FLOWERING PLANTS. — DR. HOOKER. 
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13. Cotula (Leptinella) plumosa, Ilooic.f. Fl. Antarct. 26 and 308, t. 20. 
On cliffs, especially near the sea, often foi’ming immense luxuriant hlue-green 
})atches Avherc the soil is enriched hy the dung of birds and seals. (Crozets, Kidder ; 
Lord Auckland, Campbell’s, and Mac Quarrie Islands.) 
Reputed by tlie Avhalers to be a prompt and effectual emetic. Through a typo- 
graphical omission of the word not at p. 308 of the Antarctic Rlora, this jilant is 
stated to be found on the continent of Ameidca. The genus Leptinella is reduced 
to a Cotula in the Genera Plantarum. This plant, like the Frimjlea, proved so 
impatient of heat in tins country, that of innumerable seedlings raised at Kew to 
several inches high all perished. 
14. Limosella aquatica, L. 
Common in the freshwater lagoon at Christmas Harbour. (Fuegia and all 
temperate regions.) 
A very small form, with the leaf -blade hardly broader than the petiole. Stamens 
included. Ooarij globose ; style rather long. 
15. Juncus SCh.euzerioid.es, Gaud.; Uook.f. Flor. Antarct., 79, 358. 
Common in spongy places. (Fuegia, the Falkland, Lord Auckland, and Camj)- 
bcll’s Islands.) 
16. Uncinia compacta, Br.; Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Tasman, ii. 103, t. 
153 B. 
Royal Sound and Observatory Bay, Moseley, Eaton. (Mountains of Tasmania 
and New Zealand.) 
17. Deschampsia antarctica, Rook. Ic. Fl. t. 150 (Aira) ; Rook. f. Fl. 
Antarct. 377, t. 133. 
Common and ascending to considerable altitudes. (Fuegia, Falkland Islands, 
South Shetlands.) 
A true Deschampsia, as- that genus is now defined, by its 4-toothcd flowering 
glume and free caryopsis, Munro. 
18. Agrostis magellanica, Lamk.; Rook.f. Fl. Antarct. 373. A. antarc- 
tica, ibid. 373, t. 132. A multicaulis, ibid. 95. 
Common throughout the island. (Marion and Heard Islands, ; Chili, 
Fuegia, Falkland, and Campbell’s Islands.) 
Since the publication of this plant as A. antarctica, I have examined a specimen 
of Lamarck’s A. magellanica named by Nees in Arnott’s Herbarium, and find it to 
be identical. Further, Munro informs me that it is fairly described by Trinius in his 
“ Agrostideae,” and by Kunth in his supplemental volume (p. 175) from a Lamarckiau 
specimen ; he adds that the Kerguelen specimens agree Avith these descriptions, except 
in the flowering glume being larger and much longer than the OA-ary. This glume 
is sometimes obtuse or rounded, at others deeply divided. The beard on the callus, 
which is very indistinct on the Kerguelen’s plant, is conspicuous on some Fuegian 
ones. 
