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BOTANY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 
Y .—Lichens. 
By the Eev. J. M. Crombie, F.L.S. 
The first record that we can find of the Lichen-flora of this remote island, is con- 
tained in a preliminary account of the Antarctic Lichens collected by Dr. J. D. 
Hooker * during the voyage of the “Erebus” and “Terror,” which was published 
by him and Dr. Thomas Taylor in the “London Journal of Botany” (1844), 
Tol. iii. pp. 034-058. The Kerguelen Island lichens there enumerated amount in 
number to 17 species, named by Dr. Taylor ; hut at least one half of the names 
attributed to them ai-e misapiilicd, and therefore must he excluded, owing chiefly to 
the determinations having been attempted in the absence of such microscopical 
analysis of the specimens as is now found to be essential for their discrimination. 
The number was subsequently raised to 27 species and varieties, when the list was 
revised by the Rev. Churchill Bahington for publication in Dr. Hooker’s “Flora 
Antarctica ” (1847), vol. ii. pp. 619-642. A considerable proportion of the names 
in this later list must however he rejected for the same reason as those erased from 
the previous one. Unfortunately authentic examples of several of Dr. Taylor’s 
critical species are wanting in the Kew Herbarium ; f and his collection (now in 
the Herbarium of the Boston Society of Natural History), according to Professor 
Edw. Tuckerman, contains very little that is illustrative of his Kerguelen Island 
determinations. I have lately published a further revision of the Kerguelen Island 
Lichens coUeoted by Dr. Hooker, in the “ Journal of Botany ” for April 1877, 
wherein the number of the species is reckoned to he 18 or 19 besides 2 named 
forms. 
Mr. Moseley of the Challenger Expedition gathered in this island upwards of 
13 species and 1 named form. {Vide Crombie in Jorn-n. Linn. Soe. Bot. 1877.) 
Dr. Kidder of the American Transit of Venus Expedition collected in the 
vicinage of Molloy Point 13 or 14 species and 1 named form. These ndth others 
from the Taylor collection are specified by Prof. Ed. Tuckerman in Bulletin U.S. 
Nat. Mus. No. 3 (1870), and are noticed by me in the “ Journal of Botany ” for 
April 1877. 
The collection made by Mr. Eaton between tjio end of October 1874 and the end 
of February 1876, in the district immediately to the westward of Dr. Kidder’s 
station, comprises 50 or 51 species and 9 named forms. Of these about 30 were 
* One (or more) species of Lichens was obtained in Kerguelen Island in 1776 by Mr. Anderson, the 
Surgeon and Naturalist who accompanied Captain Cook. — A. E. E. 
I Dr. Taylor died shortly after the publication of his first rough determination of the Antarctic Lichens, 
and it was impossible to recover from the heap of his unarranged materials, which were in a confused state, 
all of the specimens which should have been returned. 1 strongly suspect, from the state of his notes sent 
to me from time to time, that he did not attend sufficiently to localities, and that some of the specimens in 
the Herbarium labelled ns from Kerguelen Island did not come from that island. — J. D. II. 
