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the sealers’ lints and works.” I have also seen specimens collected by Tennant on 
Auckland Island, and by Laing on Campbell Island. It is naturalized in Southern 
Patagonia, Fuegia, and Falkland Islands. Dr. Schimper, in the “Valdivia” 
expedition, found it plentiful on Kerguelen Island, and remarked on its capability of 
flowering through the winter months. During the cruise of the “ Challenger” it was 
gathered on Marion Island, one of the Crozet Group. 
ColobANTHUS MUSCOIDES Hook. f. 
Colobanthus muscoides Hook. f. FI. Antarct. I (1844), p. 14, and Handbk. N.Z. FI. 
(1864), p. 25; Homb. and Jaccp Voy. au Pole Sud Bot. (1853), t. 17; T. Kirk 
Students’ FI. (1899), p. 62; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906), p. 66, and Subantarct. 
Islands of N.Z. II (1909), p. 401. 
Macquarie Island :•—Rocky beaches and cliffs near the sea, abundant. Scott 
(1880); A. Hamilton (1894); H. Hamilton (1912-1913). 
Colobanthus muscoides is abundant on coastal rocks and cliffs on the shore line 
of all the subantarctic islands of New Zealand, often in situations where, as A. Hamilton 
states, it must be frequently drenched with salt water. It does not stretch as far 
north as Stewart Island, nor is it found in the South Georgia and Kerguelen groups of 
islands, or in Fuegia. It forms bright green cushions of variable size, sometimes as 
much as 40 cm. in diameter, although usually much less. On the surface of these 
cushions other little plants grow, such as Tillcea moschata, Scirpus aucklandicus , and 
Ranunculus biternatus , together with a few mosses and Hepatic*. The interior of the 
cushion is well described by Kirk “ as consisting of the partially decomposed stems 
and leaves of old plants and the roots of young plants,” forming a peaty mass usually 
saturated with water. 
In the Flora Antarctica Hooker remarks that C. muscoides is “ perhaps most 
nearly allied to the finest of the genus—a Kerguelen’s Land species”— C. Kerguelensis 
Hook. f. 
Colobanthus Billardieri Fenzl. 
Colobanthus Billardieri Fenzl in Ann. Wien. Mus. I (1836), p. 49; Hook. f. FI. Antarct. I 
(1844), p. 14, and FI. Nov. Zel. I (1853), p. 27; T. Kirk Students’ FI. (1899), p. 60; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. p. 67, and Subantarctic Islands of N.Z. II (1909), p. 401. 
Macquarie Island :—Locality not specified, A. Hamilton (1894); North end, and 
West Point, H. Hamilton (1912-1913). 
Probably not a common plant in Macquarie Island. A. Hamilton explicitly 
states that it is not so plentiful as C. muscoides; and H. Hamilton nowhere speaks of it 
as widely distributed. In my memoir on the Subantarctic Islands I mention that 
all the specimens examined by me from the Southern Islands are referable to an 
unusually small state, barely more than 1-25 cm. high. A depressed patch without 
