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FLORA ANTARCTICA, 



OR 



BOTANY OF THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE 



OF H.M. DISCOVERY SHIPS EREBUS AND TERROR IN THE YEARS 1839—1843, 



UNDER THE COMMAND OP 



CAPT. SIR J. CLARK ROSS, Kt., R.N., P.R.S., &c. 



BY 



JOSEPH DALTON HOOKEE, M.D., E.N., E.L.S., 



Assistant Surgeon of the ' Erebus ' and Botanist to the Expedition. 



The Flora Antarctica is intended to give a complete history of 

 the Antarctic Regions, namely, such lands as are situated between the 

 parallels of 50° and 78° South, the utmost limit that has been attained 

 by Navigators. It will comprise an account of the Plants of Lord 

 AucklancFs and Campbell's Islands, of Kcrguclen's and the Falkland 

 Islands, of Tierra del Fuego, and of all the South Circumpolar Regions. 

 Amongst other novelties will be included accounts of the Cabbage of 

 Kerguelen's Island, a plant entirely new to science, though discovered 

 and beneficially used during Captain Cook's Voyage ; the Tussac and 

 other grasses of the Falklauds ; the Ecech-trees, evergreen and deci- 

 duous, of Cape Horn, and many productions of great botanical interest. 



In addition to the extensive collections made by the OHicers of the 

 Erebus and Terror, during three years spent in the high southern lati- 

 tudes, the still unpublished Herbaria formed by Sir Joseph Banks, 

 Forster, Solander, and iMenzies, all deposited in the British Museum, 

 are placed at the Author's disposal by tlic kindness of Mr. Brown, as 

 are also the phints of Captain Fitzroy's Voyage, by ]\Ii-. Darwin and 

 Professor Henslow. These materials, together Avith species from pri- 

 vate Herbaria, especially that of Sir William Jackson Hooker of the 



