Bucnanan.— Campbell Island and its Flora, 399 
Hook. f., with its beautiful purple-tinted flowers, and Pleurophyllum 
speciosum, Hook. f., with its brilliant racemes of purple flowers, may be 
considered the gems of the southern flora. The numerous tall spikes of 
Pleurophylum criniferum, Hook. f, and P. hookeri, n. sp., mihi, give a 
peculiar character to both the Campbell and Auckland Islands' flora. No 
doubt much of this floral luxuriance is due to the richness of the moist 
vegetable soil and to the fog-shaded atmosphere, the climate during summer 
being not unlike a moist forcing house; hence it is doubtful if in the absence 
of these moist conditions much success will attend the cultivation in New 
Zealand of plants removed there. The large showy plants of Campbell 
Island are probably confined within an altitudinal range of 500 feet above 
sea level, but the shrubby or small trees such as species of Coprosma, 
Dracophyllum, Veronica, and Myrsine range from sea-level where they are 
most abundant to the highest altitudes (1,500 feet), although they are all 
sparsely distributed everywhere. A very prominent and showy plant 
Chrysobactron rossi, Hook. f., with its bright yellow racemes of flowers may 
be seen everywhere ; the raceme in this plant is often found globe 
shaped. 
The smaller grasses are rare, but rad large and noble grasses are 
abundant, the most conspicuous being Poa foliosa, Hook. f., Danthonia antare- 
tica, Hook. f., Hierochloe brunonis, Hook. f., and Hierochloe redolens, Br., but the 
chief feature of the flora is the abundance of Cyperaceous plants and species 
of Juneaces, most prominent being Rostkovia gracilis; this plant also charac- 
terises the subalpine flora of New Zealand up to 6,000 feet, 
An alpine flora may also be recognized in Campbell Island, as a few 
plants are only found at the highest altitude, such as Gentiana concinna, 
Hook. f., and that curious little inconspicuous plant Trineuron spathulatum, 
Hook. f., collected in fine flower at an altitude of 1,500 feet. 
The only plants collected on this occasion not previously known on 
Campbell Island were Pleurophyllum hookeri, n. s., mihi, Cotula australis, 
Hook. f., Nertera depressa, Banks and Sol., Chenopodiwn sp., and Lageno- 
phora sp. 
It would be an error to assume that the botany of Campbell Island has 
been exhausted because a few collectors have visited the Island and spent 
some days there; but when it is considered how often the weather is 
unfavourable, and how short a period is devoted to collecting, it is remark- 
able that so much has been done. 
On the present occasion, one day and two half days only were available 
for collecting, and, out of this, one entire day was devoted to digging up living 
plants, a very excellent collection of the latter being made, but through 
some inadvertence they went astray during the return voyage. A large 
