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358 Suppl. p. 209. Font. Comm. Goett. vol. ix. p. 27. t. 3. Gaud, in Ann. Sc, Nat. vol. v. p. 100, et in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 132. B'Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 603.

Hab. Strait of Magalhaens and throughout Fuegia, Commerson, Banks and Solander, fyc. Falkland Islands, very abundant, Gaud.icMud, and, all succeeding voyagers.

The miserable natives of Fuegia weave the steins of this rush into baskets, and in doing so seem to exhaust their cunning, for such baskets appeared to us to be the only article they possessed, exhibiting any attempt at such handy-craft as demands the slightest ingenuity, except, perhaps, the moveable heads of their sealing spears.

2. Eostkovia Magellanica, Hook. fil. I. c.

Hab. Strait of Magalhaens, Commerson ; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, /. B. II. ; Falkland Islands, very abundant, Gaudichaud, Sfc.

I am not aware of this species having been gathered in Fuegia since Commerson's time, except by myself; and though abundant in Hermite Island, it is probably scarce and alpine to the north of that locality, as it is also in Campbell's Island.

2. JUNCUS, L.

1. Juncus scheuckzerioides, Gaud.; Ft. Antarct. p. 79.

Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Famine, Cajjt. King ; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, /. B. H; Falkland Islands, very abundant, Gaudichaud, Sj-c; Kerguelen's Land, J.B.H.

Decidedly the most Antarctic Juncus, and exceedingly abundant at Cape Horn, the Falkland Islands, and Kerguelen's Land, where no other species of the genus exists. It is also a native of Campbell's Island and Lord Auckland's group.

2. Juncus planifotius, Brown, Prodr. p. 259. E. Meyer, Junci, n. 36, et in Linnaa, vol. iii. p. 370. La Harpe, in Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, vol. ii. p. 55. Kunth, En. Plant, vol. iii. p. 344. Hab. Chonos Archipelago, C. Barwin, Esq.

These, and other specimens gathered at Valdivia by Mr. Bridges, are the only extra-Australian individuals of this species that I have seen. Meyer remarks (Herb. Hook.), that there is no specific difference between the specimens of the New and Old World.

3. Juncus graminifolius, E. Meyer, in Ret. HanJc. vol. ii. p. 144. Cephaloxys graminifolia, Nees et Meyer, in Nov. Act. Acad. Cas. vol. xix. Suppl. p. 128. J. rivularis, Poeppig, fid. Meyer in Herb. Hook.

Hab. Chonos Archipelago, C. Barwin, Esq.

The present species, like the former, can scarcely be considered truly Antarctic, merely entering the northern limits which I have assigned to the Fuegian Flora. It ranges on the coast from Valparaiso to the latitude of Chonos Archipelago and is also found on the Cordillera of Peru. Meyer (Hook. Herb.) remarks that this hardly belongs to the genus Cephaloxys, on account of the structure of its capsule.

3. LUZULA, BC.

1. Luzula Alqpecurm, Desv. Bot. Journ. vol. i. p. 159. E. Meyer, in Reliq. ILenk. vol. ii. p. 145. Syn. Luzul. n. 5. La Harpe, in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. ii. p. 177.