The Flora Antarctica, or formally and correctly The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross,
Title page with an etching of Victoria Barrier with Mount Erebus and Mount Terror; one of the expedition's ships is shown temporarily trapped in sea ice.
The Ross expedition sailed with two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, depicted here in the Antarctic by James Wilson Carmichael, 1847.
The ships sailed through forests of Durvillea harveyi (now Durvillea antarctica)
The work's author, Joseph Dalton Hooker, c. 1852
Myosotis capitata is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the Campbell and Auckland Islands of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described the species in his 19th centur
Type specimen of Myosotis capitata collected at "Lord Auckland's group" (Auckland Islands) likely by Joseph Dalton Hooker during the Ross expedition.