252 FLOKA ANTARCTICA. [Fuetfia, the 



2. Geranium intermedium, Bert.? Walpers Repert, Bot. Sgst. vol.i. p. 450. 



Hab. Clionos Archipelago ; C. Darwin, Esq. 



The single and most unsatisfactory specimen may possibly belong to this species, which is very imperfectly defined 

 in the work quoted. Upper portion of stem, caulinc leaf, peduncle, pedicel and calyx, covered with oppressed 

 pubescence, retrorse on the peduncles and petioles, veiy dense upwards on these parts. Petals cuneate, shorter than 

 the sepals, which are attenuated into long aristae. 



3. Geranium Patagonieum, Hook. fil. ; caule erecto pilis albidis patentibus liirsuto, foliis pilosis longe 

 petiolatis orbicularibus 5— 7-partitis laciniis obovato-cuneatis 3-5-fidis segmentis oblongis obtusis subacutisve 

 apieulatis, petiolis pedunculis pedicellisque elongatis retrorsum hispidis, sepalis ovatis in aristam acunrinatis 

 sericeo-pilosis, petalis obovato-cuneatis retusis basi filarnentisque ciliatis, carpellis laevibus aristisque patentim 

 pilosis, seminibus oblongis piceis, testa reticulata. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens, Port Famine ; Capt. King. 



Species 67. Caroliniano proxima, sed differt petalis calyce duplo longioribus. Caules 7 unc. ad pedalem, interne 

 patentim superue retrorsum pilosi, paree ramosi. Folia 1-j imc. lata, pilosa, rarius glabriuscula, segmentis ultimis 

 apicibus rotundatis apieulatis acutisve ; petiolis interdiun 3 unc. longis. Pedunculi infirm petiolis longiores, interdum 

 4 unc. longi, supremi breviores, omnes retrorsum pilosi. Mores magnitudine 67. dissecti, sed petala calyce fere \ 

 longiora. Fructus fere 1 unc. longus ; carpellis fuscis, obovatis. 



One of the most ordinary forms of the genus, the species composing which, are perhaps more variable in all their 

 parts and more widely diffused than is generally supposed. Except by the length of its petals, this is not distin- 

 guishable from the G. albicans, St. Hil., and the protean G. Carolinianum of North America : we have the same plant 

 from Monte Video, and Port Desire, but uot from the west coast of South America, and a very similar species from 

 Australia. 



4. Geranium sessilifiorum, Cav. ; subacaule, radice crasso apice pluri-diviso, foliis radicalibus longe 

 petiolatis appresse sericeo-pubescentibus reniformi-rotundatis 5— 7-partitis laciniis cuneatis 4-7-fidis segmentis 

 obtusis, petiolis retrorsum pilosis, pedunculis e ramis brevibus ortis petiolis multoties brevioribus 1-2 floris, 

 pedicellis dense sericeis, sepalis ovatis subacutis, petalis obcordatis sepalis bis longioribus. G. sessilifloruin, 

 Cav. Diss. vol. iv. p. 198. tab. 77. f. 2. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 639. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Commerson. Cape Negro; C. Darwin, Esq. 



Radix crassitie digitis humanae, superue stipulis persistentibus foliorum delapsorum coronata. Caules breves 

 prostrati, appresse retrorsum pilosi. Folia 5. mic. lata, parce pubescentia, segmentis idtimis obtusis, apieido nullo 

 terminatis ; petiohs 3-unciahbus. Pedunculi crassi, plerumque vix \ unc. longi, sed interdum elongati, 1-2-flori. 

 Flares diametro fere 67. Columbini. Petala obcordata, sepahs bis longiora, basi (filamentaque lata) cihata. 



An easily recognized species in the state I have examined, by its habit, the size of the root, and the short pe- 

 duncles, and branches or stem, which are however characters very liable to vary. Though placed by authors in the 

 single-flowered section as the peduncles often bear two flowers. 



The genus Geranium, though so widely dispersed, hardly inhabits the coldest countries either of the Nor- 

 thern or opposite Hemisphere, the Strait of Magalhaens marking its southern limit in the New, and Lord Auckland's 

 group, or latitude 50°, in the Old World. In Arctic America, no species crosses the parallel of 52° to the east- 

 ward of the rocky mountains, but one (67. eriauthum) reaches Sitka latitude 59° on the west of that range. In Asia 

 that plant inhabits the same latitude in Kamschatka. No European species, except G. sylvaticum (the only Alpine 

 English one), crosses the Arctic circle, while three are found in Iceland, the northern extremity of which stretches to 



