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coccineum, Geum Magellanicum, and a variety of other plants. Shortly after 
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without number, I was very much confined on board. ‘Towards the end of 
ecember, we visited the Gallegos River, about thirty miles to the north of 
Cape Virgins, i in search of a deposit of fossil bones of mammalia, but were un- 
sian in great luxuriance, and found the ripe fruit of Rubus pude We 
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channels leading northwards from it to the Gulf of Penas. We halted at various 
places on our way, and I made use of all the opportunities that came of going 
ashore and hunting for specimens. At Playa Parda Core, in the western part 
Metrosideros stipularis, and which qum not seem to have been previously met 
with to the north of the Chonos Archipelago. It is, however, abundant in the 
channels, and constitutes a well-marked feature in the vegetation, frequently 
forming a distinct belt where the precipitous land dips into the water. 
Poll Bay, emis: we spent two or three days, I found Gaultheria antarctica, 
generally growing along with Myrtus Nummularia, and easily mistaken for it 
at first sight, and Tetroncium ian Here, as in most places in the 
channels where there was any open ground, « solid was formed of plants 
of posture vage and Caltha um and a species of Prestonia 
was sind espe he shallow pools of freshwater. At Eden Harbour, in the 
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cds a curious little dwarf conifer, which also occurs on the mountains of Val. 
