360 FLOEA ANTAECTICxV. \Fuegia, the 



2. TRIGLOCHIN, Linn. 



1. Triglochin Monte-Yidense, Spreng., Syst. Yeg. vol. ii. p. 145. Roem. etSch. Syst. vol. vii. p. 1586. 

 Kunth, En. Plant, vol. iii. p. 144. T. capense, Thiuib. Prudr. p. 67. T. niaritimum, Brege, in Kerb. Hook. 

 T. striatum, Cham, et Schlecht . fid . Kunth, I. c. 



Hab. Cape Tres Montes, C. Darwin, Esq. 



Variat magnitudine, scapoque foliis nunc longiore nunc niultoties breviore. 



Probably a very widely diffused, and certainly in size a variable plant, common to both coasts of extra-tropical 

 South America, and to the Cape of Good Hope. To this may also belong the T. Chilen&e, of Meyer, of which a 

 wholly insufficient character is given in a foot-note to that traveller's journey (Reise un die Erde. vol. i. p. 354). 

 Its nearest ally is the T. decipiens, Br., of Australia, of which T.filifolium., Sieb. (inaccurately described as wanting 

 the abortive carpels), is a synonym ; indeed, the Australian differs from the South American plant only in the larger 

 fruit, so far as my only specimen enables me to judge. 



LVI. RESTIACE^, Br. 



1. GAIMAKDIA, Gaud. 



1. Gaimardia australis, Gaud., in Ann. 8c. Nat. vol. v. p. 100, et in Freyc. Yoy. Bot. p. 419. t. 3. 

 Kunth, En. Plant, vol. iii. p. 491. 



Hab. Fuegia; Hermite Island, Gape Horn, /. B. H.; "Falkland Islands, very abundant, Gaudichaud, 

 B'Urville.J.B.H. 



A particularly abundant plant on the lulls of the Falkland Islands, forming, in boggy places, hard, extensive 

 green patches, often several yards across, and contributing materially to the formation of peat-bog. It has repre- 

 sentatives on Lord Auckland's Group and probably likewise in Tasmauia. 



LVII. CYPERACEtE, DC. 

 1. OREOBOLUS, Br. 



1. Oreobolus obtusangulus, Gaud., in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 99. t. 2. f. 1, et in Freyc. Yoy. Bot. 

 p. 417. Kunth, En. Plant, vol. ii. p. 367. 



Hab. Fuegia; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, /. B. H.; Falkland Islands, abundant, Gaudichaud, 

 B' Un-ille, J. B. H. 



It is difficult to suppose that a plant, so abundant in the Falkland Islands, should be rare on the mountains of 

 the adjacent continent, where, however, it has only been gathered near Cape Horn, unless a species collected by 

 M. Goudot full 4,000 miles further north, on the peak of Tolima in Colombia, should prove to be the same plant, 

 as, judging from a barren specimen, it very likely may. 



2. ELEOCHAEIS, Br. 



I. Eleocharis jjalustrit, Br., Prod V. p. 244. Engl. Bot. t. 181. Scirpus melanostacbys, B'Urv. 

 in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 603. Fimbristylis melanostacbys, Brong. in Buperrey, Yoy. Bot. p. 181. 



Hab. Falkland Islands, B'Urville, J. B. II. 



