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370 Valparaiso, and Conception, again at Yaldivia, finally disappearing at the Chonos Archipelago. Though we are now fairly acquainted with the botany of America south of lat. 33°, a more complete collection from the coast and mountains between the southern extreme of Chiloe and Cape Tres Montes is wanting; the proportion of new species would probably be small, but the investigation would exhibit the range of many Yaldivian and Fuegian plants, not contained in the invaluable Herbarium of Mr. Darwin, the only naturalist whose good fortune it has been to visit and explore that unfrequented line of coast.

3. Uxcixia JI(i<-/(>r}niia, Gaud., iii Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 99, et in Freyc. Toy. But. p. 412. Kunth, En. Plant, vol. ii. p. 526.

Hab. Falkland Islands ; Gaudichaud.

When botanizing in the Falkland Islands early in the winter of 1841, I found what I considered to be this plant, growing amongst grass in wet spongy bogs ; it was, however, in a very bad state, and the specimens, unfortunately, lost.

Brongniart unites this with U. plileoides, Pers.; but M. Kunth has kept it distinct.

4. Uncixia Kiugii, Boott ; spica eapitata fusca nuda apice mascula, stigmatibus 3, perigyniis (arista brevioribus) lanceolatis superne angustiori cybndraceis ore trtmcato oblique fisso ferrugineis glabris squama lanceolata fusco-ferrugiuea nervo pallido angustioribus longioribusque. Boott. (Tab. CXLV.)

Hab. Strait of Magalbaens ; Port Famine, Capt. King.

Csespitosa. Radix repens, tibroso-lanatus. Culmus 2-4 poll., lBevissimus, sulcatus, basi vaginis foborum castaneis laceratis tectus. Folia angusta, involuta, hinc filiformia, culmo breviora, apice margineque scabra. Spica 5-7 bn. longa, 3-6 lin. lata, congesto-capitata, apice flosculis masculis paucis inconspicuis, basi fcemineis 9-16 instructs. Squama foemineae lauceolatse, iniima mucronulata. Perigynium (cuni arista, stipiteque) 41-5 bn. longum, (ad basin) latum, superne cylindraceo-attenuatum, ore obbque fisso, fusco-ferrugineum, basi palbdum. Aclasnium 1 bn. long., -j bn. latum, oblongo-triquetrum, pallidum, basi styli incrassato apicidatum. Arista 4-4-j lin. longa, canaliculata, palbda, superne ferruginea, imo apice cblatata. Stylus inclusus. Stigmata 3, brevia. Boott.

Plate CXLV. Fig. 1, scale and male flower; fig. 2, scale and female flower; fig. 3, female flower, removed from the perigynium:&mdash;all magnified.

1. ALOPECURUS, L.

1. alpinus, Smith, ''Engl. Bot.'' t. 1126. ''Kunth, En. Plant.'', vol. i. p. 25.

Var. &beta;, aristatus. A. alpinus, Trinius, Ic. Gram. vol. i. t. 38. A. pratensis, Banks et Sol. in Mux. Banks. A. pratensis, var. spica ovata; Ledebour, in Herb. Hook. A. Baicalensis, Turz. in Herb. Hook. A. Antarcticus, Tahl, Synth, vol. ii. p. 18. Brougn. in Duperrcy, Toy. Bot. p. 16. Kunth, Agrost. p. 25. A. Magellanicus, Lamk. Illust. Gen. vol. i. p. 168. Gaudichaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 100, et in Freyc. Toy. Bot. p. 131. D'Urville, in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 600. (Tab. CXXX.)

Var. &gamma;, gracilior ; spica angustiore.

From tbe Strait of Magalbaens to Cape Horn, and throughout Fuegia and the Falkland Islands, abundant, Commerson, Banks and Solander, and all succeeding voyagers. Var. &beta;, Port Gregory, Capt. King.

This plant I believe to be specifically the same with the North-European and American A. alpinus, of which Smith considered it to be a variety. What appeared specific differences, were pointed out by Mr. Brown (in Appendix