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circumstance is perhaps attributable to the proximity of the 
island, through the medium of Tierra del Fuego, to the south- 
ern extremity of the continent of America, which abounds in 
forests, the seeds from which may have been carried by 
birds, or wafted by winds and waters. The particulars of 
the peculiar productions of this country have not yet been 
transmitted ; for the latest accounts were written soon after 
the return of the “ Erebus and Terror” to the Falklands, on 
the 13th of November, and the time destined to examining 
and determining the specimens was during the ensuing third 
voyage to the ice; but the following hasty list of the pheeno- 
gamous plants, gathered during their brief stay, has been 
communicated. 
* 1, Misodendřon punctulatum, Banks; but the character of the 
fructification is at variance with that of Póppig in Endlicher's 
Genera. 2. A most curious little saxifrageous-looking plant 
and with the habit of S. bryoides; the leaves are singularly 
bicuspidate, the fruit is superior, 2-celled and has two styles; 
yet it does not look like the capsule of a Saxifrage. 3. Sta- 
tice, on the hills, where the snow has just left the ground. 
4. Scleranthea ? probably a Mniarum. 5. Pernettia, which 
ascends to the tops of the hills, 1750 feet. 7. Something 
quite new to me, not found in flower, but it has since shown 
blossoms in the Ward's case,—not yet examined, 8. Azorella. 
9. Composita ? 10. Abrotanella. 11. Azorella lycopodioides. 
12. Festuca. 13. Empetrum rubrum. 14, Carex, very small. 
15. Caltha, or an allied genus, near C. appendiculata; the 
leaves 2-lobed, lobes incurved and conduplicate, and fringed 
at the margin, reminding me of the leaves of Dionea ;* there 
um In my Herbarium are specimens of this plant from Forster's Collec- 
tion, given me under the name of ** Ozalis Magellanica," Forst. lmper- 
fect as is the description of O. Magellanica, it is quite impossible it can 
apply to this plant, which belongs to the same group of Caltha as C. appen- 
diculata and sagittata, so far as the appendages to the leaves are concerned ; 
but these leaves are, otherwise, highly curious. The plant appears to 
grow in dense tufts, 2-3 inches high, thickly clothed with leaves and 
sheathed by the exceedingly large membranaceous stipules, two or three 
