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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Polypodium, (No. 50). Bpidendric ; the frond simple, six feet in length. 



(No. 61). Also, a third and several additional species. 



Adiantum (No. 27). 



Pteris (No. 43). Habit of P. aquilina, but very tall, twelve feet or more in height. 



(No. 44). In the marshes of the Bstrella estuary ?, besides other localities. 



(No. 45). With a fourth and other species, various in habit. 



Blechnum (No. 9). The fronds very large. 



(scandens. No. 10 ; see Voyage of the Coquille. t. 36). Climbing. 



Lomaria ? (No. 9). 



Vittaria (compare Polynesian species). 



Aspidium? (No. 32). 



Aneimia (No. 1). 



(No. 2) ; a second species. 



(No. 3 ) ; a third species. And perhaps a fourth. 



Osmunda regalis ? (compare No. 1 Italy, and the United States). In the Sphagnous bog 

 at the Eastern base of the Organ Mountains, on the Estrella road. 



Marchantia (No. 7) ; seeming a peculiar species. And perhaps others. 



Jungermannia (No. 29). Also, a second, and several other species. 



Sphagnum (No. 4 ; compare sp. of the United States). Occupying various distinctly 

 marked bogs, among the Organ Mountains. 



Musci incert. Mosses, of various genera, abundant. 



Lichenes. Species met with in the forest. 



Fungi. Perhaps rare. 



2. The Brazilian Mountain-Kegion. 



In ascending the mountain peak forming the Northeastern side of 

 the Estrella Gap, the acclivity soon became steep, and the woods, 

 under a clear sky, more dripping wet than I had elsewhere witnessed ; 

 owing in part, amid the shade, to the profusion of Bromelias storing 

 moisture in their sheathing leaves, and the springs everywhere gush- 

 ing forth. Dorstenias now made their appearance, and especially a 

 variety of Begonias and other ornamental plants, not previously met 

 with. After scaling several ledges that would have been inaccessible 

 but for the projecting shrubs and trees, I at length succeeded in reach- 

 ing the summit. This, though distinctly pointed, was covered with 

 trees ; all of them stunted and gnarled from mountain exposure, and 

 only thirty feet or so in height. On climbing one, to get a view of 

 the surrounding country, a range of higher summits was disclosed to 

 the Eastward ; and at the same time I obtained an exemplification 

 of the inexhaustibleness of the Brazilian flora : without even chang- 

 ing foothold in the tree-top, I gathered no less than six species of 



