534 MUSCI ANTARCTICI. 
a richer harvest, especially of Mosses and Jungermannie, than 
any other part of the world. Before leaving England, when 
paying my farewell visit to that lamented and then venerable 
naturalist, he particularly advised me, should our expedition 
touch at his favourite botanical ground, Dusky Bay, New Zea- 
land, or any adjacent port, that I should diligently search for 
such plants, and requested me to send him at once a few spe- 
cimens, adding that no collector had visited that spot since 
himself, then nearly half a century ago, and that if I did not 
re-discover some of his favourites, he was too near his nine- 
tieth year to expect to receive them from any one else. Un- 
fortuately, it was out of our Commander's power to visit 
Dusky Bay; but during the stay of our ships at Lord Auck- 
land's Islands, four degrees farther south, and in the Bay of 
Islands, ten degrees to the northward of where Mr. Menzies 
had collected, most of his species were found. A few speci- 
mens were sent at different times, in the hopes that the 
admirable health in which I had left him might have been con- 
tinued, through Providence, until those of Hypnum Menziesi 
amongst others, should have reached him. It was, however, 
ordered otherwise; and the, to me, peculiarly melancholy 
account of his decease found our expedition at the Falk- 
land Islands, on our return from Tierra del Fuego, where I 
had been again endeavouring, “ longo post intervallo," to fol- 
low his footsteps. 
Some idea may be formed of the amount of Cryptogamia 
with which these regions teem, from the Monograph of some 
of my Jungermannie, already printed in this work. I am 
indebted to the great experience of Dr. Taylor for the dis- 
crimination of several of the species therein described which 
had escaped my observation, the amount of which, I must 
confess, far exceeded my first caleulations. Again, those 
who know the difficulty of monographing collections made 
in a short space of time, in the present instance during 
three weeks only in Lord Auckland’s group, where 
seventy-two species were collected, will understand how very 
careful an examination it requires to distinguish what really 
