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while that of west vise in rain and snow. Another deeem of the 
former consists in the great = and rapidity, and the p = fall, 
of me ties, two en sees which were greatly in ou vits in o work, 
so the ci me y strong gales, which arose in the most renis 
manner d lasted for day d days at a time, making a heavy demand on 
our patience, as we were plese y kept a week or ten days on board owing 
to the fanom tok of dispatehing boats on surveying work. I use 
quently to accom -— aptain Mayne and the surveying officers on their ex- 
itions, and know no nter of life m t for 
peditions, — iie than camping for a few 
t M re is certainly a most l charm in landing 
spots for the first tim mds ad light sense of freedom and also of uncer- 
to o enco eed scarcely say that I made 
use of every opportunity in m naia and collect specimens of the 
y pow 
plants and animals of all the "alte * visited by us, and in consequencë ob- 
tained a tolerable collection of the fauna and flora of the Strait. In making 
the latter I was reco — + the * Flora Antarctica’ supplied to me at 
my request by cum An 
: “Some of the - planis were identical with old friends at home. Many 
of them were es ies new me, and a considerable number belonged to 
genera which I fad n never a Ts previo us opportunity of examining. As examples 
€ Vaga Verse ts that I with in the Strait, I may instance Sisymbrium 
Vies astium arret ie ium egi oo Armeria maritima, Galium 
vi imula j 
e araxacum Den 
Mapili, Hippuris vulgaris, Cys stopteris fragilis, on aa chium Lunaria 
Most of these plants occur , Api eolens very co- 
piously indeed. Hippuris yon I have only bianca es one locality as 
yet, viz. a small stream running into Oazy Harbour on the Pata. agonian side of 
the Strait. I believe the only ws recorded — i the sem it is Port 
Famine, where Captain King procured it. opteris fragilis is common in 
arts of the woods. Bo otrychium um Lunaria, hier Hooker ccrte on the 
th o I found th 
Several of the Aa are also, I e identical with British Loro: us, 
Codium tomentosum is common. ave found this 4/ga also Apres dance in 
ks egiie e Rio de Janeiro e of the plants . the Str - kon inter- 
,l may mention pisse plantaginea and C. nana, Bolag 
porrie the pm odendrons, which are so a phe ou ‘the Pagi “Calonarchis 
Lessonii, Chlorea Magellanica, Embothrium coccineu gee ie uim filiform 
yrt ees Fuchsia coccinea,* Cailixine margina 2, Pha basi 
€, 
t. Iobtained s 
mularia, also at the Maree eue whose fanna and flora are very much 
the same as pesar d bacs Stra One thing, C struck me, and that was, 
hich Ts saw at the Falklands I found in the damp woody 
"peer of the St Strait, 1 not in the eastern district, whist is so much more allied 
to the Falklands in its general characters. In addition to Cys topteris fragilis 
and puis eine; I obtained specimens of seven other species of — 
—to wit, two species of Hymenophyllum, Aspidium mohrioides, Aspleni 
Poser ac a  Gleicheni ia (I believe G. acutifolia), ps alpina, and wi 
* F. Magellanica, as Dr. Hooker has just shown.—Ep. 
