FLORA OF TASMANIA. 



[Ore the Antarctic Plants 



it to the Antarctic regions; just as the endemic alpine Floras of Tasmania and Victoria are to an 

 appreciable degree composed of altered lowland species, or vice versa. Taking for example such an 

 eminently antarctic genus as Acana,-\ which is not known in the northern hemisphere, except in 

 America and the Sandwich Islands (but which is elsewhere in that hemisphere represented by 

 Poterium and Sanguisorba) , its distribution is very wide and disconnected, yet it is so universally 

 present in all high southern lands, both under the forms of temperate, alpine, and antarctic species, 

 that it is impossible to regard it under any other category than the vague one of antarctic. 



Premising that the so-called antarctic vegetation is that of the islands south of New Zealand, 

 West Chili south of Cape Tresmontes, Fuegia, the Falklands and other islands south of them, 

 Tristan d'Acunha, and Kerguelen's Land, I shall proceed to indicate which of the plants of these 

 countries are actually present, or are represented by allied genera or species in Australia. — E pre- 

 fixed distinguishes the European species. 



Australia and Tasmania. 



Caltha introloba, Muell. 



Tasmania aromatica, Br. 

 E Cardarnine hirsuta, L. 



Drosera Arcturi, Hook. 

 E Stellaria media, Sm. 

 E Sagina procumbeus, L. 



Colobanthus Billardieri, Fcnzl. 



Colobanthus subulatus, H.f. 

 E Geranium dissectum, L. 



Geranium potentilloides, L'He'rit. 



Pelargonium Acugnatieum, Pet. Th. 



Oxalis Magellanica, Forst. 

 E Potentilla anseriua, L. 

 E Geum urbanum, L. 



Acaaua Sanguisorba, Vahl. 

 E Epilobium tetragonum, L. 



Myriophyllum elatinoides, Gaud. 



Gunnera cordifolia, H.f. 

 E Callitriche verna, L. 

 E Moutia fontana, L. 



Crantzia liueata, Nutt. 



Apium australe, Pet. Tli. 



Oreomyrrhis Coleusoi, H.f. 



Coprosma putnila, H.f. 



Nertera depressa, B. S[ S. 



Trineuron scapigerum, Muell. 



Scleroleima forsteroides, H.f. 



Islands south of New Zealand. 



C. Novae-Zelandias, H.f. 



D. *axillaris, Forst. 



C. hirsuta, L. 



D. Arcturi, Hook. 

 S. media, Sm. 



C. Billardieri, Fenzl. 

 C. subulatus, H.f. 



G. potentilloides, LHerit. 



P. *Acugnaticum, Pet. Th. 



O. Magellanica, Forst. 



P. anseriua, L. 



G. *urbanum, L. 



A. Sanguisorba, Vahl. 



E. *tetragouum, L. 

 M. *elatinoides, Gaud. 

 G. *mouoica, Bl. 



C. verna, L. 

 M. fontana, L. 

 C. *lineata, Nutt. 

 A. *australe, Pet. Th. 

 O. *Colensoi, H.f. 

 C. pumila, H.f. 

 N. depressa, B. Sf S. 

 T. spathulatum, H.f. 



Fuegia, etc., Tristan d'Aeunha, 



andEerguelen's Land. 

 C. sagittata, Cav. 

 Drimys "Winteri, Forst. 



C. hirsuta, L. 



D. uniflora, Willd. 

 S. media, Sm. 



S. procumbens, L. 



C. crassifolius, H.f 



C. subulatus, H.f. 



G. dissectum, L. 



G. Patagouicum, ///. 



P. *Acugnaticum, Pet. Tli. 



0. Magellanica, Forst. 



P. anseriua, L. 



G. urbauum, L. 



A. laevigata, Ait. 



E. tetragonum, L. 

 M. elatinoides, Gaud. 

 G. Magellanica, Lam. 

 C. verna, L. 



M. fontana, L. 

 ^C. lineata, Nutt. 

 A. australe, Pet. Th. 

 O. andicola, Endl. 



K\ depressa, B. fy S. 



Abrotanella emarginata, Cass. 



t One species (J. pinnatifda, E. & P.), is found both in Chili and in California, but not in any intermediate 

 latitude. California, Mexico, and the Sandwich Islands are almost the only habitats of the genus in the northern 

 hemisphere. 



* An asterisk indicates those species which, being common to Tasmania and Fuegia, etc., are found on the 

 mountains of New Zealand, though not in the islands south of it. 



