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annuos emittens. Folia longe petiolata, crassiuscula, herbacea, 
cordato-ovata, absque petiolo 4-14 poll. longa, vix acuta, basi 
cordata vel rotundata, integra vel sspe grosse paucidentata 
(utrinque dentibus 3-4), vix hispidula, venis primariis lateralibus 
utrinque 2-3 sat conspicuis; petiolus gracillimus, laminam sæpe 
æquans vel interdum excedens. Flores subsecundi, pollicares, in 
racemos breves densos dispositi, brevissime pedicellati, bracteis 
foliaceis parvis ovatis petiolatis muniti; calyx puberulus; 
corolla puberula, arcuata, tubo gracili ; stamina inclusa. Nuculæ 
ignotae. 
Ziarat. 
Similar to S. grossa, Wall., but having a more woody caudex, 
slenderer flowering-stems, and slenderly petiolate few-toothed or 
entire leaves. 
— 
Report on a Botanical Visit to Lord Auckland, Campbell, Anti- 
podes, and other Antarctic Islands, in a Letter from Tuomas 
Kirk, F.L.S., Chief Conservator of State Forests, New 
Zealand, to Sir JosePuH D. Hooker, K.CS.1., F.R.S., F.L.S. 
(Communicated by the latter.) 
[Read 15th January, 1891.] 
Wellington, New Zealand, 
My prar Hooker, Sept. 6th, 1890. 
Ihave been to the Auckland Islands, and give a few short 
notes on my trip, which I am vain enough to think will interest 
you. Unhappily the trip was a very hasty one, only a few hours 
ashore at any one place; so that I only got fairly on the hills at 
Carnley Harbour; yet I succeeded in picking all the recorded 
flowering-plants and ferns, except some twelve or fourteen to be 
mentioned presently. We landed at the Snares, Port Ross, 
Ewing, and Rose Islands, and on the site of Enderby’s Settlement, 
Carnley Harbour, Campbell Island, and Antipodes Island. I 
made some small additions, including a few novelties. The fol- 
lowing are the plants found by you, but not seen by me :— 
Ranunculus acaulis. “ Catabrosa ” antarctica. 
R. subseaposus. Hymenophyllum demissum. 
Colobanthus subulatus. H. flabellatum. 
Myosotis antaretica. H. rarum. 
Urtica aucklandica. Todea superba. 
Gaimardia ciliata. Polypodium Grammitidis. 
Deschampsia cæspitosa, with Lycopodium seariosum. 
1-flowered spikelets, Lomaria lanceolata. 
LINN, JOURN.— BOTANY, VOL. XXVIII. 2D 
