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3. H amabbyas H o o k .fil,; foliis rotundatis 5 - 7 -fidis v. multilobatis, lobis creuatis utrmque
araclmoideis.
ILyb. Strait of Magalhaens ; Mount T am ; Capt. King.
I have seen but two specimens of this very distinct species, they are male and female, the scape of the former,
as in H. argentea, is one-flowered, that of the female has two flowers ; the root is elongated and tuberous, tluowing
out stout fibres.
4. C.V1THA, Pers.
1. Caltha sagittata, CavaniUes Icon. t. 4 14. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 44. Gand. in A?in. Sc. N a t.
vol. v. p. 105. et in Freyc. Toy. Bo t. p. 136. D ’ Urv. in Mem. Soc. L in n . Paris, vol. iv. p. 615. lIooJc.
fi l. in Bo t. Mag. t. 40 5 6 . C. multicapsularis, Banks et Sol. M S S . in Bihl. Banks. Forster, in Trans.
Lin n . Soc. vol, viii. p. 324.
H a b . Fuegia ; Commerson, Banks and Solander. P o rt Famine; Cagit. King and C. Danvin, Esq.
Hermite Is lan d ; / . D. H . Falkland Islan d s; Gaudichaud, D ’ Urville, J , D. H .,
Although placed by De CaudoUe in a separate section of the genus fi-om C. pahstris, this will rank more properly
with that species than u ith the two foUowing, especially as in its English representative there is an evident
tendency in the lobes of the leaf to become infiexed. The present varies exceedingly in size, according to the moistm-e
of the situation where it grows ; the flowers are pale yellow, as in the following, and have a faint honey-like smeU ;
the apices of the petals are slightly incrassated. A small state of it has been gathered by Mr. Bridges in Chbi, in
rivulets on the east side of the Andes, near the Volcano of Peteroa; it appears to be a pecidiarly southern species,
not inhabiting the level of the sea in a lower latitude than the Strait of Magalhaens.
2 . Caltha (Psycliroplbla, DC.) appendiculata, P e rs .; hunblis, dense cæspitosa, dioica, fobis breviter
petiolatis cuneatis trifidis segmentis bifidis basi appendicubs 2 bnearibus instructis, pedúnculo brevissimo,
sepabs linearibus gradatim attenuatis, carpeUis paucis. C. appendiculata, Persoon, Ench. vol, ii. p. 107.
DC. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 307. Prodr, vol. i. p. 44. D ’Urville et Gaudichaud, locis citatis. C. paradoxa,
Soland. M S S . in Bihl. Banks. Forst. in Trans. L in n . Soc. vol. vib. p. 3 2 4 .
H a b . Fuegia ; Bank s ^ ( 1 Solander. P o rt Famine ; Capt. King C. D arwin, Esq. Hermite Island,
ñ'om tb e sea to au elevation of 1200 feet ; J , D. H . Falkland Islands ; Gaudichaud, D ’ Urville, J . D. H.
Caules vabdi, dense cæspitosi, parce ramosi, subelongati, rebquiis vaginarum foliorum obtecti, hic iUic fibras
crassas emittentes. Folia crassa et carnosa ; petiolo sub 4 bbc. longo ; vagina latissima, membranacea, superne
utrinque in auriculam scariosam dilatata ; lamina basin versus biauriculata, auriculis e pagina superiore ortis laminæ
appressis linearibus emarginatis. F l. J Ia sc .—Fedunculus infra florem incrassatus, sulcatus. Sepala 5, patentia,
lanceolata, in caudam membranaceam attenuata, palbde flava, purpureo-marginata. Stamina plerumque 9, quorum
4 breviora diutiusque maturata. Ovaría 5, abortiva. F l. Foem.—Sepala ut in mare sed erecta. Stamina rudimentaria.
Ovaria 5-9, compressa, extus papillosa. Ovula 7-8. Semina sub 3, testa palbde brunnea nitida.
A highly cmious plant and different, almost genericaUy, from the former, in the dioecious flowers, the few
stamens and ovaria, the form of the sepals (which are thick and terminated by a long membranous apex), and especiaUy
in having the appendices of the leaves placed on the surface of the lamina. The flowers are rather pretty,
though smab, being pale yeUow and bordered with pui-ple, they exhale a faint sweetish odour. Both this and the
following constitute a material propoirion of the bog-earth in some parts of Hermite Island, and the present alone in
the Falklands, sometimes covering the ground in broad hard green tufts. They are eminently southern plants, not
being found to the northward of Fuegia.
