332 Transactions. — Botany. 



104. Wilkes, C. : " Narrative of tlie United States Exploring 



Expedition during the Years 1838-39-40-41-42." 

 Philadelphia, 1845. Account of Auckland Island, 

 pp. 351-53; and Macquarie Island, p. 354. 



105. Woodward, H. : "The Distribution of Life in Antarctic 



Lands," Presidential address to the Norfolk and 

 Norwich Naturalists' Society. Geolog. Mag., vol. x., 

 No. IX. ; 1903. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES XI.-XXIV. 

 [All the photographs were taken by the author.] 



Plate XI. 



1. Juvenile leaf of Panax simplex, from plant collected at Norman's Inlet, 



Auckland Island. 

 •3. Five-foliate leaf of Panax simplex, from juvenile plant collected at 



Norman's Inlet, Auckland Island. 



4. Ternate leaf of Panax sinq^lex, from same shoot as No. 3. 



5. Simple leaf from same shoot as 6— Stewart Island juvenile plant of 



P. sunplex, collected at Port Pegasus. 



6. Cut-leaved juvenile form of P. simplex, larger but similar to 1, Port 



Pegasus, Stewart Island. 



[The above figures merely show the outlines of the leaves.] 



Plate XI L 

 Sand-dunes and sandy shore of Enderby Island. The dark patches on the 

 dunes show the close vegetation. Portion of rata forest in left-hand 

 top corner. 



Plate XIII. 

 Interior of rata forest, Auckland Island. The fern is Aspidium vestitum. 



Plate XIV. 

 Olearia lyallii forest above cliffs of Ewing Island. 



Plate XV. 



Olearia lyallii forest coming to near high-water mark, Ewing Island. 

 D' Urvilhea utilis washed up on to the shore. Grass-tussock in left- 

 hand bottom corner. 



Plate XVI. 



Exterior of low rata forest — almost scrub — on Enderby Island. Suttonia 

 divaricata in right-hand bottom corner. 



Plate XVII. 



General view of forest as in Plate XVI., in front of which is grass-tussock 



Im. or more tall. North end of Auckland Island in background. 



Plate XVIII. 

 ArisloteUa fruticosa, a New Zealand xerophytic shrub, growing at out- 

 skirts of a beech forest, Canterbury, South Island. 



Plate XIX. 



Cliffs of Antipodes Island near the boat-landing. Maritime tussock slope 

 on left. 



