FUEGIAN SPECIES. 209 
a semi-woody mat-forming plant confined to Macquarie Island ; 
Geranium sessiliflorum, a rosette-herb occurring in various lowland 
and especially mountain plant-associations from the Volcanic Plateau 
to Stewart Island (the “type” does not occur in New Zealand, 
but only the variety glabrum and other unnamed varieties) ; Myrio- 
phyllum elatinoides, a partly submerged water-plant occurring in low- 
land to lower-subalpine waters from the South Auckland Botanical 
District to Stewart Island; Hydrocotyle americana, a creeping and 
rooting tender herb of the lowland forest-floor from the North Auck- 
land Botanical District to Stewart Island; Azorella Selago, a huge 
cushion-plant restricted to Macquarie Island; Crantzia lineata, a 
small lowland and montane creeping and rooting rush-like plant 
found in all the botanical provinces except the Kermadec and Sub- 
antarctic ; Oreomyrrhis andicola, a slender tufted herb occurring in 
all the botanical provinces except the Kermadec and Subantarctic 
(the New Zealand and the Fuegian plants belong to different varie- 
ties); Gratiola peruviana, a creeping and rooting lowland swamp- 
herb occurring throughout the North Island, and in the South Island 
in the North-western Botanical District ; Veronica elliptica, a much- 
branched tall shrub occurring in several varieties on the coast from 
Taranaki and Titahi Bay (Wellington) southwards to Stewart Island 
(but absent on the greater part of the east coast of the South 
Island) and the Subantarctic Province; Nertera depressa, a creeping 
and rooting mat-forming herb found in the lowlands and moun- 
tains from the Ruahine-Cook Botanical District through the South 
Island to Stewart Island and the Lord Auckland Group; Cotula 
plumosa, a rather stout creeping and rooting herb occurring in the 
Subantarctic Botanical Province (this species does not occur in sub- 
antarctic South America, but in Kerguelen Land only, the flora of 
which is to a considerable extent Fuegian) ; Taraxacum magellanicum, 
a rosette-herb occurring in many parts of New Zealand, but its 
exact distribution is beclouded through its having been considered 
in all New Zealand floras as identical with the European dande- 
lion (7. officinale), although it is amply distinct; Selliera radicans, 
a creeping and rooting mat-forming herb common on the coast 
in various associations in all the botanical provinces except the 
Kermadec, Chatham, and Subantarctic. 
Besides the above species, the following must be noted, since they 
are almost identical with Fuegian species—so much so, in fact, that 
14— Plants. 
