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THE 



mentioned nioily plant, a new niili (Juncus tnglumis) a fine 



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Amellus, a mofl beautiful fcarlet Che lone, and laftly, even 



ilirubby plants,, viz. 



a fcarlet flowered, ihrubby plant of a new 



genus, which we called Embotiirium coccinetm -, two new kinds 

 of berberis, (Berberis tiicifoUa & mltior ;) an arbutus with cuf- 



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pidated leaves (Arbutus mucronata) and laftly the tree bearing 



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the Winter's bark (Drimys 'winterij which however in thefe 



'cky barren par 



of T 



del Fueg 



exceeds the iize of 



a 



tolerable fhrubj whereas in Succefs Bay, on a gentle floping 



ground 



and deep foil it grows to the fize of the largeft 



•titiiber. The falling leaves, the rotting moiTy plants, and various 

 other circumflances increafe the mould and form a deeper foil. 



more and more capable of bearing larger pi 



Thus they all 



enlarge the vegetable fyftem and refcue new animated parts of 



I 



creation from their inadive, chaotic ftate. 



I cannot pafs over in filence the peculiar growth of one fpecle 



of 



h 



•afs on New Year's Ifl^, near Staten Land, and which we likewife 

 x^bferved at South-Georgia : it is the well-known DaBylts glomerafa, 

 or one of its varieties. This grafs is perennial, and bears the ri- 

 gours of the coldell winters : it grows always in tufts or bunches. 



fonie diftance from each 



Every year the fhoots form, as 



it were, a new head, and enlarge the growth of the bunch, till 

 iaft you fee thefe bunches of tlie height of four or five feet, and 



at 



the 



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