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VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA 01' NEW GUINEA. 103
Dorset. In N.W. Germany I know a few scattered bnslics, wliicli
I supposed to be Ti. anjenteua AV. et N., and which resemble very
much the 11. eri/tlirinm. I believe there is no real ditferencc
between this species and U. anientens,
i'ont. distrib. France, ?N.W. Germany.
13. R. ARGENTATus P. J. Muell. 7.'. Tf7»^'/7 P. J. Muell. in
Focke Synops. Rub. Germ. p. 196. — Mr. Charles liailey has sent
me a few branches p'athered by him near Lyme Regis, Dorset,
which agree exactly with the German plant.
font. (Ustrib. W. Germany, France.
14. R. GRATUS Focke. — Flowers and fruits very largo ; pollengrains
nearly all regular ; sepals patent after flowering or embracing
the young fruit. The Rev. E. F. Linton has sent me dry specimens
of this species, collected in Surrey, Norfolk, and Derbyshire.
i'unt. distrib. Denmark, N.W. Germany, Belgium.
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VASCULAR CRYPTOGAMIA OF NEW GUINEA,
COLLECTED BY SIR W. MACGREGOR.
By J. G. Baker, F.R.S.
Baron von Mueller has sent to Kew a complete set of the
Vascular Cryptogamia collected by Sir W. Macgregor during his
recent adventurous expedition to the highbaids of New Guinea, and
asked me to report fully upon them. The botanical results of the
expedition are of great interest. For a full account of the flowering-plants
obtained, reference must be made to a paper entitled
" Records of Observations of Sir William MacGregor's Higlilaud
plants from New Guinea," read by Baron von Mueller, before the
Royal Society of Victoria, on the 12th of September, 18S9, and
now published in their recently-instituted quarto Transactions.
Out of GI flowering plants gathered in the mountain -zone, at
altitudes of between 8000 and 13,000 feet above sea-level, 38
species appear to be new and endemic. Two of these are new
genera, hrhvcd, allied to Xaudntlwct in Couipositse, and Dccaloni in
EpacridaceiE ; of tiie other enilemic species, 17 shew a northern
affinity. Anaongst these are a Hypericum, a Sagina, a Riihus, a
(ientian, four Vacciniunr-^ and fonr Rhododendrons. Eleven
species, including a Phyllochuliis, a Libocedrus, a Metrosidoros, an
Olearia, and two Vittadinias, are allied to upland Australian and
New Zealand tvpes. Fifteen species are conspecitic with wellknown
Australian and New Zetland plants, such as Mi/onotis
(iii.'itndis, Lilicitid /nilrliclhi, and Astflia (djii)ii(. There are four
Boruean plants, hitherto known only from Kina-bahi. Cosmopolitan
temperate types are represented in the collection by I'ln-tix-
uniin ni/iciittdi', Scirpits ctisiiilosits, Aira (urspitosd, and Fistiicn oriiut.
There is a Himalayan PotnitUla {lcncim to add, a-* I
have been asked about it several times, that " the Daisy " which