I cannot make out why you consider the vegetation so Fuegian.") Down, 8th [July, 1856].
I do hope that this note may arrive in time to save you trouble in one respect.

I am perfectly ashamed of myself, for I find in introduction to Flora of Fuegia (326/2.

"Flora Antarctica," page 216.

"Though only 1,000 miles distant from the Cape of Good Hope, and 3,000 from the Strait of Magalhaens, the botany of this island [Tristan d'Acunha] is far more intimately allied to that of Fuegia than Africa." Hooker goes on to say that only Phylica and Pelargonium are Cape forms, while seven species, or one-quarter of the flora, "are either natives of Fuegia or typical of South American botany, and the ferns and Lycopodia exhibit a still stronger affinity.") a short discussion on Tristan plants, which though scored [i.e.marked in pencil] I had quite forgotten at the time, and had thought only of looking into introduction to New Zealand Flora.

It was very stupid of me.