302 FLORA ANTARCTICA. \Fuegia, the 



riforin tissue ; e, slender tissue between the layers of scalariform tissue ; c, e and d ', refer to the same tissues of 

 the inner wedge of wood : — all very highly magnified. 



XXIII. RUBIACE^E, Jim. 

 1. GALIUM, L. 



1. Galium Aparine, Linn.; DC. Prodi: vol. iv. p. 608. Engl. Bot. t. 816. 



Hab. Strait of Magalliaens, Port Famine and Port Gregory, Capt. King ; Good Success Bay, Banks 

 and Solander. 



This, which is undoubtedly the common English "Cleavers," appears truly wild in Fuegia, having been found 

 at three very remote stations, two of them scarcely visited by Europeans ; it is also a native of the Island of Chiloe, 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, and in North America it ranges between the latitudes of Fort Vancouver and the Missis- 

 sippi River. 



2. Galium Chilense, Hook, fil.; ammum, scaberuhun, caule debili sirnpliciusculo, foliis quinis senisve 

 patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis in aristam acuuiinatis super marginibus nervoque dorso retrorsum scaberulis, 

 pediuiculis umfloris solitariis florentibus brevissimis fructiferis validis folio subtequilongis, fructibus hispido- 

 pilosis. 



Hab. Clionos Archipelago ; C. Darwin, Esq. 



Caitles implexi, spithamsei, angulis scaberulis ; ramis divaricatis. Folia subflaccida, -i— i lmc - longa, internodiis 

 i breviora. 



This cannot be confounded with any other of the few one-flowered species of this genus. 



3. Galium Fuegianum, Hook, fil.; annmim?, gkbriusculuni, caulibus suberectis raniosis glaberrimis, 

 foliis quaternis elliptico-oblongis acutis obscure 3-nervibus marginibus scaberulis supremis liispidulis, 

 pedunculis terminalibus ternis uniiloris florentibus brevissimis fructiferis validis elongatis, fructibus hispido- 

 pilosis. 



Hab. Strait of Magalliaens; Port Famine, Copt. King; Cape Negro and south part of Fuegia, 

 C. Darwin, Esq.. 



Caules spithamsei, glaberrimi, ramosi ; ramis suberectis. Folia \ unc. longa, subcoriacea, interdum sed rarius 

 parce pilosa. 



This approaches the G. triflorum, Mich., of the northern hemisphere, but may readily be distinguished by the 

 quaternate leaves and the invariably simple peduncles. 



4. Galium Magellan! cum, Hook, fil.; pereime?, caule suberecto parce ramoso ad angulos minutissinie 

 hispidulo, foliis quinis lineari-lanceolatis acutis glaberrimis marginibus re urvis scaberulis, pedunculis 

 axillaribus plerisque solitariis bifioris rarius binis et unifioris, floribus majusculis, fructibus glaberrimis. 



Hab. Strait of Magalliaens ; Cape Negro, C. Darwin, Esq. 



Caules 3-unciales, crecti, uitidi ; ramis erecto-patentibus. Folia patentia, subcoriacea sed non rigida, marginibus 

 vix ac ne vix scaberulis. Flores magnitudine G. borealis, straminei ? Pedunculi fructiferi folio subsequilongi. 



The present is the largest-flowered of any of the Antarctic Galia, all which, except G. Aparine, appear peculiar 

 to the high southern latitudes. 



