BOTANY 



OF 



THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE. 



FLORA ANTARCTICA. 



II. ANTARCTIC REGIONS, (exclusive of Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island). 



The First Part of the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage is devoted to the vegetation of a few- 

 islands, containing plants so peculiar, and differing so remarkably from those of the other 

 South Polar Islands as to render it advisable that they shoidd be described by themselves, 

 and should form a distinct and separate Flora. A review of this Flora, now completed, shows 

 the vegetation of Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island to be, in some measure, a 

 continuation of that of New Zealand. This fact might have been inferred from the geogra- 

 phical position of those islands, which are moreover the only countries known where the pecu- 

 liar features of the Polynesian Flora are represented by species characteristic of an Antarctic 

 climate ; such features being indicated chiefly by the paucity of Composite and predominance 

 of some shrubby Rubiacece. 



The pages of the present portion of the work are destined to contain descriptions of 

 all the plants ascertained to exist in what we may term the Antarctic regions, (Lord Auckland's 

 and Campbell's Islands excepted), viz. Fuegia and some part of the south-west coast of Pata- 

 gonia, the Falkland Islands, Palmer's Land, and the adjoining groups, as the South Shetlands, 

 South Georgia, &c, and (proceeding eastward) Tristan d'Acunha and Kerguelen's Land. I 

 shall preface the Flora of these widely severed, and in some cases very isolated spots, with a 

 few remarks upon each, and on the general character of the whole as forming one great bota- 

 nical region. 



It may appear paradoxical, at first sight, to associate the plants of Kerguelen's Laud with 



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