30 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
ledonous species, a composite plant of Magelhaen's Straits, 
Lasiorrhiza purpurea, Lessing. The other plant is the glory 
of the Auckland group of Islands, here referred to Melantha- 
ceæ, and called Veratrum Dubouzeti, but in the October num- 
ber of the “ Flora Antarctica," it stands as Chrysobactron 
Rossii, Hook. fil. 'The insertion of the leaves, where they are 
supposed to be represented of the natural size, and still more, 
the reduced figure of the entire plant (f. c, 7), are extremely 
unlike the noble specimens now before us, where the leaves 
are much sheathing around a stout and very succulent stem. 
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships, 
Eresus and Terror, in the years 1839-43, under the 
command of CAPTAIN Sir James CLark Ross, Kt. R.N., 
&c., by Josepn Darron Hooker, M.D., R.N., F.L.S., 
Assistant Surgeon of the Erebus, and Botanist to the Ex-. 
pedition. 
Part I. FLORA ANTARCTICA. 
1. Botany of Lord Auckland's group and CampbelPs Island. 
As announced in our 2nd vol. p. 275, the first number of 
this voyage was published on the 1st of June, 1844,and it has, 
with the interruption of one month only, on account of the 
great labour on the plates, continued to appear regularly to 
the present period. Consequently six numbers, or parts, are 
issued, and it is incumbent upon us to give some account of 
them. The Flora Antarctica, properly so called, as distin- 
guished from the Floras of New Zealand and Van Diemen’s 
Land, which will form part of the “ Botany of the Voyage,” 
is divided into two portions: viz. 1, the Flora of Lord Auck- 
land's group and CampbelPs Island ; and 2, the Flora of the 
Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego (with the adjacent portion 
of the continent of South America) and the other antarctic - 
islands. The first of these two sections is here treated of; 
and the work opens with a summary of the voyage, accom- 
