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observed at Port Otway, Hoskyn Cove, Halt Bay, and Eden 

 Harbour, in flower. '^ "We first noticed some fallen blossoms 

 on the ground, and soon after, looking up through the 

 branches of a Podocarpus, observed the plant, with two 

 clusters of flowers, and numerous old capsules from which 

 the seeds had escaped. My companion benevolently climbed 

 the tree for these, and, on going a few steps farther, we 

 came upon the white skeleton of a dead tree, round which 

 a specimen had twined itself — clusters of the beautiful 

 rose-coloured flowers hanging down from the branches. 

 This fine plant I subsequently ascertained to be the Camp- 

 sidium CMlense, previously recorded from Valdivia, Chiloe, 

 and the island of Huafo, between Chiloe and the Guay- 

 tecas Islands ; and its occurrence more than five degrees 

 farther south* than the last-named locality is, I think, of 

 considerable interest. Its flowers, when in the fresh state, 

 are never orange (as stated by Dr. Seemanni"), according 

 to my observations, but invariably of a fine rose-colour. 

 Six months later I observed the plant at Port Laguna, to 

 the north of the Darwin Channel, in the Chonos Archi- 

 pelago. It is apparently an evergreen, and the leaves are 

 impari-pinnate, there being from four to six pairs of lateral 

 pinnae. 



This day I also found, growing on an evergreen beech, 

 a fungus that was new to me, and which bore a very close 

 resemblance to, if indeed it were not identical with, the 

 Bulgaria inqidnans of Great Britain. 



On the 13th we left Island Harbour, and passed slowly 

 northwards through the Messier Channel, looking for har- 

 bours on the way, and emerging into the Gulf of Penas in 



* Eden Harbour, lat. 49° 10' S. 

 t Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. Ser. iii. No. 55. 



