Campbell's Islands.] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 57 



rectus, calyce sub \ longior ; limbus explanatus, lobis rotundatis, venosis, intense cyaneis, alabastris rubris ; faux 

 glandulis fornicatis, medio superne emarginatis fere clausa. Stamina 5, inclusa, apicibus solummodo antherarum 

 exsertis, filamentis brevibus. Nuculic4, basifixa?, immatura? late ovata?, acuta?, piano compressa?, dorso convex- 

 iuscula?, intus medio obscure carinatse, marginibus acutis, sub-ancipitibus ; pericarpium subcrustaceum, tenue, 

 fuscum. Stylus elongatus, gracilis, stigmate clavato, obtuso, exserto terminatus. 



This is a very pretty species, though not quite so handsome as its near congener, M . alpestris, Schm., from 

 which it differs at first sight in the smaller corollas, which are of a deep violet-blue, as in M. Azorica, H. Wats. 

 It may I think be distinguished from any of the species of this difficult genus by the dense capitate racemes, 

 together with the narrow calyces and calycine segments and the long tube of the corolla. Another allied species, 

 the M.fulva, Hook, and Arn., which inhabits the west coasts both of extratropical North and South America, 

 chiefly differs from this in the shorter tube of the white corolla, and in the calyces being densely covered with 

 silky fulvous or pale brown hairs. 



Plate XXXVII. Fig. 1, a flower ; fig. 2, corolla laid open ; fig. 3, young achaenia and style ; fig. 4, dorsal, 

 and fig. 5, anterior view of acha?nia nearly mature : — all magnified. 



2. Myosotis antarctica, Hook. fil. ; parvula, caespitosa, caulibus plurimis confertis prostratis 

 v. ascendentibus foliosis, foliis obovato-oblongis subhispido-pilosis basi latis, floribus raris in axillis 

 foliorum superiorum solitariis breviter pedicellatis, calycis segmentis lineari-subulatis obtusis, corolla? 

 tubo calyce bis longiore limbo patente. (Tab. XXXVIII.) 



Hab. Campbell's Island; on the debris at the base of precipices in the most exposed places 

 along with Cardamine stellata, and in clefts of rock on the very summits of the mountains. 



Radix perennis, brevis, subfusiformis, descendens, aterrima, multiceps, copiosissime fibrosa, fibris ramosis 

 fasciculatis. Caules plurimi, abbreviati, 1 unc. longi vel breviores, undique patentes, subrigidi, parce ramosi, 

 foliosi, interiores ascendentes, vetustiores prostrati, emortui anni prateriti longiores. Folia conferta, basi 

 intcrdum imbricata, horizontaliter patentia, subcoriacea, obovato-oblonga, obtusa, inferiora et radicalia majora, 

 vix # unc. longa, 2-4 lin. lata, supra medium uninervia, subhispido-pilosa, pilis albidis appressis, subtus glabri- 

 uscula, pilis paucis, laxis, patentibus, versus basim latam glabra, marginibus ciliatis, vetustiora pilis sparsis, rigidis, 

 basi globoso-incrassatis, demum deciduis obsita. F/ores 4-6, parvi, inconspicui, vix racemosi, terminales solum- 

 modo in spicani nudam dispositi, 3-4 inferiores in axillis foliorum supremorum solitarii, subsessiles v. breviter 

 pedicellati, plerumque inter folia occlusi. Calyx cylindraceus, segmentis corolla i brevioribus, § lin. longis, 

 pilosis, pilis elongatis, fructiferis subfuliaceis. Corolla tubus cylindraceus, elongatus, limbo explanato, lobis 

 concavis, obovato-rotundatis, azureis, venosis. Stamina 5 ; filamentis brevibus, incurvis, subulatis ; antheris 

 majusculis. Ovaria 4, parva, sessilia. Stylus filiformis, stigmate simplice clavato terminatus. Nuculte 4, 

 unico v. pluribus abortivis, valde compressa?, ancipites v. subbialata?, ovata?, acuta?, dorso convexiuscula?, intus 

 planiores, medio subcarinata?. Pericarpium tenue, crustaceum, atrum, nitidum, la?ve. Testa membranacea. 

 Embryo majusculus, compressus ; radicula parva, supera; cotyledonibus majusculis, plano-convexis. 



This is a very small species^ typical of a high latitude and rigorous climate, preferring also those localities 

 where few other plants but lichens and mosses can exist. It is remarkable as belonging to a small section of 

 the genus, apparently confined to the islands of New Zealand, of which the M. spathulata, Forst., is the type. 

 These have many of the lower flowers solitary in the axils of the uppermost leaves, and the true ebracteate 

 raceme reduced to a very short and few-flowered spike. 



The leaves of several of the New Zealand species of Boraginece so closely resemble one another in form, 



that unless good flowering specimens are examined, two genera may easily be considered as belonging to one 



and the same plant. Such are a species of Exarrhena, Br., and the M. spathulata of A. Richard. The latter 



is a very distinct plant from either M. capitata or M. antarctica, as also from the true spathulata of Forster, 



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