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less flower-lieads. It is related to S. candicans, DC, of the 

 Falkland Islands, but the leaves are sessile and much divided ; 

 it appears likely to be of easy cultivation. A curious and 

 pretty gentian, also new to science, was plentiful ; it formed 

 rather close masses of erect stems, procumbent at their base, 

 and sometimes over 1ft. in diameter. The stems and. leaves 

 were either of a pale-yellow colour or reddish-purple, with 

 solitary axillary flowers, those on the plants with yellow 

 stems being white, and those on the others purple, vertically 

 streaked with red, the result in each case being that the 

 flowers, notwithstanding their abundance, are not observed 

 until the plant is somewhat closely examined. It is allied to 

 G. concinna, of the Auckland Islands. Colohantlms viuscoidcs 

 was ol)served on the cliffs, and in this locality exhibits a con- 

 siderable extension of its range eastward. A remarkable form 

 of Stellaria dccipiens, with the leaves much smaller and the 

 capsules much larger than those of the typical form on the 

 Auckland Islands, was found growing over deserted nests of 

 the albatros. Ligusticiuu antipodiim was abundant, although 

 everywhere past flowering. PlcurophyUum criniferum was 

 found in many places, and was fully as luxuriant as on the 

 Auckland and Campbell Islands. The three last-named plants 

 exhibit in this locality a considerable extension of their 

 northern and eastern range. A dwarf-nettle, TJrticaaustralis, 

 with large leaves of considerable stinging-power, was plen- 

 tiful, chiefly on the eastern side of the island. It is stated, on 

 the authority of Bid will, to occur in the southern extremity of 

 tlie North Island, but has not been collected of late years in 

 any part of the North or South Islands, and appears to be 

 confiued to small islands in Foveaux Strait, the Chatham 

 Islands, Antipodes Island, the Auckland and Campbell 

 Islands. Another plant of considerable interest is Deschamp)sia 

 hookcri, originally described from Campbell Island under the 

 name of Catahrosa antarctica, Hook. f. The typical form of 

 Carex 'paniculata occurs in immense tussocks on the north 

 side of the island, and could not be distinguished from the 

 ordinary British form. The ordinary New Zealand form, 

 better known as C. appressa, E. Br., was plentiful. The prin- 

 cipal grasses were Foa follosa, Festuca scoparia, unci Afjrostis 

 antarctica. X slender form of Poa anceps with elongated 

 panicles was observed in several places, and in this locality 

 attahis its extreme southern limit. Cotula plumosa occurs 

 sparingly on the cliffs, and Jtuicns schcuzerioidcs was abundant 

 in a Spluignnni swamp, marking the source of springs on the 

 sloj)e of Mount Galloway. 



About a dozen species of ferns andlycopods were collected,, 

 but, W'ith the exception of Ilypolcpis millefoUmn and Lomaria 

 dura, all are of wide distribution in the colony. 



