92 POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



of the Pacific, and over whose entire surface it is spread, 

 reaching Kamtschatka, New California, and the Aleutian 

 Islands ; so that in the longitude of Western America, the 

 Macrocystis ranges from the Arctic to the Antarctic Circle. 

 The eastern branch of the Cape Horn current passes between 

 the Falkland Islands and Fuegia, conveying vast masses of 

 this seaweed two hundred miles north of the Falklands, as 

 low as the 44th degree, and some even reaching the Plate 

 River in 35, its northern limit in the Western Atlantic." 



Many speculations are entered into in the 'Mora Ant- 

 arctica' as to the probable northern limits of the Macro- 

 cystis in other seas ; but it is time to remember that we too, 

 in following its course, have been carried by the current 

 very far from the Colder Temperate Zone, where we first 

 made acquaintance with it : we must therefore leave those 

 who wish to pursue the subject further, to study the details 

 of it in the above-named work. 



