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CARL SKOTTSBERG, A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



Ground cover: 



Greg. Gunnera magellatiicu 

 Cop. Bleclmnm penna mariita 



Spårs. Juncus scheuclizerioides 

 Pratia repens 

 Veronica serpyllifolia 



Sol. (huiphulium (iffnic 



liuiinnciilns sericcocrplialtit 



On the damp bank next to the water were carpets of mosses and liverworts: 

 Brachythechim suhplicatum, Brymn pseudofallax Card. n, sp., Spegazzinii, DicJwdofithim 

 persquarrosum, Pseudoleskea fuegiana, Sciaromium maritiimmi; Aneura floribunda, re- 

 gularis, Lophocolea vasculosa, Marchantia cepJialoscypha, Pallavicinia pisicolor. 



If the water flows very slowly, there is a different vegetation on the banks. 

 Chiliotrichum is entirely absent, and the soil is covered with the peat-forming Astelia- 

 association. 



The heath of the coastal helt. 



It is indeed not easy to know how much the heath has changed its aspect 

 since the introduction of sheep. Tliere is, however, a number of species, which by 

 the first botanists who visited the islands such as Gaudichaud, d'Urville and J, 

 D. HooKER, were stated to be fairly common, biit which are never or rarely fonnd 

 in the heath or meadow now, except on steep places near the sea, where they are 

 out of reach of the sheep. I shall describe two such locahties, both in Halfway Cove, 

 West Falklands. Some species belonging to the flora of the sea-coast occur here 

 together with the heath plants. 



6. W. F., Port Philomel, Halfway Cove. Coastal cliffs of sandstone, miich 

 weathered, över which the heath comes down on the terraces and ledges. — Pl. 

 XII: 1. 



Dwarf bushes: 



Greg. Empetrum ruhrum 

 Cop. Pernettya pumila 

 Spårs. — Cop. Baccharis magellanica 



Herbs and grasses; 



Greg. Aira prtscox 



Poa antarctica 

 Cop. Festuca magellanica 

 Luzula alopecuriis 

 Oxalis enneaphylla 

 Spårs. Acmna magellanica 



Calceolaria Fothergdlii 



Spårs. Peresia rccurvata 



Sol. Nasmuvla Gaudicliaudii 



Sol. 



Cerastium arvense 

 Poa annua 



Sisyrvnchium filifoUum 

 Apium australe 

 Arabis macloviana 

 Blechnum magellanicum 

 Ihriha fiiniculosa 



Galium antarcticum 

 Hieracium antarcticum 

 Leuceria suaveolens 

 Scnecio Darwinii f. 



» vulgaris 

 Troximum pumilum. 



Ground stratum: 



Patches of Blechnum penna marina. 



