208 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
115, 117. They include flowering-plants, ferns, mosses, lichens, 
and sea-weeds; the mosses and lichens are referred to by Sloane 
in Nat. Hist. Jamaica, i. 65. 
e plants are on the whole in good condition. Many are 
localized, though not always correctly ; the localities embrace 
Tierra del Fuego, Port Falkland, Elizabeth Island, Hawkins 
Island, Port Famine, Batchelor’s River, Cape Quad, and Port Gee; 
also Juan Fernandez and the Island of “Mucho” (? Mocha). 
There are also specimens from New England, Hispaniola, and 
Barbadoes. 
This appears to be the earliest collection of plants from the 
Magellanic region; it contains such characteristic species as 
e 
specimens of Drimys Winteri Forst. (ff. 100, 130, 148) are referred 
to in Fothergill’s “ Account of Cortex Winteranus,” published in 
Medical Observations, v. 45 (1779); one of them (on f. 100) is the 
original of the plate in Phil. Trans. (1693), where Sloane gives an 
interesting account of the plant, drawn up largely from Handisyd’s 
observations. 
The cryptogams have been named by Mr. Gepp. 
acomitrium lanuginosum Brid. “This and the following 
mosses were gathered by Mr. Handisyd on the terra del Fuego 
ad many white haires w™ made it look extremely pretty,” f. 3. 
Cladonia rangiferina Hoffm. « Brought from the Magellanic 
f. 4 
arboreus cum orb. C. B. & in some places were small white heads 
& on the tops those heads were of a scarlett colour.” “Tt was 
brought from the trees in the streights of Magellan & given me 
i f. 5. 
Sticta pulmonaria Ach. “This was brought from the streights 
of Magellan by Mr. Handisyd. I have seen it w* the muscus 
