BOT^ISTY. 



A— PH^NOGAMIA, FILICES, et LYCOPODIACE^. 



Revised by Pkof. A. Gray. 



I.— RANUNCULACE^. 



1. Eanunculus crassipes, Sooh. fil. — Very common in and by 

 fresli-water pools, and pretty well up on the hill-sides, among Accena, 

 and in crevices of wet rocks. Varies greatly in size and vigor of 

 growth in different localities. Begins to flower about December 15. 



2. Ranunculus trullifolius, Hook, fil — In small pools and 

 running streams of fresh water. Not uncommon, but not found in 

 flower. In two forms [the larger answering well to Dr. Hooker's 

 specimens from the Falkland Islands j the smaller, with some entire 

 leaves apparently much too near R. hydrophihis, Gaud. Neither of 

 the two were before recorded from Kerguelen Island. — A. G.J. 



3. Ranunculus ? — In low land, between two arms of the 



sea. Not in flower up to January 2. Found in company with B. 

 crassipes, which here grew much more luxuriantly than near the sta- 

 tion (among the hills). [A succulent species, with rounded and some- 

 what-caudate leaves, an inch or more in diameter, deeply and obtusely 

 3-7-lobed, on fleshy petioles a span or more long. It can hardly be a 

 form of the preceding. — A. G.] 



II.— CRUCIFERiE. 



1. PRiNGLEA antiscoebutica, R. Bwicn. — " Kerguelen cabbage" 

 grows abundantly near the sea-shore, and I have seen it as high as 

 2,000 feet (Mount Crozier), where all other Phienogams but axorella had 

 given place to Mosses and Lichens. Perennial, stout creeping rhizomes, 

 sometimes 5 or 6 feet long and as many inches in diameter, stated by 

 Dr. Hooker to be apetalous, on the authority of Mr. Anderson, who 

 visited Kerguelen with Captain Cook {'■^petala nulla!" Fl. Antarctica), 



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