38 BOTANICAL RESULTS OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



ROMEX FRUTESCENS, Thou. Esq. Fl. Trist., p. 38 ; D.C. Prodr., xiv. p. 72 ; Ilemsl. 

 Chall. Bot., i. n. p. 154, t. 30. 



Very common at the mouth of the glen down to high-water mark. 



Distribution. Tristan da Cunha and Inaccessible Islands. 



EMPETRUM NIGRUM, Linn. Sp. PL, 1022; var. RUBRUM, Hemsl. Chall. Bot., \. n. 

 p. 154. E. rubrum. Vahl, in Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 713 ; Hook.f. FL Antarct., ii. p. 345. 

 E. medium, Carmich. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xii. (1818), p. 508. 



Plentiful in dryer places. 



Distribution. Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands, and in the 

 Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego. 



PLANTAGO MAJOR, Linn. Sp. PL, 112. 



Common and doubtless introduced. 



Distribution. Generally throughout the northern hemisphere, and introduced 

 widely elsewhere. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 1 



SCIRPUS THOUARSIANUS, Schult. Mant., ii. (1824), pp. 84 et 538 ; Hemsl. Chall. Bot., 

 i. ii. pp. 156-158, tt. 33 et 34. S. prolifer, Thou. Esq. Fl. Trist., p. 36, t. 7. S. squar- 

 rosa, Spreng. Syst. Veg., iv. (1827), p. 28 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. (1869-70), p. 507. 

 S. Thouarsianus, Schult., var. bicolor, Hemsl. Chall. Bot., i. ii. p. 156, t. 34 (8-16). 

 S. prolifero-ramosus, Boeck. in Flora, Iviii. (1875), p. 261. S. virens, Boeck. in Flora, 

 Iviii. (1 875), p. 260 ; Hemsl. Chall. Bot., i. n. p. 158, t. 33 (7-12). S. pallescens, Boeck. 

 ex Hemsl. Chall. Bot., i. ii. p. 158. S. Thouarsianus, Schult., var. pallescens, Hemsl. 

 Chall. Bot., i. ii. p. 158, t. 33 (1-6). 



Isolepis prolifera, Carmich. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xii. (1818), p. 503. I. squar- 

 rosa, Carmich., loc. cit., xii. (1818), p. 503. I. bicolor, Carmich., loc. cit., xii. (1818), 

 p. 503; Kunth, Enum., ii. p. 216. I. acugnana, Schult. Mant., ii. (1824), p. 532; 

 Kunth, Enum., ii. p. 216. 1. Thouarsii, A. Dietr. Syn. PL, ii. p. 109 ; Kunth, Enum., 

 ii. p. 216. 



Very common. 



Distribution. Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands. 



SCIRPUS SULCATUS, Thou. Esq. Fl. Trist., p. 36, t. 7; Hemsl. Chall. Bot., i. n. 

 p. 155 (var. Moseleyanus excl.), t. 31. S. Thouarsii, Spreng. Syst. Veg., iv. (1827), 

 p. 27. S. conspersus, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. (1869-70), p. 505, pro parte. 



Isolepis sulcata, Carmich. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xii. (1818), p. 503; Kunth, 

 Enum., ii. p. 216. I. Carmichaeli, Dietr. Syn. PL, ii. p. 107. 



Not uncommon. 



Distribution. Tristan da Cunha group only, unless the New Zealand plant Scirpus 

 sulcatus var. ? ft. tristigmatosa, C. B. Clarke, MSS., can be regarded as truly belonging 

 to this species. 



1 For the determination of the species of Scirput I am indebted to the late Mr C. B. Clarke. 



