28 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
not so much with the constituents of the flora, as a eollective field 
view of the vegetation of the island. He notices its peculiar isolation, 
and with regard to the influences of Antarctic Drift, &c., suggests 
snow-clad mountain summits are also important ith with reference 
to its flora. Below the snow line are patches of green intermingled 
here and there with yellow spots. These latter are due te Mosses. 
The rocks at half-tide are covered with Durvillea utilis, above high 
tide Zillea moschata is found in abundance, and beyond the beach a 
swampy, peaty soil covers the rocks, where a thick growth of herbage 
grows, principally composed of Ac@na ascendens, Azorella Selago, and’ 
Festuca Cookii ; the former of these three being the_most pagans sp 
plant in the island, though the latter Grass is by no means sc 
Ranunculus biternatus, Callitriche antarctica, and Stellaria ee “ii 
_ Tet with at waterpools, chiefly near the sea. Pringlea antiscor- 
butica seems less profuse than at Kerguelen Island. Of Ferns, 
omaria alpina, Aspidium mohrioides, Polypodium australe, and 
Hymenophyllum tunbridgense are fairly represented, the form er being 
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two latter, the author omnes an ancient land-connection between 
hem. Mr. Moseley afterwards called the attention of the 
Society to a series of botanical specimens from definite localities or 
areas arranged together on cardboards. . Specimens of 
on sie floras of Marion Island, Juan Fernandez, Kerguelen Island, 
Tristan D’Acunha, and such-like insular groups were thus combined ; 
by this means a distinct comprehension of the vegetation of the 
districts is obtained at a glance. With reference to these one of the 
speakers: recall : t 
genera as now admitted being then for 
Afterwards, in 1827, he issued Rafal ay eoaeh ” 
wherein full descriptions of 30 30 genera genera andall the known aceon 
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