8 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Auckland and 



plerumque superantibus ad furcaturam pedicelloque unico medium versus 2-bracteatis, bracteis 

 ovatis acutis scariosis albidis, petalis 5 bipartitis calycem sequantibus interdum eo brevioribus v. nullis 

 filamentisque ima basi dilatatis fere hypogynis, stylis 3 — Hook.fil. in Icon. Plant, vol. vii. t. 680. 



Hab. Lord Auckland's and Campbell's Islands ; common on the low grounds, especially in the 

 woods, and near the sea. 



Caules tetragoni, e basi valde ramosi, filiformes, 3-5 unc. longi. Folia carnosula, 3-5 lin. longa, obovata 

 seu rhomboidea, hincinde, siccitate, minute tuberculata. Pe/ioli 1-3 lin. longi, latiusculi. Pedunaili folio ple- 

 rumque longiores, solitarii, raro uniflori, biridi seu trifidi ; ramis inaequalibus. Petala saepe 0. 



In many respects this agrees with the S. uliginosa, Murr., and more particularly in the size and 

 arrangement of the inflorescence, but the stems are always decumbent, the leaves all petiolate, very patent or 

 recurved, and not at all broader or ovate at the base ; their callous apices are common to both species. The 

 peduncles generally bear two pedicels, which have a pair of bracts at the base, and a pair on one of the pedi- 

 cels, whereas in S. uliginosa the peduncle is trichotomously divided, with the intermediate pedicel only desti- 

 tute of bracts. The styles seem to be constantly three, and the stamens and petals are less decidedly perigy- 

 nous than in the latter plant. In form the leaves resemble those of S. media, With., but the inflorescence is 

 very different, and the stem wants the alternate line of hairs. 



2. Stellaria media, With. — Engl. Bot. t. 53/. DeC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 396. Alsine, L. 



Hab. Lord Auckland's Islands ; covering the tomb of a French sailor, and growing along 

 with Poa annua, L. : undoubtedly introduced. A straggling, very common European form of the 

 plant, still retaining all its characters. 



IV. DROSERACEiE, DeC. 

 1. Drosera (sp.) ? 



Hab. Lord Auckland's group ; on the hills. — Of this I only once met with a solitary speci- 

 men, scarcely in flower, resembling a good deal the D. uniflora, Willd., of Tierra del Fuego ; but it 

 was lost among the many botanical rarities brought down to the ship on that day, so that I am only 

 able to record the fact of a species of the genus growing on the island. 



V. GERANIACE.E, DeC. 



1. Geranium microphyllum, Hook. fil. ; pusillum, adpresse pubescens, caulibus adscendentibus, 

 foliis omnibus longe petiolatis orbiculari-reniformibus 5-7-lobatis, lobis trifidis subtus discoloribus, 

 pedunculis lateralibus solitariis v. binis elongatis unifloris supra medium bibracteolatis, petalis 

 (albis) obovato-cuneatis integris v. retusis, glandulis ad basin staminum fere obsoletis, filamentis 

 ciliatis, stylis brevibus, ovario piloso. (Tab. V.) 



Hab. Lord Auckland's group; in boggy places, alt. 1000 feet. 



Radix perennis, multiceps, ad collum squamosa ; squamis vaginantibus, ovatis, membranaceis, fuscis, 

 nitidis. Caules ex eadem radice 3-4, 3-5 unc. longi, nudiusculi, decumbentes, deinde adscendentes, parce 

 pilosi, crassitie pennae passerinae, internodiis remotis. Folia radicalia longissime petiolata, i unc. lata, supra, 

 et subtus (prsecipue ad nervos) adpresse pilosa ; lobis lato-cuneatis, obtusis, 3-fidis, segmentis latis acutis ; 

 laete viridia, subtus fusco-purpurea. Pelioli graciles, filiformes, 2 unc. longi, basi stipulis vaginati, inferne 



