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It was during Cook's second voyage that he was accompanied by the two Forsters, men 

 whose names are inseparably connected with the subject of Antarctic Botany. They visited 

 New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego, making important collections at both, excellent drawings, 

 and finally publishing two works, which as regards the plants of those countries, must ever 

 be considered as classical ; these are the " Characteres Generum Plantarum Maris Australis," 

 and the " Prodomus Florulse insidarum Australium." Sets of the plants, the drawings, and 

 collections are, as well as those of Cook's thud voyage, deposited in the British Museum. 



Cook's third voyage was not accompanied by any professed naturalist ; all that we know 

 of the flora of South Georgia, and, previous to the visit of the Antarctic Expedition, of the 

 plants of Kerguelen's Land, we owe to Mr. Anderson, the surgeon of that expedition. 



My own Herbarium of Falkland Island plants is particularly rich, and has also received 

 accessions from Mr. Darwin, Captain Sulivan, Mr. Wright, and within the last few days from 

 Mr. Chartres, Surgeon of H. M. S. ' Philomel,' now surveying these islands under the com- 

 mand of Captain Sulivan ; to all of whom I here tender my sincere thanks. 



I. RANUNCULACE^E, Jim. 

 1. ANEMONE, Hatter. 



1. Anemone decapetala, Linn. Want. 79. BC. Syst. Vet/, vol. i. p. 200. Prodrom. vol. i. p. 19. Hook, 

 et Am. Bot. Beechey, p. 3. t. 1. Belessert. Icones, t. 16. et 1. 17. Hook, et Am. in Bot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 133. 

 A. multinda, Poiref, Swppl. vol. i. p. 64. DC. Syst. Teg. vol. i. p. 209. Prodr. vol. i. p. 21. Hook. Flor. 

 Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 7. Torrey and Gray, Flora of North Am. vol. i. p. 13. A. trilobata, Juss. Ann. Mus. 

 vol. iii. p. 2-17. t. 21. f. 3. A. rnacrorhiza, Bombey. (fid. DC). A. triternata, Herb. Beg. Berol. (fid. Herb. 

 Hook.) rum Vahl. A. bicolor, Pa?ppig. (fid. Walpers, vol. i. p. 22.). 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens; Port Famine; Capt. King. Cape Negro and Elizabeth Island; 

 C. Banvin, Esq.. 



Pilosa v. subsericea, spithamea ad \\ ped. alta. Radix tuberosa. Folia 3-5-partita ; segmentis linearibus v. 

 cuneatis, crenatis incisis multifidisve. PedicelU 1-3, miico nudo, caeteris involucellatis. Petala 5-10. Recepta- 

 culum globosuni, demum elongatum, cylindraceum. Aeluenia lanata, stylo lateraH filiformi. 



Rather a variable species and having a very extended range throughout the American continent. I have no 

 hesitation in referring to it all the species quoted above. In North America it abounds from the Arctic circle to 

 the Colombia river on the west coast, and New York on the east. The specimens, especially those from the Rocky 

 Mountains and from Lake Huron, differ from those of the strait of Magalhaens only in having rather larger and 

 more deeply coloured flowers. In South America this plant re-appears in Peru (Dornbey) and in Chili (Brotero) on 

 the west side, and in South Brazil (Sellow) on the east, extending from each as far south as the Strait of Magalhaens. 

 There are eight other South American species of Anemone described, which are — 1. A. triternata, Vahl. ; 2. A. Jiepa- 

 ticifolia, Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1 ; 3. A. Jamesoni, Hook. I.e. t. 670; 4. A. aqidnoctialis, Pceppig. ; 5. A. Antu- 

 censis, Pceppig.; 6. .-/. Sellovii, Pritzil ; 7. A. Helleborifolia, DC; 8. A. sphenop/ii/lla, Pceppig.; the last is pro- 



