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ROSACEA. 



Acaena sanguisorbae, Valil. 



Accena sanguisorbae, Vahl, Enum., i. p. 294 ; Hook, f., Handb. FL N. Zeal., p. 56. 



Amsterdam Island. — Beginning at an altitude of about 400 feet, where only a few- 

 plants are seen ; but it ascends to the summit, becoming commoner in the higher parts — 

 De I'lsle. 



Common in New Zealand and Tasmania ; also occurring in Lord Auckland's group, 

 and Campbell and Macquarie Islands, as well as in the Tristan da Cunha group. In 

 Marion and Kerguelen Islands it is represented by the allied Accena adscendens. 



UMBELLIFERiB. 

 Apium australe, Thouars. 



Apium australe, Thouars, Esquisse Fl. Trist., p. 43; Benth., FL Austr., iii. p. 372; Hook, f., Handb. 

 Fl. N. Zeal., p. 90. 



St Paul. — On the low sands, and in a stunted condition on the summit of the moun- 

 tain — Milne and MacGillivray ; Smith. 



Amsterdam Island. — Only in humid places on the sea-shore — De VIsle, 45. 



South temperate zone. 



The Amsterdam plant is much slenderer than our other insular specimens, though not 

 so slender as some of the New Zealand and Australian forms. 



Among the plants collected by Sir G. Staunton in St Paul Island is a fragment which 

 Sir J. D. Hooker doubtingly referred to the genus Azorella; nothing, however, of this 

 affinity was collected by MacGillivray and Milne, or by the naturalists of the French 

 expedition. 



CONVOLVULACEiE. 

 Calystegia sepium, K. Br. 



Calydegia sepium, R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl., p. 483 ; Hook, f., Handb. Fl. N. Zeal., p. 197. 

 Convolvulus sepium, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 153. 



St Paul Island. — Abundant about fifty yards from the margin of the basin— Milne. 

 Widely diffused in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. This does not appear to 

 have been collected by either the French or the Austrian expeditions. 



PLANTAGINEJ3. 



Plantago stauntoni, Reichardt. (Plates XLL, XLII. — A.) 



Plantago stauntoni, Reichardt in Verhandl. d. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, xxi. Abhandl. pp. 8 et 33. 



St Paul Island. — All over the island — MacGillivray and Milne; growing in the 

 elevated parts of the island — De VIsle ; without any observations — Lieut. Smith. 



