to Sagina, to be far removed from that genus, while the habit is not that of any of this Order. The present
plant differs from its congeners in being rigid and somewhat pungent ; the structure of the flower however
entirely agrees with that of the previously described species. All the specimens I have examined from this
locality have a 5-sepalous perianth, which in the South American state of the plant is as invariably 4-sepaIous.
It is also apt to assume here a monstrous state, the central axis of the capsule becoming proliferous and sending
out from the position of the placenta (in the natural state) two foliaceous shoots, each with two pairs of leaves,
projecting beyond the perianth, and the o\-ules (abortive) arranged round the bases of these shoots.
2. CoLOBANTHUS Ho o k . fil. ; densissime com p actu s carnosus, ram is confertis foliosis,
foliis are te im b ric a tis p a ten tim recu rv is lin e a ri-su b u la tis o b tu sis su p ra planis b asi la ta connatis,
p ed u n cu lis brevissimis solitariis te rm in a lib u s su p e rn e in c ra ssa tis, p erian th io herbáceo parvo compresso
, sepalis 4 erectis lanceolatis o b tu sis concavis exterioribus ma joribus dorso obscure c a riu atis,
s tam in ib u s 4 p e r p a ria ap p ro x im a tis ex an n u lo perig y n o in c rassato ortis.
H a b . L o rd A u ck lan d ’s g ro u p an d Campbell’s Is la n d ; on w et rocks especially n e a r th e sea,
an d im mediately above h ig h -w a te r m a rk .
The smallest species in regard to size of leaves and flower with which I am acquainted, and yet perhaps
most nearly allied to the finest of the genus, a Kerguelen's Land species. The whole plant is densely matted
and fleshy, forming compact tufts. Stems 3-4 inches long. Leaves 2 lines. The flowers are much compressed,
very minute and inconspicuous, 1 line long, sunk among the leaves. Perianth of four erect sepals, of which the
lateral are larger, more concave, and keeled at the back. Perigynous ring very conspicuous, and swollen into
two large yellow fleshy glands between the bases of the stamens.
3. C o l o b a n t h u s Bilia rd ie ri, Fen z l, A n n . Wien. Mus. 1. 4 ^ , in not. S p e rg u la ap e tala , L a b .F l.
No v. HolL vol. i .p . 1 1 2 .1 . 182. VeC. P ro d r . vol. i. p. 395. Hook. fi l. in B o t. Journ. vol. ii. p. 410.
S tellaria uniflora. Ba n k s a n d Sol. M S S . in Mus. Bank s.
H a b . Campbell’s Is lan d ; on b an k s n e a r th e sea, scarce.
This species was originally discovered by Banks and Solander at Totarra nui, in the Northern Island of
New Zealand, during Captain Cook’s first voyage, and an excellent drawing of it, by Parkinson, is presen-ed in
the Banksian collection. Labillardière afterwards detected it in Tasmania, whence Mr. Gunn sent beautiful
specimens, in describing which I had occasion to notice its near affinity with the genus Sagina. Fenzl {I. c.
according to Walper’s Reperì, vol. ii. p. 249) quotes the Sagina crassifoUa, D’Urv., as a synonym of his C. Biliardieri,
and reduces the original plant of Labillardière to a variety, under the name of (3. procerior. Wha t I
take for the plant of Admiral D’Urville, whose description (Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 617) is very characteristic,
is much larger, of a different habit, and with truly linear very fleshy leaves, and is common in the Falklands,
as well as the C. Quitensis, Bartl., which is closely allied to the C. affinis (Spergula affinis. Hook. Icon.
Plant, vol. iii. t. 266). Labillardière says of the stamens of C. Biliardieri, “ sub pistillo inserta,” but this is not
the case with the specimens I have examined. They are clearly placed at the exterior of a membranous disc
which surrounds the perianth, remote from the base of the ovary. The Campbell’s Island specimens are very
small, scarcely an inch high, whereas the Tasmanian are twice or thrice that size.
i .
