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As miglit be expected, some of the species mentioned above as well as below, 

 are more or less confined to the vicinity of the sea. However, I have foimd it 

 more convenient to describe the vegetation here. The cryptogams will be enume- 

 rated below. 



7 . Same locality, a place wliere liumid, fertile soil had collected. 

 Sparse thickets of Chiliotriclium dijfusum. 



Cop. Hamadryas ar(jcntea Oxalis cnneaphylla G-alium antardicum 



HierochJoc mayellanica Viohi maculata Hieracium austroamcricanum 



Spårs. Apium austrulc Sol. Baccliaris magdlanicu liaimnculus hiternatus 



Ccrastium arvensc Descliampski ficxuosa Sisi/rincJiium filifolium 



Ground cover: 



Greg. Blcchnum penva marina Sol. Nertera depressa 



Crunnera magellanica . Bubus geoides. 



Bryophytes: Bartramia paténs, Blindia consimilis, Bryum litoris Card. n. sp.. 

 Ceratodon purpureus, DicJiodontium persqnarrosum, PterygopJiylhan denticulatum, Tor- 

 tula litorea Card. n. sp., Webera nutans; Jamesoniella sp., LopJiocolea propagulifera, 

 vasculosa, Syniphyogyna Hochstetteri. 



Lichens: Cladonia coccifera, gracilis, Parmelia physodes, cfr. saxatilis, Peltigera 

 canina, Sticta crocata, intricata, Freycinctii. 



As an appendix, I give the following list of bryophytes, collected round Port 

 Louis on localities of exactly the same type as 7: Bartramia paténs, Blindia consi- 

 fnilis, Brymn argenteum, perlimbaiu7n, Ceratodon purpureus, Dichodontium dier anelloi des 

 v. falklandicum, Grimmia apocarpa, Pseudoleskea fuegiana, Pterygophyllum decurrens, 

 Sciaromium maritimujn, Tortula densijolia, monoica, Webera albicans, alticaulis; Aneura 

 cochleata, floribunda, multifida, pinguis, LopJiocolea austrigena, Cunninghamii, propa- 

 gulifera, vascidosa. 



The Asteliji-associatioii. 



This is the Falkland representative of peat-mosses of high-moor type. There 

 is a remarkable difference between this high moor and that of the north temperate 

 zone, for in the Falklands Sphagnacece are of little importance; sometimes they are 

 altogether missing and, if present, confined to wet depressions in the bog, depressions 

 of secondary origin. In a manner Sphagna are replaced by a number of phanero- 

 gams, forming very dense and härd, generally low and flat cushions or carpets, where 

 sometimes several square metres may be formed by one single species. These peat- 

 bogs are not at all confined to the depressions, even if occupying jarger areas there 

 than elsewhere, but are also developed as easily recognised patches on the slopes or 

 upon the hills and ridges. This association is partly responsible for the immense 

 layers of peat that furnish the islanders with their only fuel; in places the peat is 

 several metres thick. As has been pointed out by Birger (p. 283) the ^s^eZ/a-carpet 



