BOTANY 



OF 



THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE. 



FLORA ANTARCTICA. 



I. LORD AUCKLAND'S GROUP AND CAMPBELL'S ISLAND. 



Under this head will be considered the Botany of the few small islands which lie to 

 the south of New Zealand, at least so far as have hitherto been examined. Of these, 

 the two most important, Lord Auckland's group, in 50|° S. lat, 166° E. long., and 

 Campbell's Island, lat. 52±° S. and long. 169° E., were visited by the "Erebus and 

 Terror," and the former also by the French and American Discovery Ships*. 



Upon M c Quarrie's Island, lat. 55° S., long. 159° E., a very few plants have been 

 collected, which are deposited in the herbarium of Mr. Brown, and some in that of Sir 

 William Hooker, at Kew. I am not aware that any account has been published of these 

 islands, nor of Emerald Island (lat. 57° S., long. 163° E.), the botany of which is en- 

 tirely unknown, but which probably in this meridian constitutes the southern extreme of 

 terrestrial vegetation. Floating masses of Macrocyslis and D'Urvilltea are found, how- 

 ever, living and growing on the limits of the pack-ice, as far as the parallel of 64° S. 



The Flora of these islands is closely related to that of New Zealand, and does 

 not partake in any of those features which characterize Australian vegetation. Most 

 of the plants may indeed be presumed to exist on the unexplored mountains, especially 

 those of the middle and southern islands, of New Zealand ; but others are doubtless 

 peculiar to those higher southern latitudes which they inhabit, thus being analogous to 



* A few of the plants collected by the French have been published by two of the officers of Admira' 

 D'Urville's Expedition, under the title of ' Voyage au Pole Sud, Botanique.' 



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