3. Caltha (Psycliroplbla, DC.) dùoneoefolia, H o o k .; pumila, caulibus densissbne cæspitosis ramosis,
fobis orbiculari-ovatis bilobis lobis condupbcatis appendicubsque 2 appressis oblongis setoso-cibatis papiUosis,
stipubs maximis concavis, sepalis 5 oblongo-ovatis crassis apicibus obtusis membranaceis, staminibus 5 -7 ,
ovarbs 2 -3 . C. dioueæfoba, Hook, in Lond. Joimi. o f Bot, vol. ii. p. 306. (Ta b . LX X XIV .)
H a b . Fu eg ia ; Forster and C. Darwin, Esq. Hermite Island, from the sea to an altitude of 1500
fe e t; J .D .H .
Caules conferti, 3-4 unc. longi, stipubs scariosis foliorum delapsorum tecti, ramosi, hic ilbc fibras crassas sim-
plices emittentes. Fetioli breves, vabdi, in vaginam maxbnam concavam cymbifonnem dilatati; foborum lamma
vagina minor, sub 2 lin. longa, coriacea, superne læte vb-idis, papillosa, subtus palbdio, marginibus instar Dioneæ
ciliatis, appendicubs laminæ appressis, extus cibatis. Fedunculi breves, crassi, subclavati, obtuse trigoni, \ unc.
longi. Flores hermaplu-oditi ?, steUati, straminei, extus flavi. Sepala 5, patentia, eUiptico-ovata, carnosa, apice
obtuso membranaceo subappendiculato, nervis plurimis. Stamina plenunque 7, filamentis crassis purpureo-notatis,
antheris majuscubs. Ovaria 2-3, sæpissbne 2, obbque ovata, obtusa; ovubs 2-5.
Fb-st detected, but never described, by Forster, from whose collections we have a very smaU specimen, intermixed
with Oxalis Magellanica. In the southern pai-ts of Tiena del Fuego it is a very common plant, covering lai-ge tracts
of ground ivith a carpet of deep but shining green, upon which the steUate flowers have a very pretty appearance.
The similarity between the leaf of this and of the Dioneea muscipula, “ American Fly-trapfi is very striking.
P late LXXXIV. Fig. 1, back view, and 3, a side view of the leaf, petiole, and stipule or vagina ; 3, front
view of lamina, shoiring the appendages ; 4, flower ; 5, the same when fidly expanded :—ab ?
II. MAGNOLIACEaH, DC.
1. D R IM T S, Forst.
I . D bimys Winteri, Forst. Gen. p. 84. t. 42. L in n . Fil. Suppl. p. 269. Lamarck, Diet. vol. b, p. 331.
DC. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 4 43. Prodr. vol. i. p. 78. D. punctata, Lam. Diet. vol. b. p. 330. lUust. t. 494.
f. 1. Wbiterana aromatica, Soland. Med. Ohs. vol. v. p. 46. 1 .1. TVbitera aromatica, Murray, Syst. 507.
App. Med. vol. iv. p. 557. Humb. et Bonpl. vol. i. p. 209.
H a b . Strait of Magalliaens and Fuegia ; first noticed by Jolin JVinter who accompanied Drake’s voyage
in 1577, and since by ab voyagers and collectors.
A vei-y abundant tree thi-oughout the western and southern pai-ts of Fuegia, even in Hermite Island ascending
to 1000 feet. The natives use the stems of the j'omig trees, radely fashioning them into handles sometimes
ten feet long, for then- harpoons; but the wood is too soft aud supple. The bark has proved a most useful stomachic
and antiscorbutic to various voyagers, and especiaUy to a portion of the crew of the ‘Beagle’ dui-mg Capt.
King’s arduous sm-veying voyage (vide King’s Voyage, vol. i. p. 234.).
After a cai-efiil examination of a very extensive smte of examples, I have come to the conclusion that there is
but one South American species of this genus. There is a dissimdarity iu the foi-m of the foUage, even between the
North and South Fuegian states, the former having longer and more membranous leaves, differing in no respect
from spccbnens gathered near Valparaiso by GdUes, Cuming, aud Bertero, which generally pass under the name of
D. Chilensis, DC. From Juan Fernandez again, the plants codected by the two last-mentioned traveUers belong to
the same species : though the leaves are generaUy more linear, they are not so much so as iu some of the continental
states. In Brazil, the variety, caUcd D. Granatensis, L. fil., is found over the whole of that vast empbe, and equally
occiu's m New Grenada and the provbice of Santa Fc in Colombia. JL-. Gai-dner’s number 5675 precisely accords
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