ON THE BOTANY OF THE BRITISH POLAR EXPEDITION. 303 



doubt that its true position is between E. geniculata and E. zey- 

 lanica, to the former of which it is most closely allied. It seems 

 constant, and can easily be distinguished by habit from both. 



59. Poa nemomlis, Linn., var. Versus cacumen montis Po- 

 hua-shan, Chin* bor., alt. 6-7000 ped., m. Junio 1875 coll. 

 Dr. 0. a Moellendorff. For the determination I am indebted 

 to the kindness of General Munro and Sir Joseph Hooker. The 

 panicle is linear, simple and much contracted, and this gives 

 it a look very unlike the usual form of the species in Europe. 

 General Munro says that it resembles Hakodadi specimens in the 

 elongated glumes and the 2-flowered spikelets. An addition to the 



Chinese flora. „ _, ,, ._. 



60. Cheihmthes argmiea, Kze. Secus fl. North River, prov. 



Cantonensis, m. Jan." 1879 coll. Dr. Gerlach. The first record of 

 this fern from Southern China. 



* * A few of the plants mentioned in the foregoing fasciculus 

 as new to China have been already recorded in M Maximowicz s 

 « Fragmenta ad nor* Asi* orientalis cognitionem govern, Mesas. 

 Baker and Spencer Moore's ■ Contributions to the Flora of Norton 

 China,' and perhaps elsewhere. With this exp lanation I le aye my 

 manuscript just as it was written, most of it having been drawn 

 up long ago, and a press of other avocations having alone pie- 

 vented its being arranged in order and sent to press earlier. 



ON THE BOTANY OF THE BRITISH POLAR 



EXPEDITION OF 1875-6. 

 By Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., Naturalist to H.M.S. 



' Discovery.' 



(Concluded from p 242.) 



So I , V OT y plentiful along the southern shore £ Hayes 

 ,nd. Common \ Diseovery Bay - W-'SLt 11. W F. 



Sound, 

 with 



and coll. Moss), 



E. polystachyum, L., var. i 



Dist. 1. Lat. 69° 15 7 . G 



mjustifoli 



Common at Disco. 



Orannnea . 



Alopecurus alpimis, L. r»Q°i9' to R3° 4'. 



Dist. 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 18. Lat. 68 4- . te M4 



Perhaps the most widely spread plant f^l***"™ • 

 and m nil probability grows in the ^^^^S^ 



yellow Popp P y ArcticWmow '^V*g*ffi& *£*•*£, 



^^ttFJSl ' Veiy h-iriant and handsome 



