340 FLORA ANTAECTICA. [Fuegia, the 



D'Urv. The nearest allies of tlris plant are its Australian and New Zealand representative, the P. carnosa, Br. 

 (vid. Flor. Antarct. Pt. 1. p. 65), and the P. Andicola, Gill. MSS.; the former of these differs in its shorter capsule, 

 differently shaped seeds, crowded, more fleshy foliage ; the latter in its curious root and broader leaves, which are, 

 however, very unimportant characters. 



The Port Gregory specimens, of which I have made variety /3, are perhaps drawn up, for the leaves are six 

 inches long, which is at least four times the length of those of the ordinary state of the species. 



3. Plantago monanthos, D'Urv.; caulibus ramosis dense eaespitosis, foliis perpluriuiis basi arete vagi- 

 nautibus erectis subsquarrosis stellatim patentibusve anguste lineari-elongatis obtusis obscure dentatis 

 marginibus cartilagiiieis pedunculis multoties longioribus basi glaberrirnis, spiculis 1-4-floris, capsula 

 anguste clavata infra medium circumscissa parte inferiore calyce bis terve longiore. P. monanthos, D' Urv. 

 in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 606. Gaud.in Freyc. Voy. Bof. p. 133. Bameoud, Monogr. Plantag. 

 p. 17. exclud. syn. P. caniosae, Br. (Tab. CXXI.) 



Var. a, foliis erectis subsquarrosisve lineari-elongatis flaccidis. 



Var. p, abbreviate/, ; caulibus eaespitosis, foliis brevioribus substellatini patenti-recurvis. 



Var. y, muscoides ; caulibus densissime eaespitosis, foliis brevibus arete imbricatis marginibus cartila- 

 giiieis albis. 



Hab. Var. a, Falkland Islands, B' Urvitte, J.B. II ; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, in moist places, /. B. H. 

 Var. /3, Hermite Island, amongst rocks ; var. y, the same locality, in clefts of exposed rocks, /. B. H. 



A very different plant from the P. carnosa, Br., under which M. Bameoud has included it, especially in the 

 habit, stems, foliage, comparative length of the peduncle, shape of the capsule and form of the seeds. 



Plate CXXI. Fig. 1, flower and bracteae; fig. 2, germen; fig. 3, ripe fruit ; fig. 4, transverse section of ditto ; 

 fig. 5, upper half of ditto, with dissepiment and seeds ; fig. 6 and 7, dissepiment and seeds ; fig. 8 and 9, front and 

 back view of seeds ; fig. 10, longitudinal section of seed : — all magnified. 



Plantago Idrtella, H. B. K v Nov. Gen. et Sj). vol. x. p. 187. 1. 127. Bameoud, Monogr. Plantag. p. 18. 



Hab. South Cliili ; Cape Tres Montes, C. Banvin, Esq. 



Not at all an uncommon Chilian and Buenos Ayrean plant, exceedingly variable in the breadth and pubes- 

 cence of the leaves, and also in the size of the flowers, which in these specimens are larger than in the figure 

 quoted. It is also a Brazilian species, and occurs on the mountains of Peru and Columbia, and is very nearly allied 

 to the PI. Virginica, L. The character of the segments of the corolla being patent or conniving is scarcely tenable 

 in this plant and its allies. 



XLI. POLYGONE^E, Jim. 



1. POLYGONUM, L. 



1. Polygonum maritimum, Linn. Sj). PL p. 519. Engl. Bot. Swppl. t. 2804. Meisner, Monogr. 

 Polyg. p. 89. 



Hab. South Chili ; Cape Tres Montes, C. Barwin, Esq.; Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Famine, Capt.King. 



There appears no difference between these specimens and those of British growth. In the southern hemisphere 

 the species occurs only at the Cape of Good Hope and in South Chili. 



