208 NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. 
Colobanthus, Caltha sect. Psychrophila, Drosera sect. Psychophila, 
Eucryphia, Gunnera, Prionotes, Tetrachondra, Pratia, Donatia, Abro- 
tanella. 
‘We must certainly remember that the present distribution is 
often a poor indicator that, for instance, a genus now well repre- 
sented in New Zealand, with few species in South America, may have 
been much more plentiful in the latter country in bygone times, or 
that an Antarctic type may have developed many species in one 
place and few in the other.” 
As so much interest is taken in the Fuegian element of the New 
Zealand flora, it seems well to mention all those species of both floras 
which are supposed to be identical. They are as follows: Agrostis 
magellanica, a small grass found in the Subantarctic and Fiord 
botanical divisions; Carex Darwinii var. urolepis, a sedge found in 
lowland swamps, Chatham Island, and, according to Petrie, in Anti- 
podes Island also; C. trifida, a tall sedge occurring on the east, south, 
and south-west coasts of the South Island, and in Stewart Island 
and the subantarctic islands; Uncinia macrolepis, a small hooked 
sedge occurring at rather distant intervals in the high mountains 
from the North-eastern Botanical District southwards throughout the 
South Island; Rostkovia magellanica, a rush-like tussock found in 
bogs near the summits of the hills of Campbell Island; Juncus 
planifolius, a small grass-like rush common in wet ground in all the 
botanical provinces except the Kermadec; Colobanthus quitensis, a 
tiny cushion or rosette plant found in distant stations on the sub- 
alpine fell-fields and rocks from Nelson to Otago; C. crassifolius 
(C. Billardiert of Cheeseman’s Manual), a common small grassy 
rosette-plant occurring from sea-level to the upper subalpine belt 
in all the botanical divisions except the North and South Auckland 
and the Kermadec Province; Myosurus aristatus, a minute annual 
recorded from only a few localities from Wellington to Central Otago, 
but probably with a much wider distribution; Ranunculus acaulis, 
a low creeping and rooting herb occurring on the seashore throughout 
all the botanical provinces except the Kermadec ; Cardamine glacialis, 
a rosette-plant found in Lord Auckland, Campbell, and Macquarie 
Islands, but as the endemic variety subcarnosa ; Crassula moschata, 
a small succulent mat-forming herb occurring near the sea on peaty 
ground, rocks, and gravel shores from the northern shores of Cook 
Strait to Macquarie Island and the Chathams; Acaena adscendens, 
