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AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. 
CARD AMINE GLACIALIS D.C. 
var. subcarnosa 0 . R. Schulz. 
Cardamine glacicilis D.C. Syst. II (1821) p. 265, var. subcarnosa 0. R. Schulz in Engl. 
Jahr. XXXII (1903), p. 542; Cheesem. Subantarct. Islands of N.Z. II (1909), p. 398. 
C. hirsuta Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 655 var. subcarnosa Hook. f. FI. Antarct. I (1844), 
p. 5; T. Kirk Students’ FI. (1899), p. 27; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906), p. 33. 
Macquarie Island :—A. Hamilton (1894)? 
In the Students’ Flora Mr. T. Kirk included this species in the Macquarie Island 
florula, presumably on the authority of A. Hamilton’s collections, which he is known 
to have examined. But Hamilton referred his plant to C. corymbosa, and the statement 
he makes to the effect that “ it formed a green margin to the vegetation on the top of 
the beach wherever a creek or swamp ran out to the sea” agrees perfectly with the 
habitat given by Hooker for C. corymbosa in Campbell Island—“ turfy ground near the 
sea, common.” It is also noteworthy that H. Hamilton’s later collection includes 
specimens of C. corymbosa from several localities, but none of C. glacialis. On the 
other hand, Kirk was perfectly well acquainted with both plants, and gathered them 
during his visit to the Auckland and Campbell Islands in 1890. In any case, 
C. glacialis is a likely plant to occur in Macquarie Island; and it is just possible that 
specimens of both plants were included in A. Hamilton’s collection unknown to him. 
I therefore retain the plant on the list until further inquiry can be made. 
In addition to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands, var. subcarnosa is found 
in Southern Chili, Fuegia, and Falkland Islands. The typical plant has a wide 
distribution in Chili and Patagonia. 
CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 
Stellaria decipiens Hook. f. 
Stella.ria decipiens Hook. f. FI. Antarct. I (1844), p. 7, and Ic. Plant, t. 680, also 
Handbk. N.Z. FI. (1864), p. 23; T. Kirk Students’ FI. (1899), p. 57; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. FI. (1906), p. 63, and Subantarctic Islands of N.Z. II (1909), p. 401. 
Macquarie Island:- —Scott (1880); A. Hamilton (1894); H. Hamilton (1912- 
1913). 
Dr. Scott was the first to collect this plant, although it is not recorded in the 
list given in his paper, published in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 15. But in Kirk’s Notes 
on the Botany of the Antarctic Islands (Rept. Austral. Assoc., vol. 3 (1891), p. 226), 
an amended list of Scott’s plants is given, which contains the name of “Stellaria 
datinoides together with the remark “ a small scrap, but unmistakeable, omitted by 
Dr. Scott.” In a further note contributed by Kirk to A. Hamilton’s list of 1894 it is 
explained that through a slip of the pen “ elatinoides ” was written in mistake for 
“ decipiens 
