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27th, aud found things in general looking very much as when 

 we left them, heavy rain falling, and the tops of the mountains 

 shrouded in mist. That evening wc anchored in a small cove 

 which bears the name of one of the surveyors, and there we re- 

 mained all the next day, as it rained hard, with the addition of 

 furious squalls, which made us feel thankful that we were comfort- 

 ably at anchor. On the 29th we weighed in the morning and 

 passed southwards as far as Gray Harbour, a little to the north 

 of the English Narrows. There we remained for a day to com- 

 plete the survey of the harbour; and, as usual, I explored the 

 neighbourhood with my friend Dr. Campbell and some of the 

 other oflScers. We got beautiful specimens of Escallonia serrata 

 in flower, as well as excellent specimens of Finguicula antarctica, 

 and that curious dwarf Conifer the Lepidothamnium, which I 

 first found at Eden Harbour last year, and which ranges through- 

 out the greater portion of the Channels without, so far as I have 

 yet seen, reaching the Strait of Magellan. We also obtained 

 numerous specimens of a species o'f Lymncea^ which was living in 

 company with Balani in brackish water. The shells varied much 

 in form, the apices of some being much eroded. 



Erom G-ray Harbour we went to Port Grappler; and the 

 night we got there a beautiful fish, resembling a Callionymus in 

 its general form, was taken on a line by one of the ship's com- 

 pany, and, as is usually the case with anything curious, pre- 

 sented to me. Next day a party of us went up to the head of 

 the harbour ; and there I made what I hope is rather an im- 

 portant discovery. When walking over a patch of open marshy 

 ground, my attention was arrested by the small leaves of a creeping 

 plant which I had never seen before ; and it immediately occurred^ 

 to me that this was probably King's Port-Famine plant, of which 

 you sent me a scrap about eighteen months ago. After a care- 

 ful search of the ground on my hands and knees, I found first last 

 year's fruit, then flower-buds, and then flowers in abundance. I 

 have carefully compared my specimens with your fragment, aud 

 feel little doubt that the two plants are the same. The leaves 

 of both agree in general arrangement and form, and are both mi- 

 nutely denticulated at the top. My plant grows with the habit 

 and exactly in the same situation where you thought it might be 

 found, f. e. creeping, like an IJpilobium, on marshy ground. I 

 made careful sketches of the flower at the time, which I send you, 

 as well as a fragment of the plant, which I hope will supply the 



