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Its history in tlie Falklands is interesting enough, and tlie highly valuable 

 notes that accompanied Mr. Felton's specimens, afford full evidence that it is a true 

 native of the islands. Witli his permission they are qiioted here in extenso : »This 

 plant at one time was common on the N.W. end of tlie West Falklands. Its fa- 

 vourite spöt was at the bottom of the stoneruns, where the subsoil is poroiis and 

 the ground dry and warm. It would also be met on the sunny side of the dry ridges. 

 If the summer was warm and dry they would bloom freely, if cold and wet they 

 would not open. I do not remember liow many different shades of flowers there 

 were, but several varying from white to magenta. The sheep destroyed them, 

 as they were easy of access, and at the present time they are very rare. I am posi- 

 tive they are natives. » Mr. Felton also mentions, that he met Mrs. Eleanor Val- 

 LENTIN at Roy Cove, and she informed him that she had been searching in vain for 

 the same plant, which she remembered as common there when she was a child. 



It seems as if the Falklands were not the proper native country for a plant 

 that only expands its flowers in warm and dry summers. But, as we shall see, it 

 possesses the faculty of postponing the germination of the seed till a favourable occa- 

 sion. Mr. Felton writes: »Some 12 or 15 years ago I brought home and planted in 

 front of the house, two of the roots, one nearly white and one magenta. The ground 

 got covered afterwards with clay, removed for the foundation of a building — last 

 winter I had a lot of the clay and soil removed, and to my surprise, a number of 

 the plants reappeared, the seeds must have been preserved all that time. I see there 

 are number of the seeds up now. » (Letter to the author, written on May 17, 1910.) 



W. F., Westpoint Island (Felton!). — Endemic. 



Caryophyllacese. 

 Stellaria L. 



104. S. (lel)ilis d'Urv. 



Sepals brownish-green, petals shorter than the sepals, white, filaments and 

 stigmse greenish white, anthers brownish crimson. At the base of the filaments a 

 honey-producing disc. 



Apparently rare. É. F., d'Urville, Hooker; Sparrow Cove, by the margin 

 of a rivulet! Arrow Harbour, among grasses and Carices in moist places ! Has not 

 been reported from W. F. — Patagonia, Fuegia, Staten I. 



Cerastium L. 



779. C. arvense L. (C. lineare L.? ex Gaudichaud.) 



Common in both islands, especially among grasses. — N. temperate zone, S. 

 America from Chile and S. Brazil to Fuegia, Staten I, 



(1 regard Sagina procumbens L. as originally introduced.) 



