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botanist landed on the little island, and found it a most 
singular spot. He gathered upon it what he calls the ghosts 
of 18 cryptogamic plants, but there appeared no trace of phe- 
nogamic vegetation; and except one or two of the Lichens, 
all the species were extremely scarce. Of Mosses he found 
four kinds, one coming into fruit; and eight Lichens; among 
them, a Parmelia, the rest being crustaceous, except a tre- 
melloid one; a green species of Protococcus, and Ulva crispa, 
apparently identical with the European species found in 
Ross's Islet, as stated in the list of Captain Parry's plants: 
thus, unless the Hed-snow, spoken of by Forster, should 
prove the real so named, plant of the Arctic regions, this 
Ulva crispa, with Desmarestia aculeata also gathered, are the 
only vegetable productions common to both extremities of 
our globe, and it would be interesting to ascertain what 
are the intermediate countries which they inhabit. Aspe- 
rococcus bullatus ?, or a very nearly allied species, iden- 
tical with what is found at Cape Horn, with the remains of 
an Zridea, (also a Falkland Island species, J. micans?) and 
an Oscillatoria, or Calothrix, complete the list. The Botanist 
says, that though his specimens, the best which circum- 
stances enabled him to procure, are but such poor scraps, 
that it was almost difficult to identify them, yet he felt it a great 
consolation, after so long a cruize, to gather any plants in 
regions far more southerly than vegetation had been sup- 
posed to inhabit. “I have prepared," he writes, “ draw- 
ings of all the plants, one is a very beautiful and scarce little — 
Lichen, a Parmalia of a golden yellow colour, with black 
scutella, which I should like to name after my kind godfather.* 
The White Petrel breeds in the cliffs, and there was a large 
colony of Cormorants and Penguins near the sea. I collected 
* Little aware that the decease of this estimable man, and elegant scho- 
lar, the Rev, Jas. Dalton, late Rector of Croft, in Yorkshire, like that 
of the venerable Menzie, had recently taken place. Mr. Dalton paid par- 
ticular attention to the Lichens, as well as to the Mosses, though he 
was well acquainted with phznogamic botany, and with the Carices in 
particular, í ; 
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