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matters which had been cut short in January, and in the afternoon 

 we transferred ourselves to Camp 7. On the next day the bag- 

 gage was despatched to Riobamba under the care of Louis ; whilst 

 I with Jean-Antoine and Campana resumed the measurement on 

 the High Road for ' a scale for Chimborazo ' ; carrying it up to the 

 Tambo of Chuquipoquio, and thus completing our work amongst 

 the Great Andes of the Equator. 



(14,000-15,000); and Vicia seiifolia, H.B.K., near Chuquipoquio (12,000-14,000). 

 Geraniaceae : — Geranium diffusum, H.B.K., Vallon de Carrel (16,000). Malvaceae : — 

 Malvastrum phyllanthos, Asa Gray, south side (14,000-16,500). Caryophyllaceae : — 

 Cerastium glutinosum, Kth., south and north-east sides (13,000-14,000) ; Cerastium 

 sp.? south side (13,000-14,000); Siellaria leptopeiala, Benth., near second camp 

 (15,500-16,000). Cruciferae : — Draba grayidiflora, Hook. & Am., fourth camp 

 (14,360); D. obovata, Benth., near second camp, etc. (15,500-16,660); Draba sp. l^ 

 south side (14,000-15,000) ; Draba sp. ? near second camp (15,500-16,000). Ranun- 

 culaceae : — Ranunculus Peruvianus, Pers., north side (13,000-14,000) ; R. 2>rcemorsus, 

 Kth., near second camp, etc. (15,500-16,500). 



Humboldt says in the pamphlet entitled Notice de deiix tentatives d^ascension 

 du Chimborazo, dated Berlin, Sept. 1836 (pub. at Paris in 1838), " Les derniers 

 vegdtaux cryptogames que je recueillis furent le lecidea atrovireyis {licheti geographi- 

 cus, Web.) et une nouvelle espece de gyrophora d'Acharius {gyrophora rugosa), a 

 peu pres a 2820 toises d'altitude. La derniere mousse, le grimmia longirostris 

 croissait a 400 toises plus bas." Reckoning the toise at 6-3945 English feet, it 

 appears that his highest Lichens came from 18,032, and the Moss from 15,475 feet. 



For the Zoological results, the reader is referred to the Supplementary Appendix. 

 The last thing obtained on Chimborazo (near Tortorillas) was the Rylodes with which 

 my name is associated. This was another of the species that recurred at similar 

 altitudes. It had previously been captured upon Pichincha, Cotocachi, and Altar. 



