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Botanizing in the Strait of IVIagellan— 11. 



By W. E. Safford, U. S. Navy. 



(Continued from page 20,)* 



The treeless pampa-Iike scenery continued until we reached 

 Cape Negro, about one hundred miles from the entrance to the 

 strait. There it changed abruptly, trees began to make their 

 appearance, and the country became mountainous. As we 

 passed along, the channel would at times become contracted into 

 j a narrow strait, through which the tide ran with great force, and 



i then it would widen out into a broad lake-like expanse, the 



Fuegian shore becoming faint and hazy in the distance. Shortly 

 after reaching Sandy Point we experienced a heavy fall of hail 

 and snow; but it melted almost immediately, and in going 

 ashore we found several of the houses in the settlement sur- 

 rounded by bright beds of pansies and daisies, which seemed to 





have suffered in no way from the inclement weather. Some of 

 these beds were bordered by an edging of sea-thrift, and I 

 I noticed in the gardens many other plants indigenous to the 



region: Calceolarias, the lily-like Syntphyostemon^ yellow violets, 

 currants and Fuchsias growing over trellises, and the same 

 shrubby composite {^Chilobothrium amelloides) that I had col- 

 lected at Gregory Bay. In the kitchen gardens were patches of 

 lettuce, radishes, cabbages and onions. Potatoes are also raised, 

 but on account of the dampness of the climate the cultivation of 

 cereals is not practicable.. 



In the vicinity of th^, ::.ettlement I found, \x\ addition to nearly 

 ^ ti^,^^ plants occurring at Gregory Bay, a second specirs of 

 Berberis, a currant, two species of beech, the Winter's bark, a 

 Fuchsia, a handsome Ranunculus, and several other plants. The 

 little Calceolaria nana was here replaced by a taller species, also 

 herbaceous and acaulescent, Calceolaria plantaginea, with several 

 pure yellow flowers, smaller than in that species, borne on a com- 

 mon peduncle, about a foot high, and with leaves somewhat like 

 those of the common plantain. The barbery {B. empetrifolia) 

 grew in the form of a trailing under-shrub, with narrow fascicled 



* P- 15, line 15, for 32° read 520. This error should be rectified in the first part 

 of Mr. Safford's paper. 



