326 NOTES ON THE BOTANY 
wind. The whole time occupied in the last cruize, was 
spent in such tempestuous latitudes, and among such 
icy seas, that nothing new in the way of Natural History 
could be discovered; and accordingly, our young natu- 
turalist, who declares that mental occupation afforded him the 
sole relief from the anxieties and ennui incident on the 
voyage, had devoted himself to examining, and making 
finished drawings of many of the plants found at former times. 
The Mosses, which were collected in the far southern regions, 
particularly engrossed his attention; and taking the learned Mr. 
Brown’s Appendix to Ross and Parry’s First Voyages as a 
model, he made full descriptions of them all. He 
says, “The genus Andrea puzzled me exceedingly and 
occupied many days, during which I examined several hun- 
dred specimens. I do hope my drawings are scrupulously 
accurate, for I invariably compared them with descriptions 
made on the spot at the time of gathering the specimens, and 
I consider the mosses to have generally received three different 
examinations. Where there is so much novelty, I may have oc- 
casionally erected varieties into species; but in such a novel 
field, I trust some allowance will be made for any errors. All 
the Gymnostoma of the South are funarioid in habit and alliance, 
as Brown first remarked of the Gymnostomum fasciculare, &c. Y 
have placed them, accordingly, at the end of Brya. The general 
arrangement I have adopted is that of Arnott, as modified by 
my father, (Sir W. Hooker), in Lindleys work on the 
Natural Orders. There are hardly any novel genera, my main 
object being rather to place the plants in their true position 
and relation, than to give them new names, and then leave 
other botanists to squeeze them in wherever a place can be 
found among their congeners. There exist many beautiful 
analogies among the groups of Mosses, but it is difficult to 
characterize the genera properly. Gymnostomum must be 
split ; for there is hardly a genus of Acrocarpi, to which each 
of the species does not bear more affinity than to its con- 
geners, in the present arrangement. 
“The other drawings I have made will be found mere 
