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



Oenotheracese. 



Epilobiuin L. 



122. E. valdivieiise Phil. et Haussk. (E. tetragonum ! 

 fil. p. p., E. Hookerianum Haussk. in herb.) 



In his monograpli on Efilobhmi. Haussknecht mentions E. australe from the 

 Falklands, quoting a type specimen of Hooker in the Berlin Herbarium. I liave 

 also seen it; the sheet contains two pieces, one larger with flowers and one inno- 

 vation. Below the large specimen Haussknecht lias written E. Hookerianum, on 

 the other E. australe. It is possible, that the determination of the small piece is 

 correct, but we shall see immediately, that it hardly come from the Falklands. Con- 

 cerning the other, it is identical with the plant I have collected but has nothing to do 

 with E. australe; Haussknecht also knew, that it was another species, and seems to 

 have had the intention of describing it as E. Hookerianum, but this name is not 

 to be found in his monograph, nor is there any other species from the Falklands; 

 when putting »Falkland » as locality for E. australe, Haussknecht must have thought 

 of the small piece and forgotten the other, for his own description of E. australe 

 would not do for Hookerianum. With the aid of the monograph and specimens from 

 S. America, revised by Haussknecht, I brought it to E. valdiviense with whicli it 

 seems fuUy identical. But there was still the other, small, sterile piece of another 

 type, called E. australe. I think that, after a revision of the material at Kew, I 

 have got an explanation. There is, on one sheet of paper: 1) A specimen of E. 

 australe{1) from the Chonos Islands, 2) 4 pieces from Port Famine, Capt. King, on 

 which Haussknecht has written -^E. australe PoEPr, » 3) 3 samples from the Falk- 

 lands; they all belong to one species, and on one of them Haussknecht has written 

 »sp. n. (Hooker)»; these are identical with Hookeriamun ^ valdiviense. There are 

 thus, in the collections at Kew, no specimens of E. australe from the Falklands, and 

 I have been led to believe, that the small piece in the Berlin Herbarium came from 

 Port Famine. E. F., in streams, growing with mosses; rare and only seen in La- 

 fonia (the localities where Hooker's and Chartres' material came from, are un- 

 known): a rivulet halfway between Adventure Sound and Darwin! N. of Bodie 

 Creek, in a small stream running to Horqueta Stream ! — Chile, from Araucania to 

 the Straits. 



Halorrhagidaceae. 

 Myriophylliiin L. 



46. M. elatinoides Gaud. (incl. M. ternatum Gaud.) 



Mr. Wrtght (p. 318) remarks: »abundant in Hooker's time, now rare». I 

 suppose that he has this statement from Mrs. Vallentin; it is nevertheless incorrect. 



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