late scarioso-marginatis superiore latiore 3-nervi, flosculis basi remotiusculis, palea inferiore obscure puberula in aristam brevem producta, culmis gracillirnis folium Hneari-filifonne involution superantibus.
Hab. Strait of Magalliaens ; Port Famine, Capt. King.
Radix fibrosa, nunc repens? Culmi 3-pedale9, gracillimi, erecti, heves, nitidi. Folia 1-li-pedalia. Patnada sub 5-unc. longa, 6-8-fiora. Locusta -j ad |- pollicares. Glumes latiusculse, concavse, non carinata?, inferior 1-nervis, superior latior, 3-nervis. Palea lineares, inferior sirrsum puberula, arista breviuscula recta auctse ; superior fequilonga, bifida. — Species elongata, gracillima, priori simillima, sed elatior, foliis longioribus, locustis majoribus, glumis plurifloris latioribusque differt.
A very elegant species, allied to the former ; but, judging from my specimens, distinct, especially in the form of its glumes ; although in British examples of F. rubra that organ varies much in breadth and the locusta? in size.
9. Festuca hromoides, Linn., Sp. PI. 109. Engl. Bot. 1. 1412. D'Urville, in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 601.
Hab. Falkland Islands, found only near the settlement, D'Urville, J. B. H.
Apparently identical with the European plant, and most probably introduced.
10. Festuca Magellanica, Lamk., Illust. vol. i. p. 119. Encycl. vol. ii. p. 461. D'Urville, in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 601. Prong, in Duperrey, Toy. Pot. p. 38. Kvnth, En. Plant, vol. i. p. 396.
Var. 0. culmo elongato, foliis glaberrimis.
Hab. Strait of Magalliaens, Commerson ; Falkland Islands, on rocks near the sea, D' Urville, J. D. H.
Var. /3. Port Famine, Capt. King.
The var. 0., from Port Famine, is almost identical with Austrian specimens of F. pollens, Host., and it comes very near some British states of F. duriuscula, apparently differing chiefly by the membranous margins of the sheaths of the leaves. Falkland Island specimens vary considerably in stature and in the size of their locustae; the foliage is very rigid in all, though more or less pubescent in different specimens.
11. Festuca erecta, D'Urville, in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 601. Brongniart, in Duperrey Toy. Bot. p. 37. t. 7. Knnth, En. Plant, vol. i. p. 398.
Hab . Tierra del Fuego ; Hermite Island, J.D.H.; Falkland Islands, D'Urville, J.D.H.; Kerguelen's Land, P. M'Cormick; Esq.
Variable in the comparative length of the leaves and stem, as also in size, but otherwise a well-marked species.
14. DACTYLIS, L.
1. Dactylis caspitosa, Forst., in Comm. Goett. vol. is. p. 22. Willi. Sp. PI. vol. i. p. 407. Hook.fil. in Load. Journ. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 298. t. 9 and 1 0. Festuca csespitosa, Poem, el Sch. Syst. Veg. vol.ii. p. 732. Kunth, En. Plant, vol. i. p. 408. F. rlabellata, Land: Encycl. vol. ii. p. 462. Gawd, in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 100, et in Freyc. Foy. Bot. p. 409. D'Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 603. Brongniart in Duperrey Toy. Bot. p. 36. " Glayeux," Pernetty, Toy. vol. i. p. 343. (Tab. CXXXVL— CXXXVII.)
Hab. Strait of Magalliaens, Commerson; and throughout Fuegia; Staten Land, Forst er; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, J. D. H.; Falkland Islands, most abundant, Gaudiclmud, and all subsequent voyagers.
