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A MONG the fields of research opened to science by the Swedish Arctic expeditions of recent years the botanical one is that which has been cultivated the most assiduously and with the best results. The contributions which Swedish men of science have made to our knowledge of the flora of the Arctic regions are varied as well as important. They embrace the higher as well as the lower forms, both the species invisible to the naked eye as well as those of greater size, and the varieties hidden in the lap of the ocean as well as those which the student encounters on terra firina. Swedish botanists have particularly increased our knowledge of the remarkable flora of the sea. Thus instead of, as only a few years ago, our being ignorant as to whether there really was a flora at the bottom of the Arctic seas or not, we are now more familiar with the algæ flora of these regions than many another in far more southern latitudes.
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WITTROCK, V. On the Algic Flora of the Arctic Seas . Nature 30, 638–640 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030638a0
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