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Ats^themis CotulAjZ. Introduced from Europe, but thoroughly 

 naturalized in Chili. 



CoTriiA coKOKOPiroLiA, L. A cosmopolitan species, "uhose 

 origin in America is luicertain. It is undoubtedly indigenous in 

 Australia, Tasmania, ^ew Zealand, and in Southern Africa, but 

 is now thorougl]Iy established in many other parts of the world. 

 Antarctic it^lands may have been the original home oftbisand 

 several allied species. 



Senecio yulgaeis, L. x\2)parently of recent introduction in 

 Chili, but now naturalized. It is not included amongst tlie 113 

 species of Senecio described in the 'Plora Chilena,' 



MuTisiA iLiciEOLixV, Cav. Like most species of this singular 

 genus this has its proper home in Chih'. It has been found at 

 several pLices in the Andes, and extends southward to the island 

 of Chiloe. 



IIypochceris Lechlebi? My single specimen closely agrees 

 with a plant found by Lechler in the province of Valdivia, and 

 named by Schultz Bipontinus AcliyropTioriis LecJileri, In his 

 revision of the species of AcliyroplioruB (* Pollichia/ 1859, p. 6G) 

 Schultz subsequently identified his ovin A. Lechleri with A, fene- 



rifoliuSj Eemy. That name is objectionable as being too like the 

 older name A, tenuifolius, DC. ; and if this be retained as a species 

 it may best be called Hypochceris Leclileri, It appears to me tliat 

 the species of this section of the genus HypocJioeris have been - 

 unduly multiplied; but I liave not had access to sufficient materials 

 to form any judgment as to the true limits of the numerous 

 forms that abound in Chili and Peru. I should conjecturally 

 refer this as a variety to IT. apargioideSy Hook, et Arn. (sub Se- 

 viol a). 



Crepis virens, L. Doubtless introduced from Europe. 

 Lecliler collected a Crepis somewhere in this part of Chili which 

 appears to have been named, but not published, by Schultz Bipon- 

 tinus as Crepis Lechler i- In Kew Herbarium there are specimens 

 of Crepis virens from Valdivia ; but no botanist has detected any 

 indigenous species of Crepis in Chili, and it is allowable to suspect 

 that Lechler's plant, which I have not seeia, is merely a form 

 of the common European species. 



LoiiELiA TEyERA, II. B^ K. This docs not appear to have 



