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RUBIACE.E. 

 Galium antarcticum, Hook. f. (Plate XL.) 



Galium antarcticum, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., p. 303, Us; Phil. Trans. Roy. Soo. Lond., clxviii. p. 20. 

 Galium trifiJum, Linn.? D'Urv. in M&n. Soc. Linn. Par., iv. p. 612. 



Possession Island. United States Expedition. 

 Fuegia, Falklands, and Kerguelen Island. 



COMPOSITE. 



Cotula plumosa, Hook. f. 



Cotula plumosa, Hook, f., Handb. Fl. N. Zeal., p. 141, et in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., clxviii 



p. 21. 

 Leptinella plumosa, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i. p. 26, t. 20, et ii. p. 308 ; Kidder in Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 



iii. p. 31. 



Possession Island. United States Expedition. 



Kerguelen, Lord Auckland, Campbell, and Macquarie Islands. 



The statement in the Flora Antarctica (ii. p. 308) respecting the distribution of this 

 plant should have beeri, — not found on the American continent. 



CRYPTOGAMS. 



FILICES. 



Lomaria alpina, Spreng. 



Lomaria alpina, Spreng., Syst. Veg., iv. p. G2 ; Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., p. 393, t. 150; Hook., 



Fil. Exot., t. 32 ; Hook, and Bak., Synop. F0., p. 178. 

 Lomaria penna-marina, Mett., ex Kuhn, Fil. Afr., p. 92. 



Possession Island. Captain J. N. East, 1880; United States Expedition. 



Found in nearly all the islands and islets of the Southern Ocean. Fuller synonymy 

 and further particulars of the distribution of this fern are given in the enumeration of the 

 plants of the Tristan da Cunha group. 



Asplenhim obtusatum, Forst. 



Asplenium obtusatum, Forst., Fl. In?. Au-tr. Prodr., p. 80 ; Hook., Fil. Exot., t. 4G ; Hook, and Bak., 

 Synop. Fil., p. 207. 



Possession Island. Captain J. N. East, 1880. 



Independently of the very distinct varieties obliquum and lucid "in, this has a very 

 wide range, extending all round the south temperate zone, including the Tristan da Cunha 

 group as well as Pitcairn and Easter Islands, and, in places, northward into subtropical 



regions. 



(bot. chall. exp. — part ii. — 1881.) B 27 



