Falklands, etc.] FLORA ANTARCTICA. 339 



A very pretty little plant, the representative of the British Pinguicida Ludtanica, L., from which it differs in 

 the narrower segments of the corolla and shorter spur. It is not uncommon on moist rocks iu Fuegia. 



Plate CXIX. Fig. 1, lateral, and fig. 2, front view of flower ; fig. 3, calyx, germen, and stamens ;fig. 4, stamen ; 

 fig. 5, germen ;fig. 6, transverse section of the ovarium ; fig. 7, ripe fruit; fig. 8, seed ;fig. 9, embryo : — all- magnified. 



XXXIX. PLUMBAGINE^E, Juss. 



1. STATICE, Totem. 



Statice Armeria, Linn., Sp.Pl. p. 394. Engl. Bot. t. 226. S. csespitosa, Poiref, Eneycl. p. 235. Gaud, 

 in Ann. Se. Nat. vol. v. p. 1 02. B' TJrv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 606. 

 Var. ft alpina ; Ed. Cat. p. 2. Hook. Brit. El. p. 270. 



Hab. Var. a, Strait of Magalhaens, Commerson ; Port Famine, Capt. King ; Falkland Islands, most 

 abundant near the sea ; Gaudichaud, fye. Var. ft on the mountains of Fuegia, C. Barwin, Esq., J. B. H. 



There can, I think, be no question as to this being identical with the S. Armeria of the northern hemisphere ; if 

 any specific or other distinction exists, it has eluded Mr. Watson's and my examination. Both as an alpine and 

 especially as a sea-side plant, its habits are those of the common Sea-Pink. 



XL. PLANTAGINE.E, Venten. 

 1. PLANTAGO, Linn. 



1. Plantago maritima, Linn., Sp. PL p. 165. Engl. Bot. 1. 175. P. juncoides, Lam. Must. Gen. 

 n. 1683. 



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



I am not aware of any South A mericau stations for this plant except those mentioned above ; it is also a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope, but not of Australia or New Zealand. 



2. Plantago barbata, Forst.; laxe caespitosa simplex v. ramosa, foliis erectis stellatim patentibus 

 recurvisve lineari-lanceolatis anguste lineari-elongatisve subacutis carnosis remote dentatis basi scariosis 

 barbatis glabratisve, pedunculis folio subsequantibus, spicis 1-3-floris, capsulae late obovatse medio circiun- 

 scissee parte inferiore calycem vix excedente. P. barbata, Forst. Comm. Goett. vol. ix. t. 4. P. pauciflora, 

 Lam. Must. Gen. n. 1684. P. pauciflora, 0, parva, Bameoud Monogr. Plantag. p. 17. P. polymorpha, Banks 

 et Sol. MSS. in Bibl. Banks, cum icone. 



Var. a, barbata ; foliis stellatim patentibus spathulato-lanceolatis dentatis basi barbatis. 



Var. ft elongata ; caule simpliciusculo, foliis erectis anguste et longissime lineari-spathulatis obtusis 

 remote sinuato-dentatis basi barbatis. 



Var. y, imberbis ; caule ramoso, foliis patulis lanceolatis obtusis remote dentatis basi sub-barbatis. 

 P. irnberbis, Hook, f I. MSS. in Part 1. p. 66. 



Hab. Var. a, Strait of Magalhaens, Commerson ; Tierra del Fuego, Banks and Solander, Forster. 

 Var. ft Port Gregory, Capt. King. Var. y, Port Famine, Capt. King. 



A highly variable plant ; always, however, in all the specimens which I have examined, retaining the characters 

 of a short capside dehiscing across the middle, the broad lower half of which is as long as, or very little longer 

 than the calyx, and of a different form from the narrow obconical elongated analogous organ of P. monanthos. 



