FalMands, etc.] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 231 



green shining leaves and very conspicuous golden yellow flowers. The wood is pale yellow, affording a gamboge 

 coloured dye, the berries of a deep steel blue colour, and few in comparison to the size of the flower. 



Plate LXXXVI. Fig. 1, a flower; fig. 2, a petal and stamen removed from the flower; fig. 3, pistil: — all 

 magnified. 



2. Berberis bnxifolia, Lam. ; erecta, ramosa, spinis tripartitis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obovatisve 

 planta juniore majoribus petiolatis pungentibus hie illic spinoso-dentatis seniore minoribus plerumque inte- 

 gerriniis acutis post anthesin coriaceis, pedicellis 1-3-fioris, bacca globosa. B. buxifolia, Lamarck, Ittust. 

 t. 253. f. 3. DC. Sj/st. Yeg. vol. ii. p. 15. Prodr. vol. i. p. 107. Hook, et Am. in Bot. MisceU. vol. iii. 

 p. 136. B. microphylla, Forst. Comm. vol. ix. p. 29. B. dulcis, Sweet, Hort. Britann. 2nd Series, vol. i. 

 t. 100. B. mermis, Ben.? Ench. vol. i. p. 387. DC. Broitr. vol. i. p. 107. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens and throughout Fuegia ; Commerson, and all subsecpient collectors. 



This is a variable species, especially in the foliage, exhibiting a difl'erent aspect at different seasons of the year. 

 In spring, when the flowering commences, fascicles of new leaves are produced, which are pale green, membranous, 

 and entire ; at this period the leaves of the former season begin falling whde those of the present year gradually become 

 larger, stiffer, coriaceous, and generally mueronate or pungent at the apex. They are not fully developed till autumn, 

 when they are generally quite entire, attenuated at the base, and shortly petiolate, about half an inch long, rigid and 

 coriaceous, reticulated on the upper surface ; during the following spring these in their turn fall away. In seedling 

 plants the leaves are larger than at any future time, on long petioles, broader, and here and there furnished with 

 spinous teeth. The flowers are generally in threes, but sometimes solitary, pale yellow. The berries, about the size of 

 a small pea, were much used for tarts by the officers of the ' Beagle ' and found excellent. The B. dtrfcis, of Sweet, 

 agrees with the common form of this plant, except that the flowers are larger in that author's figure and the pubes- 

 cence of the pedicels not visible in the wild specimens. The B. biennis seems a variety, some of the specimens 

 being quite unarmed ; indeed the spines of this genus afford but an inconstant character. 



Plate LXXXVII. (Under the name of B. microphylla). Fig. 1, a flower ; fig. 2, petal and stamen removed 

 from the same ; fig. 3, pistils : — all magnified. 



3. Berberis empetrifolia, Lam. Illustr. t. 253. f. 4. DC. Sj/st. Teg. vol. ii. p. 16. Prodr. vol. i. 

 p. 107. Hook, et Am. in Bot. MisceU. vol. iii. p. 136. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; common in alpine woods ; Commerson. Port Famine ; Copt. King. 



This species is more characteristic of a dry chmate than of the moist wooded country of Fuegia and South- 

 west Chili. The Strait seems to be its southern limit ; it inhabits neither the east nor west coasts, but is confined to 

 the Cordillera itself, from many elevated parts of which range we have received it, gathered by Gillies, Cuming, 

 Macrae, and Bridges ; it very probably therefore is a native of the whole length of that range, from lat. 34.° to lat. 54°, 

 descending to the level of the sea at Port Famine, to which point the mountains are continued in one unbroken 

 chain. 



IV. CRUCIFEILE, Jim. 

 1. ARABIS, L. 



1. Arabis Macloviana, Hook. ; glaberrima, basi ramosa, foliis inferne dentato-serratis radicalibus longe 

 petiolatis oblongis obtusis caulinis sensim minoribus, supremis sessilibus lineari-oblongis, floribus in corym- 

 bum densum dispositis, sepalis obtusis extus hirsutis pedicellurn sequantibus, petalis albis spathulatis, siliquis 



