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The additions thus made by Mr. Eaton to our knowledge of the 

 lichen-flora of Kerguelen are thus not only very considerable in 

 number, but also most interesting on account of the new types 

 amongst them. Probably other species may have been collected 

 by the botanists accompanying the American and G-erman expe- 

 ditions, which were stationed respectively at Molly Point and 

 Betsy Cove, lying north and east of Observatory Bay. When the 

 collections thus made have been recorded, I hope to be able to 

 supplement the present memoir by a fuller catalogue of Kerguelen 

 Lichens, containing also a revision of the species of Dr. Hooker's 

 1 Flora Antarctica,' so far as the Kew Herbarium is available for 

 this purpose. 







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A List of the Musci and Hepaticse collected in Kerguelen's 

 Island by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, A.M. By William Mitten, 



A.L.S. 



[Read March 2, 1876.] 



As nearly all the specimens were obtained from four localities, to 

 avoid repetition, it will suffice to indicate the occurrence of the 

 species in each by a single letter, thus : — R., Royal Sound, visited 

 on the 20th October 1874 ; S., Swain's Bay, 16th January 1875 ; 

 V., Vulcan Cove, 6th January 1875 : and C, Hill KW. of Mt. 

 Crozier, 6th January 1875. 



Musci. 



Cynontooium coxicum, Mont. (Aschistodon.) 



V., C, without fruit. 



C. Hookeri, C. Muller, Syn. i. 450. (Leptotrichum.) 



R., with old fruit and young setae. 



Anisothecium vaginatum, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 141. (Dieramim.) 



S., small and barren. 



Blindia curviseta, Mitt. Muse. Aust.-Amer. 56. 



R., with young and partly ripe capsules; fine specimens. 



Dicranum kerguelense, C. Mullet \ Syn. i. 370. 



R., in large tufts without fruit. 



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