310 NOTES ON THE BOTANY 
The boxes encountered a most stormy passage, but it is 
with infinite pleasure I can state that several of the most 
interesting among the plants have arrived in good condition, 
and bid fair to prove great acquisitions to our Gardens, and 
I trust I may say to our Forest Scenery; for among those 
that have reached their destination in the best state, are 
healthy young trees of the beautiful Evergreen Beech (Fagus 
Forsteri), the Deciduous Beech (Fagus Antarctica), and the 
Winter’s Bark (Drimys Winteri). So far as I know, the two 
first of these have never been introduced alive to this coun- 
try, before; while the latter is so rare that, I believe, pre- 
vious to the present importation, the only plant of Winters 
Bark that existed in Europe, is the fine specimen, 12-14 feet 
high, in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. Now, all these 
and several herbaceous plants in the Collections, such as the 
Gunnera Falklandica, Caltha appendiculata, Berberis ilicifolia 
with its fine holly-like leaves, as the name imparts, and with 
flowers larger than those of any known species of the Genus, 
Pernettia, Lomaria Magellanica, Asplenium Magellanicum, &c. 
promise to do well. Many other plants had been placed in 
the Cases, but did not survive the voyage: as young plants 
of the Tussack, a great number of the fine Mosses and Jun- 
germannie of Tierra del Fuego, especially the noble Polytri- 
chum dendroideum ; these all perished. Already the dupli- 
cate living specimens are dispersed, far and wide, among the . 
many friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, and every exer- 
tion will be used by the recipients, and by ourselves; to 
increase the stock of these interesting strangers. It is to be 
lamented that the season of the year (winter) did not allow 
of perfect seeds of the Tussack being sent; but the Governor; 
in his letter to Lord Stanley, has promised to collect and 
forward ripe seeds, and has suggested that the Grass is 
worthy of trial, not only on the coast, but even in an inland 
situation, such as Chat-Moss; and the success, which has 
attended the germination of the seeds in Governor Moody's 
garden in the Falkland Islands, is certainly encouraging. 
Although, as already noticed, our letters from the officers 
ofthe expedition bear date only to Nov. 30th 1842, we have re- 
