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BOTANY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 
American sealers. During the stay of the above-named expedition all the plants 
enumerated by Anderson as found by him in mid-summer were refound in mid- 
winter, together with many more, amounting to nearly 150, of AAdiich 18 were 
flowering plants ; the other large classes being mosses and Ilepaticse 35, Lichens 25, 
and Alga) 51. These have all been described in the botany of the voyage (Flora 
Antarctica, Part II., 1847). 
The next Ausit of naturalists to Kerguelen’s Land was that of the “ Challenger ” 
Expedition in January and February 1874, Avhen Mr. Moseley collected mostdiligently, 
l)oth in Christmas Ilarhour and on the east coast GO to 70 miles south-east of it. 
lie found 23 floAV'ering plants in all, including three European weeds, all annuals 
and doubtless imported by sealing parties {Cerastium triviale, T?oa pratensis and 
amma), and three species not in the collections of the Antarctic Expedition (tAvo 
llanunciili and an Uncinici). lie also procured flowering specimens of the tAAO 
endemic genera Vringlea and JLgaUia, and made large accessions to the cryptogamic 
flora, esjiecially from the southern localities Ausited. Mr. Moseley had also the good 
fortune to land upon Marion Island, 1,650 miles to the west of Kerguelen Island ; 
and on Yong Island (of the Ileard group), about 120 miles to the south-east of it, 
neither of AA'hich had been previously visited by any naturalists, and in both of 
Avhich he found some of the most peculiar of the Kerguelen plants. 
Mr. Eaton arriA'cd at Kerguelen Island with the Transit of Venus Expedition 
early in October 1874, and left towards the end of February 1875, during AAdiich 
time he collected diligcntlv, chieflv at RoA^al Sound, Swains’ Bav, and Ohservatorv 
Bay. He obtained nearly all the floAAXTing plants of previous explorers, and added 
Axry largely in the Cryptogams, especially to the Algae. 
Nearly contemporaneous A\dth Mr. Eaton’s visit Avas that of the American Transit 
Expedition, on Avhich Dr. Kidder was the naturalist. He arrived in September 1874 
and left in January of the folloAA ing year, haAdng explored some of the same localities 
as Mr. Eaton, llis collections, amounting to about 90 species, are described in the 
bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 3, issued in 1870 by the Government 
Printing Office of 'Washington. The flowering plants and ferns arc revised by Prof. 
A. Gray ; the mosses arc described by Thos. P. James ; the Lichens by Prof. E. 
Tuckerman, and the Algoe by Dr. W. G. FarloAv. Except amongst the Lichens, there 
are very few novelties. Dr. Kidder adds a list of seven plants from the Crozets, all 
identical AA'ith Kerguelen Island species.* 
The botanical results of the German Transit Expedition to Kerguelen Island are 
not yet published. 
The three small archipelagos of Kerguelen Island (including the Heard Islands), 
Marion and Prince EdAA'ard’s Islands, and the Crozets, are individually and collec- 
tively the most barren tracts on the Globe, Avliethcr in their own latitude or in 
* lie also mentions “ a small vine with blue flowers growing amongst scoria3,” of which no specimens were 
collected. This is probably some endemic plant unknown to botanists. 
