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Magell aeie: The latter enjoys a wide range, and appears subject to consider- 
able variation. I have obtained specimens ae ae aldonado, the Falkland 
Islands, d at Port : Gallant ,an e n m seen a DETER of what I 
believe to be the sa me plant. > Falkland "lande I saw no specimens 
with a caudex, but some of those P Pot Gallan iapa a d one ers dun 
feet high. Among the fungi that occurred to me of A 
(the common mushroom grows Sur ooi P in ped leslie on, T sides ban 
the Strait), Polyporus, Femela , Clavaria, Geas ete. ag 
e 
our return the 
try is, Roweren, splendi beyon nd ate a : 
gards plants I have al specially struck with the great variety and profusion 
of palms and ferns, and my attention was greatly arrested at first by the Ly- . 
P p ae other twining ferns, so different in habit from our British ferns. 
espite the eed 1 joies let about a great deal, and pats made one or two 
excursions to places at some distance. Soon after our arrival here, I made 
the acquaintance of a most kind and hospitable Scotchman, Dr. Gunning, 
whose name I have no doubt you are pees with, as an old Edin burgh man ; 
and I have made two visits to him at his house on qom Sierra de Mar, about 
fifty me from Rio, and saw some sein ndid illustrations ege irgin forest. 
ur this next season will be artly in the completion of the eastern por- 
tion of th Strait, icd. in the. survey of Smyth’s Channel; and we will winter 
next year at Valpa aiso or Concepcio 
2. Noti tice of Mus ana Bark (4 Albizzia anthelmintica) from Abyssinia, by 
Henry Hunter Ca hark British Vice-Consul, Alexandria. Mr. Calvert sent speci- 
mens of Mussana (or Mussenna) bark, sup Brongniart and some other 
tion in Ry and Sennaar rol being a specific a: na fangs, for rum pur- 
pose tw ny ounces pow wi ney. 
Calvert uaa that he was indebite for the e he sent to Dr. Abbate, 
sem ntleman who had travelled a great deal in Upper Egypt and Nubia, and to 
-R uillardot, who has done much towards the exploration of the Syrian 
E ‘Letter from Mr. Robert Brown, of the Greenland Scientific Expedition. 
E Me October 25th, 1867. 
* Dear Sadler,—I have made, in little more en two months, a collection of 
Greenland plants amounting to more than 5000 s pecimens, including a fine lot 
astronomieal rvations Se the latitude and longitude of the places we at 
en I Pa 7 that all this, with scarcely an eh gle was done by myself, 
besides doing a fair share "of the rest of the work of the «x gar Ped can 
bonn gu pa poe did not lie heavy on my hands, and that I will ned work 
enough this w 
Under the ar ‘of ‘Herbarium meist seltener u. kritischer Pflanzen Nord- 
und Mitteldeutschlands, Mr. C. Benitz, of Kenigsberg, Prussia, has issued 
