FLORA OF MAGELLAN.) (PLATE 59.

MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA, OR MAGELLAN KELP.) RECAPITULATION.
I will recapitulate the principal facts with regard to the climate, ice-action, and organic productions of the southern hemisphere, transposing the places in imagination to Europe, with which we are so much better acquainted.

Then, near Lisbon, the commonest sea-shells, namely, three species of Oliva, a Voluta, and a Terebra, would have a tropical character.

In the southern provinces of France, magnificent forests, intwined by arborescent grasses and with the trees loaded with parasitical plants, would hide the face of the land.

The puma and the jaguar would haunt the Pyrenees.