Captain King also mentions a beech which was seven feet in diameter seventeen feet above the roots.
(PLATE 55.

CYTTARIA DARWINII.) There is one vegetable production deserving notice from its importance as an article of food to the Fuegians.

It is a globular, bright-yellow fungus, which grows in vast numbers on the beech-trees.

When young it is elastic and turgid, with a smooth surface; but when mature, it shrinks, becomes tougher, and has its entire surface deeply pitted or honeycombed, as represented in Plate 55.

This fungus belongs to a new and curious genus (11/4.
Described from my specimens and notes by the Reverend J.M.