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Carl skottsbero, a botanical survey of the falkland islands. 



Origiii of the Flora. 



In Stud. Pflanzenleb. Falkl. {14) I tried to subdivide the flora from a geo- 

 graphical poirit of view ; here it is possible for me to do this more exactly; group 1 

 (1. c.) has undergone some changes, gr. 6 has disappeared altogether as being quite 

 iinnatural ; some of the plants belonging to it have found a place in gr. 2 below. 



Group 1. South P.itagoiiiaii and Fuegiaii element. 



This is by far the largest group. Although many of the species are confined 

 to what is now generally called the subantarctic S. America, many others are of a 

 wider distribution. Here it is of less importance if a species is also boreal, or 

 new-zelandic etc; the main thing is to show that it is subantarctic in America 

 and I do not enter upon such questions as the relations between boreal and austral 

 types, or between Fuegia and New Zealand. I have made the following subdivision 

 of this group. An R designates a plant entirely or almost confined to the rainy 

 forest-zone (evergreen Nothofagus). 



A. Species occurring in the littoral region of the different zones, on 

 open spaces in the forest-zones and sometimes also in the alpine region; 

 several are common in the Magellan steppes without being pronounced 

 steppe-plants. 



Abrotanella emarginata 

 Acsena adscendens 

 » magellanica 

 Agropyrum magellaniouin 

 Aira parvula 

 Anagallis alternifolia 

 Apium australc 

 Armeria iiiacloviaua 

 Aster Vahlii 

 Atropis Preslii 

 Azorella filameutosa 

 » lycopodioides 



R 



Azorella ranunculus 

 Bleclinum penna marina 

 Calceolaria Fothergillii 

 Caltha sagittata 

 Cardamine glacialis 

 Carex »mathorriiyncha 



» canescens 



» decidua 



» fuscula 



» macloviana 



» magellanica 



» trifida 



Cerastium arvense 

 Colobantlius crassifolius 

 » subulatus 



R Cortaderia pilosa 

 Cotula scariosa 

 Crassula moschata 

 Empetrum rubrum 

 Epilobium valdiviense 

 Festuca arenaria 



» erecta 

 Galium antarcticum 

 Gnapbalium aftinc 



