TAS. TOOk 
SENECIO Smiratr. 
Native of South Chili and Fuegia. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosita.—Tribe SENECIONIDEX. 
Genus Senxcio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 446.) 
Senecio Smithii; caule simplice herbaceo valde robusto fistuloso folioso foliis- 
que amplis araneosis, foliis crassiusculis radicalibus petiolatis ovatis 
basi cuneatis cordatis bilobisve, apice obtusis acutisve grosse crenato- 
dentatis subtus nervosis costa crassa, petiolo crasso antice concavo basi dila- 
tato vaginante, caulinis oblongis, capitulis in corymbos terminales_ basi 
foliosos valide pedunculatos dispositis, involucri campanulati calyculati 
araneosi bracteis angustis linearibus acutis viridibus, fl. radii ligulis 
. numerosis brevibus v. elongatis linearibus 3-dentatis albis, styli ramis 
brevibus linearibus obtusis, fl. disci aureis 5-dentatis, styli ramis brevibus 
apice dilatatis, acheniis linearibus glaberrimis sulcatis, pappi setis 
: achenio paullo longioribus subscaberulis. : 
8. Smithii, DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 316. Hook.f. Fl. Antarct. vol. ii. p. 316. 
C. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. iv. p. 198. ; 
S. verbascifolius, Hombr. & Jacquin. Voy. aw Pole Sud. Bot. Dicot, Phan. 
Pers 
Cineraria gigantea, Smith, Ewot. Bot. vol. ii. p. ii. t. 65. 
C. leucanthema, Banks § Sol. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. cum Icone. 
Brachypappus? Smithii, Schult. Bih. in Hohen. Pl. Lechler Magell. Exsice. 
n. 1238. 
This noble Senecio was discovered in January, 1769, 
during Cook’s first voyage, by Banks and Solander, when 
on their disastrous botanizing excursion in Good Success 
Bay in Tierra del Fuego. Since that time it has been 
collected by every naturalist who has visited the Straits 
of Magellan and western coast of South Chili, along which 
it extends as far north as the Island of Chiloe, according 
to a specimen so ticketed by Captain King in the Kew 
Herbarium. Quite recently it has been found in the 
Falkland Islands by Mr. A. Linney of the Government 
Gardens, Stanley Harbour, who sent seeds of it to Kew 
in 1895, describing it as a,coast plant. It would be in- 
teresting to know which of the two Falkland Islands the 
plant inhabits, for not only is the flora of the group a 
singularly scanty one, but there is a botanical difference 
between the Eastern and Western Islands, exemplified by 
Aprit Ist, 1897. 
