60 BRodKLVN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 4. 
PLANTS COTJ.KC'l'Hn OX THE SOUTH GEORGIA 
i-:.\ri-:i)iTiox.' 
Bv Norman Ta^xor. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
'J'lie most C()ni|)lcte and recent account of llic vc.^'ctation of 
South Georgia ]\v Dr. Carl Skottsberg, credits only _'I4 s])ecies 
of plants to the island. These are distril)Uted as I'ulluws: iq 
vascular plants, <)() mosses, 36 hepatics. and 58 lichens. The 
number of s])ecics collected during the present expedition was 
18, representing (> sjjccies of vascular plants, i fungus, not 
before reixirted from Sontli (leorgia, 2 hepatics, i moss, and 
8 lichens. The s])eciniens representing the non-vascular 
groups have been sent to the specialists in those groups, and 
the specimens of vascular plants are deposited in the herbaria 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical 
Gar.len. 
Tile list of species collected follows: The numbers referred 
to are .Mr. Robert Cushman Mnr])hy's field ci>llection numbers. 
\ASCLT.AR PL.VNTS 
I'oLVSTiciirM MoiikoiDKs PLicxTTM ( F'orv ) Poepp. 
( Nos. 15 i<) and 1520. ) 
(\)llected at I'.ore X'alley, Cumberland I'.ay. 150 T^l. Dec. 
This is the most (lislincti\e of the three ferns found 011 the 
island. It is known througliont the Subantarclic. 
b'KSTrcA KKi{CT.\ D' I'rv. (No. i,S()i.) 
Collected at Hay of l^les, I'ebruarv 24. h)i,^ 
\ common grass often forming with . Irnriiu. a tundra \-ege- 
tioii; found in many other ]>arts of the South .Vtlantic. Grow- 
ing between hummocks of the tussock-grass, on the upper 
■In the determination of species other tl 
kind assistance of Mrs. E. G. Britton. Dr. M. 
MurriU. 
