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BOTANY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 
Collie, in Ilook. Eot. Beccli. Voy. p. 4, t. ii.), which has similar minute subglobose 
rijic carpels without a style. 
It. nionanthos, Philippi of Chili, and It. hemignostus Stcud. of Peru, are probably 
forms of It. trullifoUus, which, as our figure show’s, is a very variable plant in foliage 
and structure. 
The Ranunculus, sp. 3, not in flower, of Kidder (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 3, 21), 
of which Gray says it can hardly be a form of tniUifolius, no doubt is this, if, as I 
apprehend, the term caudate as applied to the leaves is a misprint for cordate. 
Plate I., Pigs. 1-5. — Plants in different states; of natural size ; 6, 7, reduced 
leaves and stipules ; 8, sepal ; 9, petal ; 10 and 11, stamen ; 12, immature, and 
13, mature carpels : — all enlarged. 
3. Ranunculus Moseleyi, iZooA'. pusillus, glaberrimus, acaulis, foliis 
radicalibus, petiolo in laminam obovatain v. oblongam integerrimani dilatato, 
floribus solitariis pedunculatis minutis 3-4-nieris, petalis lineari-obovatis obtusis 
eglandulosis, staminibus 4-7, carpellis 10-12 maturis oblique subglobosis in stylum 
brevem gracilem abruptc attenuatis. — Banunculus an nov. sp. ; Oliver, in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. XIV., 389. 
In the lake at Christmas Harbour, Moseley. 
A very diminutive species, resembling in size and habit R. Umoselloides, Mnell, 
of Australia, but differing in the carpels, &c. In the latter respect it more nearly 
a])proaches R. erassipes, from wdiich it differs in all other respects. Its allies are, 
no doubt, to be found amongst the S. American water-loving species. 
Plate II., Pig. 1 — 1 and 2, plants of natural size ; 3, leaf ; 4, flower ; 5, sepal ; 
0, petal; 7, stamen; 8, immature; and 9, mature carpel: — all enlarged. 
4. Pringlea antiscorbutica, Rr. MSS. ; Fl. Antarct. 238, t. 90, 91 ; 
Kidder in Lull. I. S. Nat. Mus., No. 321 ; Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV., 389; 
Ihjer in Rroc. Linn. Soc. 1874, xxxiv. ; ILooh.f. 1. c. 
Throughout tlie island. — (Marion, Crozets, and Heard Islands). 
Sepala lineari-oblonga, obtusa, membranacea, pilosa. Retala 0 in exeinplaribus 
])erplurimis a nobis scrutatis, in jjaucis 1-4, unguiculata, apicc roseo-tincta, 
inconspicua, caduca. Stamina 6, suboequalia, filameutis elongatis complanatis, 
4 longioribus per paria sepalis anticis posticisque opposita ; antherm magnm, lineari- 
oblongic, vircscentes ; pollen sphericum. Disci glanduloe 0 v. valde inconspicua). 
Ovarium oblongum, hirsntum, 2-locnlare, carpellis latcralibus ; stylus brevis, validus, 
glaber, stigmate capitato obscure 2-lobo dense villoso. 
In the Proceedings of the Linnacan Society 1874, p. xxxiv, I have indicated the 
evidence of Fringlea being a wdnd-fcrtilizcd member of a natural order most or all 
the species of wliich are insect-fertilized. These indications are the usual absence 
of petals and disk-glands, the exserted anthers and long-tufted papillm of the stigma, 
to wdiich is to be added the absence of winged insects in Kerguelen Island. In 
reference to the last statement, it is a curious fact that wingless flics abound in the 
