appended of the indigenous species which grow in this parallel, and at a height of upwards of 1500 feet. Like the degraded and savage native, who wanders naked among the bleak rocks and almost equally uninviting woods of this miserable land, these plants may be justly considered the hardiest of their race in the southern hemisphere.
"In the preceding remarks I have attempted to sketch the general aspect of vegetation in a landscape strikingly analogous to the Western Highlands of Scotland. Persons, intimate with the latter country, have only to clothe it in imagination with the plants of Hermite Island, and they will readily understand the relations, in habit and station, which the most remarkable of these bear to one another. The Fuegian Flora possesses some other points of interest, especially when viewed in comparison with that of the antarctic islands lying to
culminant point of the island. They are:—Umbelliferæ: Azorella Selago (also found in Kerguelen Island).—Compos.: Abrotanella emarginata (a Falkland Island plant).—Ericeæ: Pernettya pumila (frequent from Central Chili to Cape Horn).—Empetreæ: Empetrum rubrum (very near the E. nigrum of N. Europe, and also frequent from Central Chili to Cape Horn). The following eleven species reach an elevation of 1500 feet on greenstone; either on Kater's peak, Mount Foster, or another peak which was examined: Viola tridentata, Saxifraga bicuspidata, Escallonia serrata (starved, a plant allied to Saxifraga), Azorella lycopodioides, Ourisia breviflora (allied to Veronica), Drapetes muscosa (a genus of Daphneæ), Fagus Antarctica (the deciduous beech, prostrate and only three inches long) Luzula, sp.? (a species allied to the Arctic L. arcuata); three grasses, Triodia Antarctica, Aira parvula, and Festuca erecta.
