FLOWERING PLANTS.— DR. HOOKER. 
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island, and on this very plant. Moseley, Journ. Linn. Soe. xv., 54, in his notes on 
Kerguelen botany, mentions an apterous fly as big as a blow-fly, nestling at the base 
of the leaves of Tr'mglea and laying its eggs in the fluid which is caught there ; 
every cabbage yielding ten or a dozen specimens. He adds that be did not observe 
whether it climbs to the inflorescence in sunny weather. 
Mr. A. W. Bennett, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1874, xxxix., has described the pollen 
of Fringlea as differing from that of nearly all otbcr Crucifers in being much smaller 
and perfectly spherical, instead of ellipsoid with three furrows. This he considers 
to be a striking confirmation of my suggestion that the plant is wind-fertilized, and 
which is further confirmed by the total absence of hairs on the style. 
^loseley found one plant with 28 flower-stalks, three of the one season growth, 
the others appearing to belong to eight preceding seasons. 
It is a remarkable fact that all attempts to grow this plant in England, Scotland, 
and Ireland have failed ; the young plants, after attaining a height of a few inches 
and a good crown of leaves, have invariably succumbed to the (!omhined cfL'cts of 
summer’s heat, and the attacks of the common parasite fungus, Cgstopus candidm, 
which infests the Capsella Bursa-pastoris. Some few, out of many hundreds, 
sown at different seasons and iinder very varied conditions, survived one Avinter, but 
perished in the following summer. 
Plate II., Pig. 3. — 1, 2, 3, apetalous floAvers ; 1, monopetalous, and 5, tripetal- 
ous flowers ; (5, petal ; 7, OAnry ; 8, the same laid open ; 9, OAUile : — all enlarged. 
5. Colobanthus kerguelensis, Rook.f. Fi. Antarct. 249, t. 92. 
Christmas Harbour, Swain's Bay, &c. (Heard Island, Moseleg.) 
{Stellaria tnedia L.) 
Introduced by scalers. 
{Cerastium iriviale, Link.) 
Introduced by sealers. 
G. Lyallia kerguelensis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 548, t. 122 ; Kidder in 
Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 3., 22. Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. hr. 390. Dyer 
in Broc. Linn. Soc. 1874, xxxiv. 
Christmas Harbour and lloval Sound. 
The floAvers have been described from Kidder’s specimens by Asa Gray, and from 
^loseley’s by 01i\'er and Dyer, the descriptions agreeing aatII. The stamens, which 
appear to be almost constantly three and bypogynous, are stated by Oliver to be 
Anriable in position. Kidder retains it in Fortulacece, but Bentham and I had long 
previously placed it in Caryopliylleoe in the Genera Plantarum and next to Fy- 
cnorjhyllum, a position A\diich the discoA'crv of the floAvers confirms. It has man\’ of 
the characters of Colobanthus, especially the androccium. 
Pl.ate II., Pig. 2. — 1, plant, of natural size ; 2, leaves; 3, flower and bract; 
4, flower laid open ; 5, stamen : — all enlarged. 
