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in the Strait, and lower down on the liill the pretty little 

 Buhus (Daliharda) geoides was plentiful. This plant, one of 

 the few South American species of its genus, the Falkland 

 Island strawberry of the colonists, has long slender trailing 

 stems, with small shining green leaves, and white or pale 

 pink flowers, succeeded by deep red fruits about the size of a 

 large raspberry, and possessed of a very pleasant flavour. In 

 addition to the Falkland Islands, it is plentiful throughout 

 the damp region of the Strait, and along the west coast of 

 Patagonia. Chiloe was the northernmost locality where I 

 observed it, but possibly it may range as far as Valdivia. 



On the 24th I had a long walk to a bay beyond the 

 harbour visited by me on the previous year. I again found 

 many great branches of Lessonia, clothed with lesser Algse, 

 lying about, and the tide having fallen considerably I 

 observed numerous fine specimens of another large sea-weed, 

 the D'Urvillcea Harveyi, growing in forests on the rocks. 

 The strong cylindrical stem in most cases presented the 

 appearance of being sunk in a kind of socket in the great 

 solid sucker-like root. The fronds, unlike those of D. utilis, 

 which also occurred, but more sparingly, did not present a 

 honeycombed arrangement of cells. 



Having filled up with coal and provisions, we left Stanley 

 Harbour on the morning of the 28th, and as, in consequence 

 of an arrangement entered into with the Admiral on board 

 the *' Narcissus," it had been settled that we should leave a 

 party from that ship in Falkland Sound, between the East 

 and West Islands, to recover a cargo of copper from a wreck, 

 we steamed for the northern entrance of the Sound, carrying 

 with us a large deck-cargo, composed of boats and other gear 

 belonging to the wreck party. The day was at first misty and 

 drizzling, but gradually improved, and the afternoon and 



