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admiral himself. In all 269 species were collected, of which 

 twenty-one were spermaphytes or pteridophytes. These were 

 published in 1852 as a part of the great work " Voyage 

 au Pole Sud," a splendid folio volume (44), containing figures 

 of the different species and names given by Hombron and 

 Jacquinot, but without descriptions. The text was published 

 separately, Tom. I., in 1845, containing descriptions of the 

 MuscinccB and Thallophyta by M. C. Montagne (78), and 

 Tom. II., in 1852, containing descriptions of the vascular plants 

 by M. J. Decaisne (26). This latter author changed some of 

 Hombron and Jacquinot's names, as they were not in accord- 

 ance with the rules for botanical nomenclature. Between the 

 publication of the " Flora Antarctica " and the " Handbook of 

 the New Zealand Flora " a few additions to the flora of the 

 Auckland Group were made by General Bolton, and such 

 appear in the Handbook. 



In November, 1880, Dr. J. H. Scott paid a visit to 

 Macquarie Island, the flora of which was known only from a 

 small collection of plants, seven in number, sent many years 

 previously to Sir W. Hooker by Mr. Fraser, of Sydney. Scott 

 published his results in a very valuable paper (93) which 

 appeared in the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute" 

 for 1883, from which a good idea of the physiognomy of the 

 vegetation may be obtained. His collection numbered 16 

 spermaphytes, 3 pteridophytes, 8 musci, 7 lichens, and 6 

 fungi — 40 species in all. " I was there in November," he 

 writes (93, p. 487), " and in these latitudes spring is but little 

 advanced in that month. I therefore found comparatively 

 few plants in flower. This, of course, has added much to the 

 difiiculty of identifying my specimens, and, combined with the 

 tliick weather, has helped to make my collection smaller than 

 it might have been under more favourable circumstances." 



In December, 1883, Mr. J. Buchanan visited Campbell 

 Island in order to procure a collection of living plants for the 

 various botanical gardens of New Zealand and an herbarium 

 collection for the Colonial Museum, Wellington. He pub- 

 lished his results in a short paper, two pages only, in the 

 "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," 1884 (9), pub- 

 lishing a new species of Pleurophyl'Mvi (P. hookeri) in the 

 same volume (10). The former of these papers also contains 

 some interesting drawings of the coast of Campbell Island. 



In the summer of 1890 Mr. T. Kirk visited the whole of 

 the Southern Islands, excepting Macquarie Island, and was in 

 consequence able to publish an account of the botany of the 

 Snares and Antipodes Islands for the first time — a much- 

 needed and most valuable work. He also dealt with the botany 

 of the Auckland Group and Campbell Island, and summed up 

 what was known regarding the flora of Macquarie Island. 



