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Nov. gen. Filic, (No. 1). Like tufts of young gra.ss growing on trunks of trees; fronds 

 two to three inches long, linear; fruct. all along the midrib. Savaii, and elsewhere. 



Nov. gen. Filic. (dimorphous, No. 1). The barren fronds simple, ovate-lanceolate ; the 

 fertile fronds pinnately sinuato-dentate. Creeping on trunks of trees on Tutuila. 



(Gen. Cryptog. incert., No. 1. Long, black, hair-like stems, like those afterwards met 

 with in the Feejeean forest, " were seen on the Samoan Islands" by Mr. Rich). 



Jungermania (No. 2). 



Hypnum (compare No. 1 Taheiti) ; plumose. Creeping on trunks of trees, Tutuila. 



; apparently, bis (No. 2) Tiliandsia-like of Taheiti. llambling among the under- 

 growth in the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 



Gen. Muse, with large capsule ; apparently, bis (No. 1) Taheiti. In the deep forest of 

 Interior Savaii. 



Dicranum (No. 1); large, dendroid, or having the form of a miniature tree. Savaii. 



Parmelia (No. 4) ; large and fine. On the bark of trees, Tutuila. 



Boletus (No. 2 ); the pores exceedingly small. Incrusting trunks of trees on Tutuila. 



(No. 3); the pores a little larger. Attached laterally to the trunks of trees on 



Tutuila. 



Merulius ? (No. 1). On trunks of trees on Upolu. 

 Agaricus (No. 2). Savaii. 



(No. 3) ; small, red, convex, and plaited. The specimen placed in spirits. 



(Peziza, No. 1). One to two inches; cup-shaped; substance thin. On the trunks of 

 dead trees on Savaii. 



Gen. Tremelloid (No. 1); retic. below. On dead trunks, in the forest of Interior Savaii. 

 The specimen placed in spirits. 



The preceding List will be found to include more than three hun- 

 dred species of Ferns and Pha3nogamous plants indigenous on the 

 Samoan Islands; so that the total number growing there can hardly 

 be less than seventeen hundred. Of the above-enumerated species, 

 several were shown by our subsequent observations to be peculiar ; 

 and even, some of the genera seem to be strictly Samoan. 



In the afternoon of the 10th, the vessels of the squadron sailed 

 from Apia, in the Samoan Group. 



4. The Feejeean Island-region. 



a. Uei, or Wall is Island. 



Continuing Westward, the Vincennes, in the course of the morning 

 of the 12th, arrived in sight of Uea or Wallis Island; presenting a 

 novel combination of topographical features ; that of a large coral- 

 island having rocky islets in its lagoon. The extreme elevation of 

 the cluster did not appear to exceed three hundred feet; the surface 



