to rank as species, are, of necessity, obliterated. Closely 
allied as the present is to that which goes under the name 
of F. gracilis, (especially the 8. multiflora of Linpt., Bot. 
Reg. t. 1053) it will, nevertheless, I think, be found dis- 
tinct ; and possesses one strong claim to our attention, 
imasmuch as it is a native of the most southern portion of the 
world which has yet been visited by any Botanist, Port Fa- 
mine in the Strait of Magelhaens, whence seeds were pro- 
cured by Mr. Anperson, who accompanied Captain Kine in 
his late voyage, for the purpose of surveying the southern 
extremity of South America, Tierra del Fuego and the 
Strait of Magelhaens: This able officer has given us, in 
the Ist vol. of the Journal of the Royal Geographical 
Society, the following interesting account of the vegetation 
of that singular country, in which our Fuchsia is particu- 
larly alluded to. “ At Port Famine, and in its neighbour- 
hood, the Evergreen Beech (Facus betuloides) grows in 
the greatest abundance and reaches a very large size. 
Trees of this species, three feet in diameter, are abundant ; 
of four feet there are many ; and there is one tree (perhaps 
the very same noticed by Commodore Byron), which mea- 
sures seven feet in diameter for seventeen feet above the 
roots, and then divides into three large branches, each of 
which is three feet through. Besides this, there are but 
few other trees in the Strait that can be considered as 
timber: such an appellation only belongs to two other 
species of Beech and the Winter’s Bark. The last, which 
is also an evergreen, may be found, mixed with the first, in 
all parts of the Strait ; so that the country and hills, from 
the height of two thousand feet above the sea to the very 
verge of the high water mark, are covered with a perpetual 
verdure which is remarkably striking, particularly in those 
places where the glaciers descend into the sea; tlie sudden 
contrast, in such cases, presenting to the view a scene as 
agreeable as it seems to be anomalous. I have myself 
seen vegetation thriving most luxuriantly, and large woody- 
stemmed trees of Fucus1a and Veronica, in England con- 
sidered and treated as tender plants, in full flower, within 
a very short distance of the base of a mountain, covered 
for two-thirds down with snow, and with the temperature 
at 36°. The Fucusia, certainly, was rarely found but in 
sheltered spots; but not so the Veronica, for the beaches 
of the bays on the west side of St. John’s Island, at Port 
San Antonio, are lined with trees of the latter, growing 
even in the very wash of the sea. There is no part us the 
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