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Snares. 

 Colobanthus muscoides, Hook. f. 

 Lepidium oleraceuni, Banks and Sol. 

 Cardamine depressa, Hook.f. 

 Callitricbe verna, L. 

 Tillaea moschata, DC. 

 Ligusticum acutifolium, n.s. 

 Aralia lyallii, T. Kirk, var. robusta. 

 Olearia lyallii, Hook. f. 

 Senecio muelleri, T. Kirk. 

 Sonchiis asper, Hoffm. 

 Myosotis capitata, Hook, f., var. albida. 

 Veronica elliptica, Forst. 

 Juncus bufonius, L. 

 Scirpus antarcticus, L. 



„ cernua, Vahl. 

 Carex trifida, Can. 

 Hierocbloe redolens, B. and S. 

 Deyeuxia forsteri, Bcntli. 

 Poa foliosa, Hook. f. 

 Festuca scoparia, Hook. f. 



Lomaria dura, Moore. 

 Asplenium obtusatuni, Forst. 

 Aspidium aculeatum, Sivartz. 



Naturalised. 

 Dactylis glomerata, L. 

 Holcus lanatus, L. 

 Poa annua, L. 

 Loliuni perenne, L. 



THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS. 

 Port Eoss, at the northern extremity of the Auckland 

 Islands, is situated in lat. 50° 32' S., long. 166° 13' E. The 

 group was discovered by Cajptain Bristow in 1806, and was 

 visited by the French Antarctic Expedition under Admiral 

 d'Urville in 1839, and by the x\merican Exploring Expedition 

 under Commodore Wilkes during the same year. But few plants 

 were collected by the members of either. Some of those col- 

 lected by MM. Hombron and Jacquinot are beautifully repre- 

 sented in the " Voyage au Pole Sud," the publication of which 

 extended over several years. The botanists of the American 

 expedition also appear to have made but scanty collections. Her 

 Majesty's ships " Erebus " and " Terror " visited the islands in 

 November, 1840, when Dr. Hooker (now Sir Joseph Hooker), 

 assisted by Dr. Lyall, made comprehensive collections, the 

 results of which were described by the former in the first 



