8 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : BOTANY. 



H, cuneatum Kee seems to be a rather rare plant in this district, found 

 by Skottsberg in W. Patagonia at Puerto Olale by Golfo de Penas, cer- 

 tainly no other locality of this species being known from the district we 

 have in sight. Whether the specimens brought home from S. Fuegia by 

 J. D. Hooker, and stated by him to represent a variety of H. rarum R. 

 Br. belong, in fact, to that species may, at present, be an open question. 



H. CUNEATUS Kee is found also in S. Chili, Chiloe, and in Juan 

 Fernandez. 



It may also be mentioned that 



H. PELTATUM Poir. Desv. Macl., p. 130 (H. peltatwn Poir) (syn. H. 

 Wilsoni Hook.) is by C. Christiansen separated from H.falklandicum Bak. 

 He emphasizes, however, the close affinity between these species. (C. 

 Christ., Some Ferns, p. 25.) Skottsberg, on the other hand, in his paper 

 "A Botanical Survey of the Falkland Islands," p. 7, gives H. peltatiim 

 as a synonym of H. falklandicum. 



H. SKOTTSBERGII C. Christ, Some Ferns, p. 22. 



Syn. H. abruptum Hook. fil. var. bremfrons (Kze.) C. Christ. 



S. Fuegia, He Clarence and Lago Cami (Lago Fagnano) ; W. Pata- 

 gonia, Port Otway and Sholl-bay. 



H. tortuosum Hook, et Grev. Macl., p. 131 (H. tortuosum Banks et 

 Sol.). 



Also in the Falkland Is. 



TRICHOMANES L. 

 T. FLABELLATUM Bory. Macl., p. 128. (T. flabellatum.} 



Gaudichaud and D'Urville are the only botanists who have noticed the 

 presence of this species in the Falkland Islands In Flora Antarctica it 

 is recorded. Hooker, however, finds it strange that the French botanists 

 make no mention of Hymenophyllum Wilsoni Hook, although it is 

 common in those islands 



T. OESPITOSUM (Gaud.) Hook. Macl., p. 128. 



Should be deleted, being identical with Serpyllopsis ccespitosa (Gaud.) 

 C. Chr. 



There is, perhaps, some misapprehension regarding H. peltatum (H. 



