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Mysodendron pimcttilatum, a parasite allied to the mistletoe, 

 growing on the living branches of the evergreen beech. 



On the morning of December 2d, we left the Strait of Magel- 

 lan, and turning northward entered Smythe's Channel, which 

 skirts the western coast of Patagonia. " The vegetation of its 

 banks dififered scarcely at all from that which I have just described. 

 In addition, however, to the plants which I had collected I found 

 a handsome shrub, Desfontainea spinosa, with beautiful scarlet 

 tubular flowers lined with yellow and with glossy, prickly, holly- 

 like leaves. And I also collected here a conifer, which I neglected 

 to mention before, Libocedrus tetragona, belonging to the Cupres- 



smese. 



The Desfontainea belongs to the LoganiacccC, a family which, 

 together with the Proteaceae, the genera Libocedrus^ Araticana 

 and a few others, constitute the element in the South American 

 flora which allies it with that of Australia and New Zealand. 



In conclusion, I may mention that as in the Northern Hem- 

 isphere, many arctic plants reappear in the Alpine regions of Eu- 

 rope, Asia and America, so among the plants which I afterward 

 collected in the higher regions of the Andes of Peru there were 

 several which in the Strait of Magellan and on the shores of Terra 

 del Fuego grow at the level of the sea. 



As we advanced northward the channel would sometimes be 

 so dotted with islands that we would almost be bewildered, 

 scarcely knowing which was our path, which was island or which 

 was the shore of the mainland ; and then it would contract into 

 a straight, narrow " reach " down which w^e could see for miles, 

 the flanking mountains fading to a deep purple in the distance. 

 Thus we continued on our way, vista after vista opening before 

 us as we advanced, until reaching Trinidad Channel, when we 

 turned once more to the westward, and, leaving behind us the 



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the Pacific Ocean, 



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At Sea, making passage between Callao and Honolulu, Oct I0> 1887. 



Capsicum umbilicatum. 



Last season, in the garden of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, I grew from some Capsicum seed received 



