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Hooker, J. D. Flora Antarctica, part I. London, 1844.  4to. 
pp. 208, tt. 110. 
Kirk, T. Notes on Plants from Campbell Island: Transactions of 
the New Zealand Talon: xiv. (1881), pp. 387—389. 
Buchanan, J. Campbell Island and its Flora: Transactions of the 
New en Tástitate, xvi. (1883), pp. 398—400. 
icuous among the plants giving coleur to the vegetable carpet 
are brilliant purple flowered species of Celmisia and Pleurophyllum, 
which Buchanan observes may be regarded as the gems of the southern 
Flora. rysobactron Rossii, a liliaceous plant with bright yellow 
. flowers, is aes very ees 
CQ SLAND.— This is the most eee of the islands iv 
the New Z iind region, ors stout 600 m iles to the south-west of the 
mainland, in 54° 30’ S. lat. and 159? E. long. he surface is hilly, 
though the greatest elevation i is probably not more than 600 to 700 feet, 
and the vegetation is very sparse, consisting entirely of herbaceous 
plants. 
Scott, J. H. Macquarie Island: Transactions of the New Zealand 
Institute, xv. (1882), pp. 484—493. 
Hemsley, W. B. Botany of the “Challenger” Expedition, Introduc- 
tion, 1885, Pp: 62-65. The substance of the n oregoing, with fuller 
particulars of the general distribution of the plan 
ix ads ind 18 flowering plants and ferns are "bun to inhabit this 
island, whereof 12 aiso occur in New Zealand, while of the remaining 
Six, three inhabit the Auckland and Campbell De and the others 
extend westward to the Crozets, Kerguelen, and Fue, 
New Gutwea.—Excepting Australia, this i is the d island in the 
world, extending from 130? 50' to 150? 35' E. long., and from near the 
equator to 10° 40’ S. lat., the estimated area being 325,000 square miles. 
Its greatest length is 1,490 miles, and its greatest breadth 430 miles. Very 
little is known of the interior, but there are very lofty mountains, rising 
in some parts to a height of 17,000 or 18,000 feet. "The south-eastern 
testo from the 141st parallel of longitude eastward, an area of 88,000 
miles, is British. Judging from the samples of the vegetation 
that pin come under the observation of botanists, and from the goi 
tions of travellers, the flora is an exceedingly rich one, aboundin 
iar types, more Asiatic than Australian in ot gy though ‘erode is 
a considerable ‘intermingling of the Australian elem 
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Mueller scriptive Notes on Pa apuan Plats: Melbourne, 
1875 1883. Small dne Eight pans vol. i, pp. 117 ; vol. ii., pp. 52. 
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alle Piante dell Arcipelago S Tndo- Malese e Papuano. Genoa, 1877— 
-1887. 4to. 3 vols., iilus 
e Louisinde Are Mode and the Trobirand, Woodlark, and 
D'Entrecastreaux groups of islands, to the east of New Gi uinea, have 
been declared under British protection. Next to nothing is known of 
the vegetable productions of these islands. 
Nonrork Istanp.—About seven miles long and four broad, with a 
maximum elevation of 1,200 feet ; situated in about 29° S. Jat. and 168* 
. lip Island, "which is very much smaller in denis is on = 
same and about’ five ‘miles south. There i e peak e 
eae’ of 900 feet high. 
