BOTANY OF THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE, 247 
Notes on the Botany of H. M. Discovery Ships, Erebus and 
Terror in the Antarctic Voyage ; with some account of the 
Tussac Grass of the Falkland Islands, by W. J. H. 
(Two Plates.) 
Since the days of the illustrious Cook, and of the distin- 
guished men who accompanied that expedition, perhaps no 
voyage, undertaken for the purpose of scientific research, has 
ever excited so deep an interest in the public mind, or pro- 
mised to yield such important results to navigation, and in 
the boundless fields of philosophical inquiry, as that of 
Captain James Clark Ross, in the South Polar regions, in 
H.M.S. “ Erepus and Terror.” The nature of the service 
renders it imperative that the main body of the information 
collected, and discoveries brought to light during this pro- 
tracted voyage, should not be generally divulged till the 
return of the expedition; but through the medium of the 
Admiralty, the Royal Society, and the Royal Geographical 
Society, and the British Association for the Advancement of 
E Science, and I may add of the daily Journals, several deeply 
= _ branch of science by the naturalists of this voyage. —— 
interesting announcements have been already laid before the | 
public, and it is now my agreeable task, with the sanction of — 
the Admiralty, to make known to the botanical world apaa 
of the more important services rendered to that particular ~ 
What, it may be asked, can be expected in the way of 
Botany, in those dreary regions of the extreme south, where 
the rigour of the climate and the striking diminution of vege- 
~ 'ation, in latitudes corresponding with those of the northern 
hemisphere, where vegetation is still copious, appear to 
< Offer an effectual barrier to the very existence of plants ? 
. Vegetable life is scanty, it is true, and the gallant commander 
of this expedition has pushed his researches into latitudes 
_ Where every kind, even of aquatic vegetation, has coss 
to exist, which is not the case in the north. There, far as 
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