Falklands, etc.'] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 263 



are narrower and more acute than in the ordinary Chilian form, but are in this respect undistinguishable from some 

 collected by Gillies ; the carpels of the two are identical. The G. elatum, of Kamaon, judging from Dr. WaUich's 

 specimens, does not at first sight appear to differ from this, except in the comparatively smaller terminal and the 

 sessile lateral lobes of the leaf. Dr. Royle has placed it in Sieversia, to which genus Mr. Edgeworth assures me 

 that it belongs. The nearest, but evidently distinct, species allied to G. Magellanicum are G. Pyrenaicum, easily 

 recognised by the great size of its carpels, and G. sylvaticum of the South of France and Spain, which is a 

 single-flowered plant. 



2. Geum parviftorum, Commerson ; velutino-pubescens, rliizomate crasso, foliis radicalibus interrapte 

 pimiatisectis lobo terminali rotundato obscure 5-lobato crenato lateralibus 2-3-jugis multoties minoribus, 

 pedunculis folio brevioribus elongatisve pubescentibus folia 2-3 lyrato-pimiatifida gerentibus, floribus 4-5 

 ad apicem pedunculi sessilibus nutantibus folio iiivolucratis, petalis lacixdis calycinis subsequantibus albis? 

 ovarii stylo hamato, carpellis pilosis. G. ? parviflorum, Commerson ex Smith in Rees Cycl. vol. v. p. 16. 

 BC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 553. Bon, Encycl. vol. ii. p. 527. G. involucratum, Juss. Herb, in Pers. Each. 

 vol. ii. p. 57. BC. et Bon, 1. c. 



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



Rhizoma pollicem crassum. Folia fere omnia radicalia, patentia, 1-i— 2 una longa, pilis fulvis dense velutina, 

 lobo terminali J unc. lato, plicato, lateralibus irregulariter ineiso-dentatis. Pedunculi 3, unico foliis breviore, cseteris 

 elongatis erectis ter longioribus, omnes basi nudi, apices versus folia 1-2 gerentes. Flores in capitulum aggi'egati, 

 sub J- una diametro, albi (fid. Commerson). Calycis lacinise 6, oblougse, obtusas, bracteolis lineari-oblongis. Petala 

 late elliptico-spathulata, obtusa, glaberrima. Ovaria dense hirsuta, stylo curvato apice hamato terminata. 



A little known and probably very rare plant. I have seen but one specimen, in Capt. King's collection, winch 

 I have compared with that in the Linnsean Herbarium ; its general appearance resembles a small state of G. Ma- 

 gellanicum, but the leaves are densely velvetty on the surface and the flowers very different ; Commerson says the 

 latter are white, in which respect, as in their size, the form of the petals, &c, there is a close affinity with the 

 Sieversia? albiflora (vol. i. p. 9. t. vii.), a plant which may possibly in an older state have hooked awns to the 

 carpels, which these decidedly are. I am inclined to consider this the representative of the Auckland Island 

 species, as the G. Magellanicum is of a similar New Zealand one. Though the descriptions of G. involucratum are 

 very unsatisfactory, I have little doubt but that they refer to this plant as above described, which seems to have 

 been first published in France and afterwards in England. The description of Smith being the fullest, and his having 

 adopted Commerson's own name induce me to retain that of 67. parviflorum. In the flower I examined there were 

 six divisions to the calyx. 



3. RUBUS, Linn. 



1. Rubus geoides; Smith, Icon. ined. t. 19. Hook. Icon. Plant, t. 495. R. antarcticus, Banks et 

 Solander, MSS. et Icon. inMus. Brit. Dalibarda geoides, Pen. Euch. vol. ii. p. 53. BC. Prodr. vol. ii. 

 p. 568. Gaud, in Ann. So. Nat. vol. iv. p. 106. et in Freyc. Toy. Bot. p. 138. B'Urrille, in Mem. Soc. 

 Liiui. Paris, vol. iv. p. 620. Framboise, Pernetty, Toy. vol. ii. p. 58. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Commerson. Port Famine ; Capt. King. Good Success Bay; Banks and 

 Solander. Falkland Islands ; abundant on the bills. 



There are few Rosacea in the temperate latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere. The genus Rulrns, in parti- 

 cular, hardly exists in South America; a very remarkable circmnstance, since Australia, New Zealand, and the 

 Cape of Good Hope possess more species than extra-tropical South America, though those countries are more dis- 



