The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage/Part I/Crassulaceae
XI. CRASSULACEÆ, DeC.
1. Bulliarda moschata, D'Urv., Fl. Ins. Mal. l.c. p. 618. Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 138. B. Magellanica, DeC. Bull. Philom. n. 49. Tillæa moschata, DeC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 382. Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 535. Crassula moschata, Forst. Act. Goett. ix. p. 26.
Hab. Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's Island; abundant on wet rocks immediately above high-water mark.
Petala patentia, obovato-cuneata, concava, albida, sæpe rubro-striata. Filamenta subulata, carnosa, siccitate compressa et ut videtur dilatata. Squamæ hypogynæ 4, carpellis oppositis et iis paulo breviores, cuneatæ. Carpella trigona, obovata, superne oblique truncata, dorso canaliculata: stylis brevibus, recurvis.
The geographical range of this species is wide, being found along the west coast of South America, from lat. 46° S. to Cape Horn, and also in the Falklands and Kerguelen's Land, but nowhere so abundantly as in this group. Notwithstanding the name given it by its discoverer, I was unable to detect any odour of musk or smell of any kind in the fresh plant.