KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDUNGAR. BAND 50- NIO 3. 61 



long (5 mm. + a beak of 2,5 mm.) pap- 

 pus 6 — 7 mm. 

 Palece 12—13 mm. long, aristate, with one 

 3 mm. long tooth on each side of the 

 truncate apex at the base of the arista. 



Palece as in H. arenaria, but lateral teeth 

 shorter. 



J. D, HooKER identifies Seriola apargioides Less. with H. arenaria Gaud. and 

 so does Reiciie. The samples of this plant from Kew, that I ha ve seen, are not iden- 

 tical with it; the peduncles are ramified, the heads larger and much broader, truncate 

 at the base and the scales rufo-hispid with very coarse hairs. In Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 II, p. 42 HooKER and Arnott mention a var. glabra of S. apargioides adding: An 

 H. arenaria Gaud.? They had seen specimens from the Falkland Islands, Port Desire 

 (Darwin) and Port Gregory (King). The same localities are quoted by J. D. Hooker 

 and other authors. I have seen all these specimens; the Falkland one is fl", arenana, 

 the plant from Port Gregory is probable a form of H. coro7iopifolia, the one from 

 Port Desire is in an imperfect state, but neither of them is identical with the Falk- 

 land plant. 



On sandy sea-shores, fairly common. E. F., Sparrow Cove! Stanley HarbourI 

 (also Birger!) San Carlos North! Darwin Harbour! W. F., Port Howard! Hill 

 Cove! Saunders Island! — Endemic. 



Taraxacuiii L. 



25. T. magellanicum CoMM. (T. lae vigatum DC.) 



In the heath, not uncommon: E. F., Port Louis! Port Stanley! W. F., Port 

 Philomel, near Halfway Cove! Rabbit Island! Hill Cove! New Island! — S. Pata- 

 gonia, Fuegia. 



Troxiinuiii Nutt. 



41. T. pumilum (Gaud.) de Wildem. (Taraxacum pumilum Gaud., Macrorhyn- 

 clius pumilus DC.) 



Sandy places near the sea or in the heath and meadows, probably common. 

 E. F., Port Louis! Port Stanley! Darwin Harbour! W. F., Fox Island! Port 

 Philomel, Halfway Cove! Hill Cove! — S. Patagonia, Fuegia. 



(Reiche, Fl. de Chile IV, p. 146, indicates Melalemma humijusum Hook. fil., 

 a rare alpine plant from Fuegia, as found in the Falklands also; this statement is 

 due to mistake, I think.) 



