158 THE ATLANTIC. [chap. iii. 



bushes, and lays four to five eggs, very like those of the com- 

 mon canary. 



Beyond the garden the tussock-grass of the Tristan group, 

 which is /Spartina ariindinacea — not Dactylis ccBsj)itosa, the 

 well-known tnssock-grass of the Falklands — forms a dense jnn- 

 gle. The root-clumps, or " tussocks,'' are two or three feet in 



