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speciosum, Hook. fil. described in the July number of the 
* Flora Antarctica," and figured in the August number. 
Tab. 7 is devoted to two plants: 1, Calucechinus antarctica, 
Hombr. et Jacquinot, a form of the old Fagus antarctica 
(statu proceä) ; and 2, Calusparassus betuloides, Hombr. et 
Jacquinot. If by this latter is meant the Fagus betuloides, 
Mirbel, we have already expressed a doubt, in the first series 
of this Journal, vol. ii, p. 157, if it be distinct from F. Forsteri, 
Hook. (Betula antarctica, Forst.), and we see nothing to alter 
our opinion in the present figure. Tab. 8 exhibits: 1, Calus- 
parassus Pumilio, Hombr. et Jacquinot ; and 2, Calucechinus 
Montagni, Hombr. et Jacquinot; and we must be pardoned, 
ifin the absence of any descriptive matter, we venture our 
belief that we have here again representations of our old 
friends, the former, Fagus antarctica, and the latter, Fagus 
Forsteri. Thus, if we are correct in our views, the six figures 
on the three folio plates, all from the Straits of Magelhaens, 
only exhibit forms of two different plants. Such variations 
may even almost be seen on one and the same tree, depend- 
ing much on the age and the several modifications of the leaf 
and capsule, and the number of divisions at the mouths of 
the male perianth. Tab. 9 exhibits an admirable figure of 
the well-known (even in cultivation) Veronica decussata, 
Willd., from Magelhaen's Straits (V. elliptica, Forst), in 
flower and fruit ; and on the same plate, Veronica finaus- 
trina* Hombr. and Jacquinot (Auckland Islands), which is 
identical with Veronica Benthami, Hook. fil. in the September 
number of the “Flora Antarctica.” Excellent as are the 
figures of the natural size, we cannot pay the same compli- 
ment to the reduced representations of the entire plant, whe- 
ther on this or other plates. Tab. 4, though headed “ Mono- 
cotylédones Phanérogames,” contains, besides the Monocoty- 
* We are puzzled to understand the derivation of this word ; for, if com- 
Pounded of finis and auster, as if Lord Auckland's were the southern limits 
of the genus, it is a manifest inaccuracy, inasmuch, as is well known, the 
V. decussata, Wiild., represented on the same plate, is found several degre 
