KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 50. N:0 3. 87 



Acccna ovalifoUa Calandrinia Feltonii Hieracium austro-americanum 



Aira parvula Calceolaria biflora Polygonum maritimum 



Asarca australis Carex (cmatorrliynclia Manunndus ncaulis 



» macroptera Cotula scariosa Veronica elliptica. 



Azorella ccespifosa Hamadryas argentca? 



2. Species only known from East Falklands: 



OpJiioglossum crotalophoroidcs Carex rallis pnlchrcv Banuncuhis hydropliilus 



Atropis Preslii Draha fulldandica » trulJifolius 



Agrostis prostrata Epilohium valdivicnse Bumex magellanicus 



Carex acaiiUs Euphrasia antarcHca Saxifraga cordillerarum 



■» caduca Gnaphalium anfarctieum Scldzcea fisfulnsa 



» canescens Koeleria Bergii Scirpus riparhis 



» decidua LimoscUa aquatica Stellaria dehiVis 



» macJoviann Litorella australis Tetroncium wagcllariimm 



» mageUamca Bannnnilns rrrspifosus Uncinia hrericnidis. 

 » microglocJiin 



Certainly we must not forget, that the Falkland Islands are not so well expJored 

 as might be desirable. With future discoveries alterations in these lists will most 

 likely appear necessary, but even if they should not remain at tlieir present length, 

 there is enough to make us guess at climatic differences. Anybody who is acqiiaintied 

 with the distribution of plants in subantarctic South America cannot fail to note 

 the presence of a considerable number of fems in West Falklands, which do not 

 exist in the East. They are generally too conspicuous to have escaped attention, 

 so I do not think that we can expect many new localities outside their present area 

 in the islands. Their distribution has already been spöken of in the first part of 

 this paper. It is most remarkable, that, with one exception — Cystopteris jragilis — 

 all of them belong to the rainy west coast of South Chile and Fuegia. To the 

 same group belongs Veronica elliptica. Thus, one would be inclined to think, that 

 there is a difference between the West and East Falklands in the amount or distri- 

 bution of rainfall, perhaps also in temperature, especially in the winter, making it 

 more like that of West Patagonia and the Fuegian archipelago. Mr. Felton of 

 West Point has told me that the winter in his place occasionally is unaccompa- 

 nied by snow or frost which I much doubt ever happens round Port Stanley. But 

 he also said that according to his opinion there is perhaps less rain in the far West than 

 in the East, I should have imagined exactly the contrary ! At any råte this shows how 

 regrettable it is that we have no records of the weather in any other part of the islands 

 than Port Stanley. At my request Mr. Felton undertook to make regular observations 

 and we communicated with the Meteorological Office in England in order to get him 

 provided with instruments. I do not know the reason why it never came to anything, 

 but he did not get the instruments. A series of observations from West Point Island 

 would, I am sure, have increased the possible value of this paper and would have 

 thrown light upon more than one obscure point. In the map at the end of the 

 paper I have marked the localities, where the most interesting forest ferns have been 

 found in the Falklands. 



