FalMands, etc.] FLORA ANTAECTICA. 225 



meter ; in others from Valdivia they are double that size, and even larger have been gathered by Mr. Cruickshanks 

 near Valparaiso. It does not appear to inhabit the east coast of Patagonia ; but I have examined what I take to be 

 a mutilated specimen, collected by Mr; Darwin in the central regions of that country near the river Santa Cruz, which 

 flows from the Andes to the Atlantic. 



4. Ranunculus peduncularis, Sm. m Sees Cyclop. BC. Syst. Teg. vol. i. p. 294. Prodr. vol. i. p. 41. 

 Deless. Icon. vol. i. t. 42. Hook, and Am. in Pot. Miscett. vol. iii. p. 134. 



Hab. Strait of Magalliaens ; in the margins of woods ; Commerson. Cape Negro ; C. Barwin, Esq. 



Closely allied to the last species, from which it seems constantly to differ in the narrow segments of the leaves, 

 and the stouter and uniformly erect habit. The whole plant is more or less clothed with hairs, the Strait of 

 Magalhaens specimens less so than those from more northern localities. It appears to be common in Chili on the 

 western flanks of the Cordilleras, whence Dr. Gillies procured it at an altitude of 5000 feet, and Mr. Bridges 

 upon the east slopes of that range, but it is not a native of the Atlantic side of South America. The R. poly- 

 petalus, Gillies MSS., is quoted in the Botanical Miscellany as a state of this species ; it may be distinguished, 

 perhaps specifically, by the smaller size of the leaves, which are all radical, and their segments so remote that the 

 leaf is truly pinnate, the scape too is single-flowered, and it approaches more nearly to a Peruvian species. 



5. Ranunculus Maclovianus, D'Urv. ; aeaulis v. subaeaulis, appresse pilosus, foliis raclicalibus longe 

 petiolatis erectis reniformi-rotundatis trifiilis trilobatisve segrnentis grosse et acute dentatis, pedunculis folio 

 brevioribus e ramulis abbreviatis ortis, sepalis villosis, petalis flavis spathulatis, capitulo globoso, carpellis 

 glabriusculis, stylo brevi subuncinato. R. Maclovianus, B'Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 615. 

 Gaud, in Freyc. Toy. Pot. p. 136. R. parvihorus, Gaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 105. 



Hab. Falkland Islands; moist places, abundant; Gaudieliand , B'Urville, J. D. H. and Br. By all. 



Caulis nullus v. abbreviatus. Folia fere omnia radicalia ; petioli 2-6 unc. longi, graciles, suberecti ; lamina 

 basi profunde cordata, -j- § imc. lata, pilis flavis sericeis utrinque tecta. Pedtinculi 3-5, rarius solitarii, a_a unc. 

 longi, erecti, radicales v. e ramis abbreviatis orti. Sepala 5, ovata, obtusa, trinervia, demum subreflexa. Petala 

 sepalis longiora, medio squama instructa. Carpella ovata, turgida, glabra v. laxe et sparse pilosa. 



This plant is most nearly allied to the R. ChUemis, which I have noticed as a very variable species, but the 

 present is smaller and more slender in all its parts, the leaves are all radical and it never creeps. "Walpers (Eepertor. 

 vol. i. p. 44), erroneously quotes, as a variety of this, the R. e.viffieus, D'Urv., which is, however, certainly a state of 

 R. biternatus, Sm. 



6. Ranunculus sericocepJialus, Hook. fil. ; depressus, acaulis, totus pilis fulvis sericeis dense vestitus, 

 foliis raclicalibus stellatim patentibus orbiculari-renifonnibus irregulariter 3-7-fidis lobis grosse crenato-den- 

 tatis, pedunculis brevissimis, floribus parvis inconspicuis, carpellis dense sericeis. (Tab. LXXXIII.) 



Hab. Falkland Islands; on moist banks with the former; Mr. Chartres, J. B.H. and Dr. Lyall. 



Planta pusilla, depressa, valde inconspicua, tota pilis flavis sericeis patentibus tecta. Caules brevissimi v. 

 nulli. Folia stellatim patentia, petiolo A unc. longo ; lamina basi cordata, plerumque 5-fida, rarius trifida v. trilo- 

 bata, snbeoriacea, a unc. lata. Flares inter foha subsessiles ; pedicelh interdmn e ramis brerissimis orti. Sepala 

 late ovata, intus 3-nervia, patentia. Petala angnste spathidata, obtusa, flava, versus medium squama parva instructa. 

 Carpella phis patentibus obtecta ; stylo brevi uncinate 



Though in many respects closely allied to the former, this seems to me quite a different species ; while 



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