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Below I have tried to divide the plants into three classes with reference to the con- 

 spicuosity of their flowers. The third embraces species with very conspicuous ones, 

 such as Sisyrinchium, Ghiliotrichum, Senecio litoralis etc, the second, species with 

 less conspicuous flowers, as Gentiana, Cardamine, Caltha sagittata etc, the first such 

 with quite inconspicuous flowers, as Azorella, Colohanthus and others. The colours are 

 divided in five classes: green (also greenish-white, brownish green etc), white (also 

 cream, very light shades of lilac etc), yellow, red and blue.^ 



Conspicuosity of flovver or inflorescence. 

 3 2 1 



Green O 1 {Chlofcea) 9 10 



White 12 14 20 46 



Yellow 11 7 8 26 



Red 1 (CdUmdfuiia, wiiitc tu 3 {AnagulUs and Aimcria 1 'yEpilubiiim påle pink) .... 5 



magenta) pink, Lagenophora 



bright) 



IJluc 1 {Perezia, all shades from O O 1 



azure to white) 



25 25 38 88 



Thus, of the 88 presumably entomogamous species contained in my lists, not 

 less than 39 have very minute, inconspicuous flowers (heads, umbels etc). And of 

 the most visible species, only the following may be called showy: Ccdceolaria 

 biflora (very rare!), C. Fothergillii, perhaps the most multicoloured species, Codonorchis 

 Lessonii, Leuceria suaveolens, Nassauvia serpens, Oxalis enneaphylla, Perezia recurvata, 

 Primula magellaiiica, Senecio candicans, Darivinii and litoralis, Sisyrinchium filifolium, 

 Veronica elliptica. 



As a whole, anemogamous plants predominate. Certainly, they are inferior in 

 number, counting 55, but some of them occur in enormous masses, for example 

 Cortaderia in the »meadow» and Empetrum in the »heath». It is generally maintained, 

 that the predominance of anemogamous plants on oceanic islands is due to the 

 windy climate. If, on the one hand it is true that the climate of the Falklands is 

 distinctly unfavourable for insects and thus perhaps for plants fertilized by them, 

 I cannot, on the other hand, see, hoAv a stormy climate should be of special ad van- 

 tage for the pollination of anemogams, for the lightest breeze is sufficient for the 

 dispersal of pollen-grains, and the strong winds may even be injurious. 



As anemogams we have to consider: 19 Graniinece, 17 Cyperaceoe, 4 Juncaceoe, 

 Äccena (4 species), Callitriche^ (1), Chenopodinm (1), Drajjetes (1), Empetrum (1), 

 Gaimardia (1), Gunnera (1), Litorella (1), Myriophyllum (1), Plantago (2) and 

 Tetroncium (1). 



^ There will be noted a certain diiference between this exposition and that given by me in »Feuerl. 



Bliiten» — tho same species may appear considerably more conspicuous in the Falklands, where the competi- 

 tion is less. » 



* I am not positive as to CaUitriche belonging to this group. 



