THE BOTANY OF GOUGH ISLAND. 249 
Distribution. Tristan da Cunha. America south of Cuba, 
South Africa, Mascarene Islands, Amsterdam Island, Australia, 
and Polynesia. 
AcRrosTICHUM CONFORME, Swartz, Syn. Fil. pp. 10 & 192, t. 1. 
fig. 1; Carmich. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xii. (1818) 
p. 509; Hook. § Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 401; Hemsl. Chall. 
Bot. i. u. p. 169. A. laurifolium, Thou. Esq. Fl. Trist. 
p. 31. 
Varies a little in the degree of scaliness, but the Gough 
Island plant is identical with other specimens from Tristan da 
Cunha. 
Distribution. Tristan da Cunha. St. Helena and throughout 
the southern hemisphere. 
List of References. 
CARMICHAEL, Captain DuaArp.—Some Account of the Island of 
Tristan da Cunha and its Natural Productions. Trans. Linn. 
Soe. Lond., vol. xii. (1818) pp. 483-513. 
Hemstey, W. BorrING.— Report on the Voyage of H.M.S. 
* Challenger, 1873-1876, i. 11. (1885) pp. 133 e£ segg. 
MosxrEy, H. N.— Notes by a Naturalist on the * Challenger,’ 
1879. Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond., Bot. vol. xiv. p. 377. 
Dv Prrrr-Tuovans, AvnEnT.— Description abrégée des Isles de 
Tristan d'Acugna et Esquisse de la Flore de l'Isle de Tristan 
d’Acugna: Mélanges de Botanique et de Voyages, Premier 
Recueil, 1811. 
VERRILL, G. E.—Notes on Birds and Eggs from Islands of 
Gough, Kerguelen, and South Georgia. Transactions of 
the Connecticut Academy, ix. (1895) part 2. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Prate 7. 
Phylica nitida and Spartina arundinacea on Gough Island.  Waterworn stems 
of Lomaria Boryana on the beach. 
(From a photograph by W. S. Bruce.) 
