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MR. HESKETH PRICHARD’S PATAGONIAN PLANTS. 
By A. B. Renntz, M.A., D.Sc. 
(Puate 465.) 
Tue following is a detailed account of the plants collected in 
Patagonia by Mr. Hesketh Prichard, and presented by him to the 
. 
Britten and myself) forms Appendix C of Through the Heart of 
Patagonia, published at the end of 1902, in which Mr. Prichard 
gives an account = his oe to the mountain forests of 
Western Patagonia in search of the odon 
The plants were adlis cted at the weeioen end of Lake Argentino, 
where the lake is broken into numerous fiords by the forest-clad 
foot-hills of the Andes. The Burmeister Peninsula on which most 
of the plants were gathered is formed by one such narrow recurving 
arm at the extreme south-west of the lake. Mt. Buenos Aires, the 
highest portion of ne penin pea bogs a pind of 4725 ft.; Mt. 
Frias lies on the east of the peninsula. Lake Arg onan lies about 
650 ft. above sea- Biel a little + the south of 50° S. lat tude, and is 
Atlantic. A large scale map of the lake and surrounding country 
will found in Mr. Prichard’s book. 
will be seen from the localities cited, the plants represent in 
tks a pampas flora, in part the flora of the open mountain slopes, 
and in part the mountain forest flora. Mr. Prichard makes several 
references to the dense primeval forests, but was unable to explore 
r are, ays, 
‘“many a of square miles of unexplored forest i in Patagonia. 
pea afar the forests a appear to rim the slopes of spurs o 
lays hold upon your mind. Upon still nearer inspection you find 
the trees ranked in heavy phalanxes, while between their close-set 
truvks has grown up an undertangle of thorn. .... Most common 
of the trees was the antarctic beech.” ‘‘ The aspects of the various 
forests and the trees of which they were composed varied greatly, 
Some were bare and devoid of undergrowth as a northern forest; 
others were absolutely tropical in their heavy luxuriance. . In one, 
a majestic place, the tall antarctic beeches were draped with long 
trailing Spanish moss,” presumably the parasitic loranth, Myzo- 
dendron. * Few places are more mournful than this region when 
Journat or Borany.—Vor. 42. [Nov. 1904.] Z 
