linné.
Saxifraga oppositifolia, L.
——— cernua, L.
——— var. nivalis, L.
——— cæspitosa, β grœnlandica, Wahlenb. lapp. 119.
Cerastium alpinum, α hirsutum, Wahlenb. lapp., 136.


Icosandria.

Dryas octopetala, L.


Polyandria.

Papaver radicatum, Rottb. Vix diversum a P. nudicaule, L.
Ranunculus sulphureus, Soland. in Phipps' Voyage.


Didynamia.

Pedicularis hirsuta, L.


Tetradynamia.

Cochlearia grœnlandica? Vel C. Anglica, Wahl. lapp.
Cardamine bellidifolia, L.
Draba alpina, L.


Diœcia.

Salix polaris, Wahlenb. lapp., 261.


Cryptogamia.

Trichostomum lanuginosum.
Hypnum dendroides.
——— rufescens?
Bryum ventricosum, Smith brit.
——— ligulatum?
Dicrani species?
Andreæa alpina.
Ulva ?
[76Fucus forsan nov. sp. prope alatum sed absque fructific.
——— plumosus.
——— sinuatus.
Conferva ?
——— nigra?
Cenomyce furcata, Achar. Syn., 276.
——— pocillum, Id., 253.
Solorina crocea, Id., 8.
Alectoria jubata, β chalybeiformis, Id. 291.
Lecanora murorum, var, Id. 181.
Lecidea atrovirens, Id. 24.
Gyrophora hirsuta, Id. 69.
——— erosa, Id. 65.
——— proboscidea, Id. 64.
Endocarpum sinopieum, Id. 98.
Sphærophoron coralloides, Id. 287.
Parmelia stygia, Id.
——— recurva, Id. 206?
——— sp. nov.? sed absque fructific.
Peltidea canina?
Cetraria nivalis, Id. 228.
Cornicularia aculeata, β spadicea, Id. 300.
Usnea? prope U. melaxantham, Id. 303.
Stereocaulon paschale, Id. 284.




  1. This list includes the whole of the plants I met with, excepting some of the larger fuci, in three or four visits to the shore about King's Bay and Mitre Cape. Some of the specimens being imperfect, or without fructification, their species could not always be determined.—W. Scoresby.