146 MR. А. D. COTTON ON CRYPTOGAMS 
algæ obtained by Captain Abbott in 1859 mostly from Port Stanley. This 
officer, Mr. Vallentin informs me, was stationed for some years at Stanley in 
charge of a detachment of troops. He spent much time in the study of the 
fauna of the East Falklands, and was the author of several papers on the birds 
of the islands. His algal collection was named by Agardh, but no list was 
published. The ‘Nassau’ Hydrographic Expedition (1866-69) touched at 
the Falklands in 1867, and Cunningham, naturalist to the expedition, refers 
in his narrative to the flowering plants of the islands and also to “the 
gigantic seaweed Lessonia fuscescens” (T1, р. 156). He collected a few 
#10 and lichens, which are now at Kew, the latter being dealt with ina 
paper by Crombie (76). Naumann, who accompanied the German ‘ Gazelle’ 
Expedition (1874-76), also collected various cryptogams in the Magellan 
region, the determinations of which appear in the botanical reports of the 
voyage (Engler, ’89). The Falkland Islands were, however, not visited. 
The account of the ‘Challenger’s’ stay at the Falklands will be found 
in the ‘Narrative’ (vol. 1. part 2, рр. 883-901). The Kew herbarium 
shows that a few lichens and fungi were collected, though not apparently 
reported оп. 
Hariot's memoirs on the botanical collections of the French Mission to 
Cape Horn (1882-83), though not immediately concerned with the islands 
under notice, form a most useful and important contribution to опг know- 
ledge of the flora of the whole Cape Horn region. М. Hariot, who accom- 
panied the expedition, collected plants of all kinds, and himself published 
the account of the algæ and fungi (789), giving at the same time a chrono- 
logical summary of previous work for both these groups and also for the 
lichens. He incorporated in his own papers previous records, and includes 
the Falkland Islands in his distributional notes. The section on lichens by 
Müller Arg. (^89) is, on the other hand, confined to the material collected 
by the expedition. 
About this date several important cryptogamic papers appeared, which, 
though not dealing with the Falkland Islands themselves, should be con- 
sulted in any work connected with this geographical region. Of these, the 
lists by Nylander (88) and by Müller Arg. (89) of the Lichens of the 
Magellan neighbourhood should be mentioned, also Spegazzini’s lengthy 
paper on the Fungi of Fuegia (87), and Reinsch’s report (90) on the 
marine Algæ of South Georgia. Malme’s account of the Stictaceæ of 
Patagonia (99) is likewise worthy of attention. А paper by Svedelius (700) 
on the Chlorophyceæ of the Magellan Straits should also be noted, especially 
as his records are not included in Gain’s table of South-American alge 
C12, р. 117). 
Mr. Rupert Vallentin turned his attention to the Falkland Islands alge in 
1898, when he sent home a small collection from Port Stanley. This was 
named by Mrs. Gepp, and is to be found in the British Museum herbarium, 
