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flowers were unnoticed until the plant was esamined somewhat 
closely. I unite with this your Gentiana concinna from Campbell 
Island. All the specimens of @. concinna observed had self- 
coloured flowers, red, purple, and white, but none were streaked. 
G. cerina was plentiful on Shoe Island, Ross Island, &c., and on 
the hills up to 1200 feet at Carnley Harbour, the flowers being 
self-coloured white, red, or purple, or less frequently streaked ; it 
is a lovely plant. 
Chrysobactron Rossii was past flowering, so also Pleurophyllum 
eriniferum ; P. Gilliesianum was nearly past, P. speciosum at its 
maximum. I did not see Buchanan’s P. Hookeri, which seems to 
be identical with P. Hombronii, Decne., judging from the de- 
seription and plates in * Voy. au Póle Sud,’ and Trans. N. Zeal. 
Inst. xvi. t. 37, and that again in all probability is P. criniferum ; 
both, however, show globular flower-heads, while in P. erini- 
Serum they are discoid. P. Gilliesianum has globular heads; but 
the scapes are always naked, and the leaves differ widely from 
those represented by either drawing. I found the leaves of 
P. criniferum invariably petiolate, the petiole sometimes 8 to 
12 inches long or more; you describe them as amplexicaul: it 
maintains the petiolate character under cultivation in Ch. Traill’s 
garden at Stewart Island. There appear to be two well-marked 
forms of P. speciosum. The Aackland Island plant has whitish 
or pale ray-florets, and the leaves have no moniliform hairs; the 
Campbell Island form has violet-coloured ray-florets, and the 
leaves produce moniliform hairs profusely on the upper surface. 
These differences have been constant under cultivation during 
twelve years. 
The Dracophyllum scoparıum of Campbell Island is endemic, 
the plant referred by New Zealand botanists to that species 
being very different. The island plant has the habit of Cupressus 
sempervirens, and possesses good claims to specific distinction. 
Buchanan is in error in referring the Chatham Island plant to 
this form. There are two forms of Dracophyllum longifolium on 
the islands, one with terminal racemes, the other with lateral. 
Hypolepis Millefolium is frequent ; I think there can be little 
doubt as to its identity with Polypodium rugulosum, which attains 
to a large size. 
The island form of Ranunculus pinguis differs from any thing 
we have on the mainland in the large heads of fruit, pale colour, 
and lobulate teeth. The mainland plant, whether glabrous 
or hairy, is nearly always branched; branched specimens are 
