18 CARL SKOTTSBERG, A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



C. inagcllanica Lam. (C. irrigua Sm.) 



E. F., Port Stanley (Birger!). — N. Europé, Asia and America, S. America 

 from Chile to Fuegia, Patagonia. 



C. microj^lochiu Wahlenb, subsp. oligantha (Boott) Kuek. 



E. F., rare in the heath opposite Port Stanley (Skottsberg 1902, Birger!) — 

 W. Patagonia, Fuegia. The type in N. Europé, Asia and America. 



68. r. trifirtji Gav. (C. aristata d'Urv.) 



Described as abundant by Hooker, but I believe it has sliared the fäte of 

 Poa jlabellata, in company with whicli it grows, for in late years it has only been 

 found in two places: E. F., Kidney Island (Birger!), W. F., Westpoint Island! On 

 botli localities the tussock-grass has been spared. — S. Chile, Cape Tres Montes — 

 Fuegia. New Zealand and Islands S. of it. Note the long discussion on the distri- 

 bution of this species in S. America in Fl. ant., which is rendered superfluous by 

 my discovery of Carex trifida with Poa jlabellata near Cape Horn. 



98. C. vallis pulehra' Phil. 



Very rare, only found near Port William, E. F. : on drift-sand (Birger), top 

 of Mount Low! — Andes of Chile (Prov. Santiago and Colchagua) and Argentina 

 (Prov. Mendoza). Its occurrence in the Falklands is rather extraordinary. 



[C. bonariensis Desf. is quoted by Gaudichaud; Kukenthal in Engler's 

 Pflanzenreich regards it as dubious and I prefer to exclude it. C. atropida Steud. 

 is added by Crié, who revised the French collections in 1878. Kukenthal has not 

 seen any specimens from the Falklands and I prefer to dröp it, as there may be 

 some mistake as to the locality. This is probably also the case with C. macrosolen 

 Steud. (also in Crié's notes); Ktjkenthal not even mentions the Falklands with»?». 



Centrolepidaceae. 

 Gainiardia Gaud. 



108. (i. australis GaUD. 



The scape ends in a single flower, surrounded by two bracts as described by 

 Gaudichaud, 6, p. 100. The stamens are long exserted with white filaments, pink 

 in the upper part and cream-coloured, peltate anthers. The stigmse are not well 

 described, for Gaudichaud says that the are subulate; this is true of dried specimens; 

 the living ones form two long exserted, påle lilac brushes with long, narrow pa- 

 pillse. As Gaudichaud's figures in Freyc. Bot. are somewhat far removed from 

 reality, I publish a new one on pl. I (fig. 3). 



The flowers are homogamous or slightly proterandrous. The stigmse are exposed 

 just on the surface of the cushions, and above them rise the anthers, whicli are 

 versatile as in the grasses. Gaimardia is pronouncedly anemogamous. — 



Common in peat-bogs of both islands! — W. Patagonia, Fuegia. 



