at the apices of the serratures, which are there terminated by pencils of white hairs,
long slender peduncles. Stigma plumose.
[Auckland and
Flowers capitate upon
2. AcrENA (Ancistrum) adscendens, Vah l, E n um . vol. i. p. 297. EeC . P ro d r . vol. ii. p . 593.
A n c istrum h umile, P e rs. E n ch . vol. i. p. 30.
H a b . M 'Q u a r r ie ’s Is la n d . (Herb. Hook.)
This is perhaps the most common and widely diffused species of the genus, being found abundantly throughout
Chili and Fuegia, as well as in the Falkland Islands and Kerguelen’s Land. It may readily be distinguished
by its large size, and by its smooth red-brown, often glaucous, decumbent stems. The leaflets are generally
membranous, obovate or cuneate, ^ inch long, coarsely inciso-serrate, glabrous on the upper surface, pubescent
or almost silky beneath. ’The scapes or peduncles, bearing the globose capitula, are quite glabrous. 'The
whole plant varies much in the size and toothing of its leaflets, whence I am inclined to think it maybe
the large and ordinary form of A. Magellanica, L am.; although Vahl describes the peduncles of that plant
as “ superne subvillosi." I further doubt how far the A. ovalifolia, Ruiz, and Pav. (Fl. Per. t. 103. f. c.), will
prove distinct; it again is allied to the A. Sanguisorb/E, Vahl. The present form was not found either in Tasmania.
New Zealand, or in Lord Auckland’s or Campbell’s Islands. The fact of its reappearance in a higher
southern latitude is an interesting one. and in accordance with the known laws affecting the distribution of
plants.
VII. O N A G R A R I^ , J u s s .
1. E p il o b iu m linnmoides, Ho o k , f il.; h erb ac eum g la b e rrim um eaule rep en te vage ramoso,
ram is divaricatis ad sc en d en tib u s, foliis p etio la tis co rd a to -ro tu n d a tis flaccidis arg u te d en ta tis, p e d u n culis
solitariis axillaribus ra riu s te rm in a lib u s fobo lo n g io rib u s fructiferis scepe valde elongatis, floribus
e rec tis, sepalis apice g lan duloso-apiculatis, petalis (roséis) calyce lon g io rib u s cu n e atis p ro fu n d e bifidis,
stigm ate indiviso clavato, fru c tib u s g lab errimis erectis p ed ú n cu lo brevioribus. (T a b . VI.)
H a b . L o rd A u ck lan d ’s g ro u p an d Cam p b ell’s I s l a n d ; a b u n d a n t. Also more re c en tly found
am o n g st th e m o u n ta in s o f N ew Z e a lan d b y M r . Colenso.
A very pretty species, allied to the E . nummularifolium, H. Cunn., of New Zealand, but readily distinguished
by its much larger size and thin, flaccid (not fleshy) leaves, which are strongly eroso-dentate. In Mr.
Colenso’s specimens the stems are longer, and the leaves less rounded in form with longer petioles. Stems
weak, terete, 3-6 inches long. Leaves in rather remote pairs, bright green and shining above, often discoloured
and purplish beneath, inch long, sometimes broader than long. Petioles 1-3 lines. Peduncles, even when
flowering, very variable in length, from ^-3 inches long, generally erect. Sepals concave, especially towards
the apex, which is produced into a thickened, short, club-shaped apiculus or gland. Petals about half as long
again as the sepals. IL lin. long, of a pale rose-colour, bifid nearly half-way down. Filaments thickened at the
connectivum. Style gradually swelling upwards into a club-shaped obtuse stigma. Capsule (which I have
seen ripe only in the New Zealand specimens) narrow, erect, quite glabrous, about an inch long.
P l A T E VI. Fig. 1, flower spread open ; fig. 2, p e ta l; fig .S , flower with the petals removed ; fig. 4, front, and
fig. 5, back view of a stamen :—aU magnified.
