vegetation they displayed. Since that period, Mr. Smith 
has added many hundred species to his collection, and I 
have the pleasure of receiving every early spring a hamper 
of cut flowers of rare (with us) greenhouse plants cultivated 
in the open air, when the snowdrop and the winter-aconite 
are the only plants to be seen flowering in our open borders. 
Olearia dentata is a native of various localities in the Kast 
coast of Australia, from Port Jackson, the Blue Mountains, 
and Illawarra, southward to Twofold Bay. 
Descr. A stout shrub; branches, leaves beneath, and in- 
florescence clothed with a dense rusty-brown tomentum of 
rigid forked hairs. eaves petioled, very variable, one and 
a half to two and a half inches long, elliptic ovate or 
cordate-ovate, obtuse, obtusely-sinuate crenate, scabrid above ; 
petiole one-third to one-half inch long. Heads one to one 
and a quarter inches in diameter, in terminal erect or spreading 
corymbs; peduncles with oblong buff tomentose bracts. 
Involuere hemispheric; scales many, subacute.  Ligules 
numerous, rosy, notched. <Axnther-cell without appendages. 
Style-arms short, obtuse.  Pappus-hairs  2-seriate, outer 
much the shortest. Achene hairy.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Floret of ray; 2, style-arms; 8, floret of disk; 4, stamens; 
5, style-arms of disk floret :—all magnified. 
