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In his introduction to Vol. II of Flora Antarctica Dr. Hooker says, 

 " The successive labors of Commerson, Banks and Solander, and of 

 Menzies, early called the attention of Botanists to the singular aspect of 

 the Fuegian Flora, apparently incompatible in its luxuriance with the 

 rigor of the climate. The subsequent exertions of Captain King and Mr. 

 Anderson, and of Darwin, during the voyages of Captain Fitzroy, of 

 d'Urville, and the officers of our own late Antarctic Expedition, have 

 nearly exhausted the phanerogamic productions." Dusen's remark on 

 this statement is that "it may have been justified regarding the Western 

 and Southern Vegetation of Fuegia, but not at all in regard to the 

 steppes." As to. other parts of the Patagonian Region, a great many new 

 species have been described since Hooker's work appeared ; and we con- 

 fess to our surprise in reaching a total of more than 2,100 species of 

 Phanerogams as already described from the mainland and adjoining 

 islands, south of the 39th parallel. 



Since and partly concurrently with the work of Hooker, the Chilian 

 botanists have extended their view to Patagonia, most of which is under 

 Chilian government. Carl Gay's large work on Chili devotes eight volumes 

 to its Botany (1845-53), with many descriptions of the Magellan plants. 

 The Philippi's, father and son, are the great authorities on the Chilian 

 plants since Gay's time ; and Carl Reiche is ably carrying on the succes- 

 sion in that part. In 1866-69, Robert O. Cunningham afterwards of 

 Belfast College, Ireland, went as naturalist on board a small English 

 Steamer, the Nassau, which was sent to survey the Strait of Magellan ; 

 the fruit of his work was a large collection of plants as well as animals, 

 and a book on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan, which is 

 full of life-sketches of the inhabitants, animal and vegetable, of those parts 

 and of their habits. The Argentine Government having control of North 

 Patagonia, on its eastern slope, sent an Exploring Expedition to Rio 

 Negro, under Captain Roca, the Botany of which was prepared for the 

 Report by Lorentz and Niederlein (1881). W. Lechler and the French- 

 men, Savatier, Hariot, and Hyades, the last in the Scientific Mission to 

 Cape Horn (1882-1883), made large contributions. Collections have 

 been made and a great many new forms described and published by C. 

 Spegazzini from different parts of the Region, including Fuegia. In 1896 

 N. Alboff visited the parts about Ushuaia, on the Beagle Channel, and 

 Staaten Island, and published his observations on the vegetation. The 



