358 FLORA ANTARCTICA. [Fuegia, the 



Suppl. p. 209. Font. Comm. Goett. vol. ix. p. 27. t. 3. Gaud, in Ann. Sc, Nat. vol. v. p. 100, et in Freyc. 

 Voy. Bot. p. 132. B'Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 603. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens and throughout Fuegia, Commerson, Banks and Solander, fyc. Falkland 

 Islands, very abundant, Gaud.icMud, and, all succeeding voyagers. 



The miserable natives of Fuegia weave the steins of this rush into baskets, and in doing so seem to exhaust 

 their cunning, for such baskets appeared to us to be the only article they possessed, exhibiting any attempt at 

 such handy-craft as demands the slightest ingenuity, except, perhaps, the moveable heads of their sealing spears. 



2. Eostkovia Magellanica, Hook. fil. I. c. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens, Commerson ; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, /. B. II. ; Falkland Islands, 

 very abundant, Gaudichaud, Sfc. 



I am not aware of this species having been gathered in Fuegia since Commerson's time, except by myself; and 

 though abundant in Hermite Island, it is probably scarce and alpine to the north of that locality, as it is also in 

 Campbell's Island. 



2. JUNCUS, L. 



1. Juncus scheuckzerioides, Gaud.; Ft. Antarct. p. 79. 



Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Famine, Cajjt. King ; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, /. B. H; Falk- 

 land Islands, very abundant, Gaudichaud, Sj-c; Kerguelen's Land, J.B.H. 



Decidedly the most Antarctic Juncus, and exceedingly abundant at Cape Horn, the Falkland Islands, and 

 Kerguelen's Land, where no other species of the genus exists. It is also a native of Campbell's Island and 

 Lord Auckland's group. 



2. Juncus planifotius, Brown, Prodr. p. 259. E. Meyer, Junci, n. 36, et in Linnaa, vol. iii. p. 370. 

 La Harpe, in Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, vol. ii. p. 55. Kunth, En. Plant, vol. iii. p. 344. 



Hab. Chonos Archipelago, C. Barwin, Esq. 



These, and other specimens gathered at Valdivia by Mr. Bridges, are the only extra-Australian individuals of 

 this species that I have seen. Meyer remarks (Herb. Hook.), that there is no specific difference between the 

 specimens of the New and Old World. 



3. Juncus graminifolius, E. Meyer, in Ret. HanJc. vol. ii. p. 144. Cephaloxys graminifolia, Nees et 

 Meyer, in Nov. Act. Acad. Cas. vol. xix. Suppl. p. 128. J. rivularis, Poeppig, fid. Meyer in Herb. Hook. 



Hab. Chonos Archipelago, C. Barwin, Esq. 



The present species, like the former, can scarcely be considered truly Antarctic, merely entering the northern 

 limits which I have assigned to the Fuegian Flora. It ranges on the coast from Valparaiso to the latitude of Chonos 

 Archipelago and is also found on the Cordillera of Peru. 



Meyer (Hook. Herb.) remarks that this hardly belongs to the genus Cephaloxys, on account of the structure of 

 its capsule. 



3. LUZULA, BC. 



1. Luzula Alqpecurm, Desv. Bot. Journ. vol. i. p. 159. E. Meyer, in Reliq. ILenk. vol. ii. p. 145. 

 Syn. Luzul. n. 5. La Harpe, in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. ii. p. 177. 



