It was during Cook's second voyage that he was accompanied by the two Forsters, men whose names are inseparably connected with the subject of Antarctic Botany. They visited New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego, making important collections at both, excellent drawings, and finally publishing two works, which as regards the plants of those countries, must ever be considered as classical ; these are the "Characteres Generum Plantarum Maris Australis," and the "Prodomus Florulse insidarum Australium." Sets of the plants, the drawings, and collections are, as well as those of Cook's thud voyage, deposited in the British Museum.
Cook's third voyage was not accompanied by any professed naturalist; all that we know of the flora of South Georgia, and, previous to the visit of the Antarctic Expedition, of the plants of Kerguelen's Land, we owe to Mr. Anderson, the surgeon of that expedition.
My own Herbarium of Falkland Island plants is particularly rich, and has also received accessions from Mr. Darwin, Captain Sulivan, Mr. Wright, and within the last few days from Mr. Chartres, Surgeon of H. M. S. 'Philomel,' now surveying these islands under the command of Captain Sulivan; to all of whom I here tender my sincere thanks.
I. RANUNCULACEÆ, Juss.
1. ANEMONE, Haller.
1. Anemone decapetala, Linn. Mant. 79. DC. Syst. Veg, vol. i. p. 200. Prodrom. vol. i. p. 19. Hook. et Am. Bot. Beechey, p. 3. t. 1. Delessert, Icones, t. 16. et t. 17. Hook, et Am. in Bot. Misc. vol. iii. p. 133. A. multinda, Poiref, Suppl. vol. i. p. 64. DC. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 209. Prodr. vol. i. p. 21. Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 7. Torrey and Gray, Flora of North Am. vol. i. p. 13. A. trilobata, Juss. Ann. Mus. vol. iii. p. 247. t. 21. f. 3. A. marcrorhiza, Dombey. (fid. DC.). A. triternata, Herb. Reg. Berol. (fid. Herb. Hook.) non Vahl. A. bicolor, Pœppig. (fid. Walpers, vol. i. p. 22.).
Hab. Strait of Magalhaens; Port Famine; Capt. King. Cape Negro and Elizabeth Island; C. Darwin, Esq.
Pilosa v. subsericea, spithamea ad 1½ ped. alta. Radix tuberosa. Folia 3—5-partita; segmentis linearibus v. cuneatis, crenatis incisis multifidisve. Pedicelli 1-3, unico nudo, cæteris involucellatis. Petala 5-10. Receptaculum globosum, demum elongatum, cylindraceum. Achæenia lanata, stylo laterali filiformi.
Rather a variable species and having a very extended range throughout the American continent. I have no hesitation in referring to it all the species quoted above. In North America it abounds from the Arctic circle to the Colombia river on the west coast, and New York on the east. The specimens, especially those from the Rocky Mountains and from Lake Huron, differ from those of the strait of Magalhaens only in having rather larger and more deeply coloured flowers. In South America this plant re-appears in Peru (Dornbey) and in Chili (Brotero) on the west side, and in South Brazil (Sellow) on the east, extending from each as far south as the Strait of Magalhaens. There are eight other South American species of Anemone described, which are—1. A. triternata, Vahl.; 2. A. hepaticifolia, Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1; 3. A. Jamesoni, Hook. l. c. t. 670; 4. A. æquinoctialis, Pœppig.; 5. A. Antucensis, Pœppig.; 6. A. Sellovii, Pritzil; 7. A. Helleborifolia, DC; 8. A. sphenophylla, Pœppig.; the last is pro-
