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BOTANY
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T tlE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE.
FLORA ANTARCT ICA.
II . ANTARCTIC REGIONS, (exclitsite of L oed A eckland’s Ge o e p axb Campbell’s I sland).
T h e First Part of the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage is devoted to the vegetation of a few
islands, containing plants so pecidiar, and differing so remarkably from those of the other
South Polar Islands as to render it advisable that they shordd be described by themselves,
and should form a distmct and separate Flora. A review of tliis Flora, now completed, shows
the vegetation of Lord Aiicldand’s group and Campbell’s Island to be. in some measure, a
contimiatioii of that of New Zealand. This fact might have been inferred from the geographical
position of those islands, which are moreover the only countries k n ow where the peculiar
features of the Polymesian Flora are represented by species characteristic of an Antarctic
climate ; such features being indicated cliiefly by the paucity of ConipositÆ and predominance
of some slirubby Ruhiaceoe.
The pages of the present portion of the work are destined to contain descriptions of
all the plants ascertained to exist in wliat wo may term the Antarctic regions, (Lord Auckland’s
and Campbell’s Islands excepted), viz. Fuegia and some part of the south-west coast of Patagonia.
the Falkland Islands, Palmer’s Land, and the adjoining gi’oiips, as the South Shetlands,
South Georgia, &c.. and (proceeding eastward) Tristan d’Acimha and Kerguelen’s Land. I
shall preface the Flora of these widely severed, and in some cases very isolated spots, with a
few remarks upon each, aud on the general character of the whole as forming one great botanical
region.
It may appear paradoxical, at first sight, to associate the plants of Kerguelen’s Land with
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