THE FIRST FUEGIAN COLLECTION 209 
Cladonia sylvatica Wallr. “This =e from y°® Magellan 
streights,”’ f. 7 
lentum obtusatum Forst. “This. plant Lonchitis was ab‘ 
10 inches long & had a cornered stalk, which h pair of pinnze 
situated opposite to one another, they were of a very green colour 
oblong-roundish ab‘ one inch in length & 4 as broad, semicircular 
towards th er edge & having a sinus on y® under side tow® 
pinne towards the edges.’ ‘It grew in the Island of Mucho not 
far from the Sime aa of Chili & was thence brought me by Mr. 
Handisyd,” 
er ehilense Kaulf. ‘This rises to about 7 or 8 inches 
the backs of th te) made up of many long fibrills 
drawing their nourishment from the earth. be 
ferrugineous hair.” ‘It grew in the Island of Juan Fernandez in 
ea whence it was brought and given me by Mr. George 
Handisyd, ore. 
Asplenium magellanicum Kaulf. “It grew in the Island of 
Juan Fernandez in y* 8. Seas from whence it was brought & given 
me by Mr. George Handisyd,” ff. 19, 20, 125.6, 7, 
Hymenophyllum subtilissimum Kunze. “This & the pre- 
ceeding are imperfect specimens gathered on terra del fuego 
side of the streights of Magellan by Mr. Handisyd & given me,” 
£91. 
H. tortwosum Hook. & Grev. “ Precedentis varietas,” f. 22. 
Calystegia Soldanella R. Br. ‘ From Magellan streights,” 
ff. 27, 1382, 1. This plant does not _ to have been reporte 
from the Magellanic region. The most southerly specimen in 
Herb. Mus. Brit. is one collected by the writer at the mouth of 
the Rio Imperial, about 1000 miles further north. It is not 
recorded by Johow in his Flora de las Islas de Juan Fernandez. 
Perhaps Handisyd got it in the Island of Mocha. 
Caltha appendiculata Pers. ‘This came from Batchelors 
river in the Mag. str.,” ff. 29, 127.3. 
Solanum tuberosum L. * Gentianella rence multiflora ? 
e Freto Magellanico,” f. 30. This and the fragment on f. 60 ar 
of _ rere as early specimens ‘or the wild pethhe, but there 
appears to be no other record of the plant being found south of 
the Shanes Archipelago, where Darwin collected it. It is ogi 
on the banks of “‘esteros,” about 38°° § lat., and may, therefore, 
have come from si n Fernandez or Mocha. “At Port Falk- 
land in Magell. str. Boluzans vulgare?” f. 60. This is part 
