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BOTANY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 
Farlolo in Bull. TI. S. Nat. Mas. 1876, 3, 30. Plocamium? magellanicum, Book, 
f. and Baro. Flor. Antarct. 474. Tliamnophora magollanica, Mont. 
Claristmas Ilarboiu’, Booker, Moseley. lu tideways and on parts of islands 
open to a slight swell from the outer sea, not in sheltered waters ; Swain’s Bay, 
Eaton ; Boyal Sound, Kidder. (Falklands and Fuegia.) 
1. Melobesia antarctica, Ag.; Biclde in Journ. Linn. (S'oe. XV. 200. M. 
verrucata, Lamx ; Dickie 1. c. 45. M. verruoata, var. antarctica. Book, and Barv. 
Flor. Antarct. 482. 
On Ballia, ^c., Swain’s Bay, Eaton ; Christmas Harhour, Booker. (Fuegia, 
Falklands, Tasmania, New Zealand, Auckland, Antarctic Seas.) 
2. Melobesia lichenoides. Ell. and Sol. ; Dickie in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 
200 . 
Swain’s Bay, common, Eaton. The only example preserved was grappled in 
about 2 fathoms in a tideway between two islands, incrusting two sponges 
(Microciona atrosanguinea, Bk., and Balichondria incrustans, Jtn. ; both British 
species.) It is normal in habit, texture, and in the character of the keramidia, and 
is very luxuriant, measuring about 3 inches square. (St. Paul’s Island, Norfolk 
Island, the Mediterranean, France, Britain, Baffin’s Bay.) 
3. Melobesia kerguelena, Dickie in Journ. Dot. V. 51, 1870, et in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xv. 200 ; simplex, 2J poll, diam., dnra, crassa, tantum in medio suhtus 
adhoerens, suheonvexa, circumscriptione orbiculari, margine Isevi parce undulata, 
keramidiis conspicuis numerosis plerumque in seriehus concentrice dispositis. 
Swain’s Bay in 2-3 fathoms, with the preceding, Eaton. 
Mr. Eaton has an impression that this grows upon Ballia or Ptilota, hut I 
should rather he disposed to suspect that it was attached to rocks. The description 
was taken from an almost complete specimen ; there are fragments of others whose 
contour is less regular, probably through interference of external objects. All of 
them are in colour of a very pale huff or dull yellowish hue, varied with pale red 
tints. 
1. Delesseria Lyallii, Book. f. and Ban. Flor. Antarct. 471, t. clxxvi; 
Dickie in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 45, 200 ; Farlow in Bull. TI. S. Nat. Mus. 1870, 
3, 30. 
Christmas Harbour, Booker (but not seen attached), Moseley. Observatory Bay 
(ill grown), and Swain’s Bay (well grown), abundant, Eaton. (Marion Island, 
Falklands.) 
Dr. Hooker obtaining only wrecked specimens at Christmas Harbour, was led to 
suppose that this species was a resident of the exposed coast. It is however common 
in the very sheltered waters of Observatory Bay, though it certainly does not thrive 
there ; and it is abundant and luxuriant round the islands in Swain’s Bay, in 3-5 
fathoms. 