2. E p il o b iu m co n /ertifo lm m, l l o o k . fn . ; h erb a c eum , g lab rum , caule rep en te rad ic an te ramoso,
ram is divai-icatis d e cum b en tib u s te re tib u s cum lineis d u abus oppositis incanis, foliis oppositis valde ap-
proximatis su b imb ricatis b rev ite r petiolatis oblongo-obovatis o b tu sis subcarnosis g laberrimis remote
e t obscure d en ta tis, petiolis ma rg in e incanis b asi co n n a tis su b v ag in a n tib u s , p ed u n c u lis sessilibus solita
riis axillaribus, floribus erectis, petalis ru b ris su b p u rp u re isv e ad m e d ium bifidis, ovario g lab errimo ,
stylo oblique clavato, capsula lineari e lo n g ata g lab e rrim a .— Hook. fil. in Icon. P la n t, t. 685.
H a b . L o rd A u ck lan d ’s g ro u p an d Cam p b ell’s I s l a n d ; on g ra s sy b an k s an d in m o ist pla ces,
ab u n d a n t.
This little plant in every respect occupies the place in these islands, th a t the E . alpinum, L., does on the
European mountains. The two species are indeed so very closely allied, that 1 look in vain for further constant
characters than the creeping and rooting much-branched stem, the densely crowded, broader, and more obovate
leaves with almost sheathing petioles, and the deeply bifid petals of the present one. The more remarkable
points of similarity, besides the general appearance, are the lines of pubescence on the stem, the sessUe or
shortly pedunculated ovaria (which in E . alpinum are however often lengthened), the deep colour of the petals,
and the simple clavate stigma, which is here decidedly oblique and gibbous at the base. A very simOar species
is found on the Andes of Peru and in Chili.
3. E p il o b iu m nerterioides, A. C u n n .; g la b e rrim um , caule rep en te rad ic an te , foliis oppositis
brev ite r p e tio la tis ellipticis ro tu n d a tisv e subcoriaceis e t carnosis ma rg in ib u s in te g ris re cu rv is, fru c tibus
g lab errimis p ed u n cu la tis inclina tis p en d u lisv e.— E . n e rte rio id e s, A. Cunn. P ro d r . Flor. No v. Z ea l,
in A n n . N a t. H is t. vol. iii. p. 32.
H a b . L o rd A u ck lan d ’s g ro u p ; in mo ist ro ck y places, a lt. 1200 feet, ra re , n o t fo u n d in flower
o r fru it.
In these very imperfect specimens the leaves are much more fleshy, and their margins more strongly recurved,
than in others gathered by Mr. Menzies in Dusky Bay. or by myself in the Bay of Islands. Like other
species however of the same genus, the plant is probably a very variable one. Mr. Cunningham quotes the E.
pendulum, Sol., as a synonym of E . nummularifolium, R. Cunn., a species very nearly allied to the present, but
larger, with distinctly crenate leaves, and having the capsules hoary with a white down. In habit and foliage
this plant resembles the Anagallis tenella, L., and as well as many of the New Zealand species, it has a peculiarly
creeping mode of growth, which none of those of the northern hemisphere possess.
VIII. HALORAGErE, Br.
1 . C a l l i t k i c i i e r e rn a , L . KeC. Proifi-. vol. iii. p. ;0 . H U r v . Fl. In s. M a l.in M em. S o c .L in n .
P a r . vol. iv. p. 620. Gaud, in Freyc. 'Foy. Bo t. p . 138.
Var./3. terrestris; caulibus brevissimis repentibus, foliis approximatis camosis.
H.a b . L o rd A u ck lan d ’s g ro u p a n d Campbell’s I s l a n d ; common on th e g ro u n d an d on wet
rocks n ea r th e sea. On th e g ro u n d by th e ma rgins o f pools, Cam p b ell’s Islan d .
A very general plant throughout the Antarctic Islands risited by the “ Erebus and Terror.” First noticed as
a native of the Falkland Islands by Admiral D’Urville, who, in his description of the plant, which is not uncommon
there, and is identical with the var. ¡3. of CampheU’s Island, alludes to the filament and ovarium as each
arising from a minute bipartite calyx. Neither in my dried specimens, nor when in a fresh state, could I detect
organs answering to this description. The bractem, which are extremely caducous, and only exist in the very
youngest state of the flower, are singularly falcate, Hnear-suhulate and membranaceous, similar to those of C.
platycarpa, Kiitzing. The leaves vary much in shape, and the whole plant in size, as in Europe. The anthers,
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