TWO SCIENTIFIC BOTANICAL NOTICES, 
BY THE LATE 
DR. HENRY MERTENS, 
NATURALIST ON BOARD THE SINIAVIN, CAPT. V. LUTKENS, BOUND ON A RUSSIAN 
VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY ; 
WRITTEN AT KAMTSCHATCHA, IN OCTOBER 1827: 
THE FIRST CONTAINING 
AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS SPECIES OF FUCI; 
THE SECOND DETAILING 
AN EXCURSION TO THE TOP OF THE WERSTOVOI, 
AT NEW ARCHANGEL, IN NORFOLK SOUND. 
[Extracted from the ** Linnea,” a Botanical Journal, conducted by D. F. L. Von Schlechtendat. 
Fol. IV. January 1829.} 
* WE met with Fucus pyriferus, for the first time, near Falk- 
land Islands: it thence was seen in greater abundance as we 
approached the stormy latitudes of Cape Horn, diminish- 
ing, however, in frequency with the increased distance from 
land, and occurring in the greatest plenty as we steered along 
the coast of Chili. "The waves of the sea carried it past our 
vessel in large masses, like floating islands, which were 
sometimes even covered with aquatic birds. At the Bay of 
Conception, this plant encumbered the shores, becoming 
rarer about Valparaiso, and I think to have seen it for the 
last time when we left this coast, which is very poor in 
marine productions. Knowing that the Fucus pyriferus is 
mentioned by authors as a native only of the Southern 
Hemisphere, I was surprised to meet with it again on the 
North-west Coast of America.* The whole of Norfolk 
Sound is filled with it, and it grows upon all the islands ; 
* I have myself found this Fucus among marine rejectamenta in the Bay of 
St. Francisco, New California, situated in 37° 48/ N. latitude. (Chamisso. ) 
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