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Plantago? monanthos, D'Urv. ; (No. 28). Root many-crowned; leaves more or less den- 

 tate ; flowers single, axillary. Frequent on the rocks of the sea-coast. 



? (No. 29; a congener of the preceding). Congested into a carpet-like surfoce, 



marked out into stars by its radiating crowns of short rigid leaves. Only on mountain- 

 summits. 



Embothrium coccineum, (No. 1). A straggling shrub, much resembling a low Rhodo- 

 dendron. Growing only on stony hills of moderate elevation, where the soil seemed a 

 little drier than usual. 



Nanodea muscosa, (No. 1. Perhaps the most diminutive of all shrubs and woody plants); 

 readily escaping observation, but for the solitary terminal berry on the surface of the 

 sod. Fi'equent. 



Fagus (Antarctica, No. 3 ; the hazel-leaved beech). In the forest, a tree thirty feet high ; 

 in the open ground, only a shrub ; and on mountain-summits, a short prostrate vine, 

 its branches not rising an inch above the sod. 



(Nov. gen. ? betuloides. No. 1); Fagus of authors; the "evergreen birch." Mainly con- 

 stituting the forest ; being in some rare instances, more than forty feet high. 



Calopogon ? Lessonii, (No. 1). In the forest ; somewhat rare. 



Witsena (Magellanica, No. 2). Cespitose ; comb-like, projecting scarcely an inch above 

 the sod. Rather frequent. 



Gren. Anthericum-like (No. 1). A single terminal flower. On mountain-summits ; some- 

 what rare. 



Callixine marginata, (No. 1). Frequent; growing chiefly in the shade of the forest, or 

 at no great distance from it. 



Nov. gen. pumilum, (No. 1) ; Melanthium of Forster. In great profusion, often occupy- 

 ing extensive tracts of the subalpine upland. 



Tetroncium (No. 1); Gen. of Endlicher, allied to Triglochin. Dioecious; and having 

 four stigmas. On moist declivities. 



Juncus (No. 37). Stem and leaves articulate ; the florets clustered. 



(No. 38). A single terminal floret; the carpel large and black, obtuse. On 



the mountains. 



Nov. gen. ? grandiflorus, (No. 1); Juncus of authors. Abundant everywhere on the subalpine 

 upland; extending through the boggy surface in linear comb-like files of upright stems. 

 Luzula (No. 9). Resembling L. spicata. On the mountains. 



alopecurus, Desv. ? (No. 10). Larger than No. 9, with the florets more nume- 

 rous. On the subalpine upland. 

 Gaimardia Australis, (No. 1). On the mountains. 



Gen. near Scleria (No. 1) ; the young unexpanded spikes compressed, much as in 



Abilgaardia. Frequent on the subalpine upland. 

 (No. 2). Larger ; black-fruited. Frequent. 



Carex (No. 79). Strongly resembling C. cespitosa. Short. Growing on moist declivities 



on the mountains. 

 (No. 80) ; much like C. atrata. 



(No. 81) ; allied to C. paupercula. A single spike; the fruit reflexed. 



(No. 82). Having a single spike. 



? (No. 83). Habit of Schojnus; a single spike, the fruit rostrate. Growing on 



mountain-summits. 



Uncinia (No. 4); Carex-like. Found besides at "Good-Success Bay" by Mr. Rich. 



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