XI. C R A S SU L A C E ^ , DeC.
1. B c l l ia r d a mosckata, D ’Un -., FL In s . M a l. L c. p. 618. Gaud, in Fre y c . Voy. B o t. p . 138.
B. Magellanica, DeC. Bu ll. Philom. n. 4 9 , T i ll^ a mo sch a ta, DeC. P ro d r . vol. iii. p . 3 8 2 . Hook. Icon.
P la n t, t. 535. Crassu la moscha ta, F o rst. A c t. Goett. ix. p. 26.
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 la n d ; ab u n d a n t on w et ro ck s im m ed ia te ly
above h ig h -w a te r mark.
Petalo patentia, obovato-cuneata, concava, albida, s®pe rubro-striata. Filamento subulata, carnosa, siccitate
compressa et u t ridetur dilatata. Squama hypoggna 4, carpellis oppositis et iis paulo breviores, cuneat®.
Carpella trigona, obovata, superne oblique truncata, dorso canaliculata : stylis brevibus, recurvis.
The geographical range of this species is wide, being found along the west coast of South America, from
lat. 46° S. to Cape Horn, and also in the Falklands and Kerguelen’s Land, but nowhere so abundantly as in
this group. Notwithstanding the name given it by its discoverer, I was unable to detect any odour of musk or
smell of any kind in the fresh plant.
XII. UMBELLIFERÆ, Juss.
I . P O Z O A, Lag.
S u b g en . S c h iz e il e m a , Hook. fi l. {Involucrum o-Q-pliylluni. Flores h ermaphroditi.— Herbáceo-
1. P o zoA reniforrais. Ho o k , fil.; foliis lo n g e p e tio la tis ren ifo rm ib u s mu ltilo b a tis lobis latis
re tu sis, petiolis basi v ag in an tib u s, p ed u n cu lis petiolo b revioribus, in v o lu cri foliobs 3 - 4 lin e a rib u s, p e dicellis
5—7 b rev ib u s, calycis lobis late ovatis ob tu sis. (T a b . X I .)
H a b . L o rd A u ck lan d ’s g ro u p ; clefts o f ro ck s an d am o n g st sto n es on th e hills, a lt. 1400 feet.
Herba pusilla, glaberrima, carnosa, facie Hydrocotylis, graveolens. Caulis crassitie penn® passerinæ, longe
repens, articulatus, nodosus, ad nodos cicatricatus, apice foliosus. Folia - i - | unc. lata, exacte reniformia, luride
viridia, nitentia, radiatim venosa, lobis late rotundatis. Petioli 2-3 unciales ; vaginis basi magnis latis, superne
acutis. Pedunculi ex axillis foliorum, breves, semipollicares. Pedicelli vix 2 lin. longi. Petalo parva, obovata,
subacuta, medio late uninèrvia. Slylopodia superne truncata. Fructus oblongus, tetragonus; mericarpiis demum
dorso canaliculatis,
A decidedly extra-tropical South American form, belonging to a section of the Nat. Ord. hitherto un known
to the Floras both of New Zealand and Australia. The remarkable similarity of the flower and fruit to
those of the P. coriacea. Lag. (Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. i. p. 331. t. 66), together with the uniformity in the structure
of its calyx and petals with that plant, have induced me to refer it to the same genus ; but, from the
difference in habit and the structure of the involucre of the species thus brought together. I have ventured to
place this in a separate subgenus. The original species (P . coriacea), and the P . hydrocotylifolia. Bridges and
Fielding (Sertum Plant, t. 40), have the flowers monoecious, a character I do not observe in this. The similarity
which the present plant bears to the genus Azorella, Gaud,, is in many respects close ; the mericarps of this
are hardly '■ paraUelim blscutata,” whilst those of Azorella are scarcely didymous. Though a very remarkable
habit runs through most of the species of the la tter genus, one of them, the A . Ranunculus, D’Urv., not only
differs from its congeners in form and mode of growth, but in these respects much resembles this plant. In the