the fact that the only true shrub in the flora, Veronica 
elliptica, Forst. (see Tab. 242, V. decussata, Ait.) has been 
found in the Western Island only (that nearest to Fuegia), 
where, as I have been informed, it is local, and confined 
to the Southern and Western coasts. It may be mentioned 
here that V. elliptica is one of the very few shrubs that is 
common to Chili, Fuegia, New Zealand, and the islands 
West and South of the latter. 
Senecio Smithit varies a good deal in height, robustness, 
number of flower-heads, and length of the ray-flowers, 
which are sometimes very narrow and short. The speci- 
men figured is of a plant raised from seeds sent by Mr. 
Linney in 1895, which grew vigorously, and flowered in 
an open border in June, 1896, and has attained three feet 
in height, with the stem as thick as the thumb. 
Descr.—A robust perennial, green, leafy herb, three to 
four feet high, more or less clothed with a loose cobwebby 
indumentum. Stem as thick as the thumb below, and as 
the middle finger about the middle. Lower leaves eight 
to ten inches long, ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse, 
coarsely crenate-toothed, thickly leathery, pale green; 
base cuneate, rounded-cordate, or 2-lobed; midrib very 
stout below, with prominent nerves; petiole very stout, 
concave in front; upper leaves sessile, oblong. Heads 
many, in a leafy, terminal corymb, pedicels long or 
short, stout. Jnvolucre one half to two-thirds of an inch 
long, campanulate; bracts very narrow, acute, green. 
Riay-flowers twenty to thirty, white, very variable, one- 
fourth to three-fourths of an inch in length, linear, tip — 
three-toothed; style-arms short, linear. Disk-flowers 
yellow, 5-toothed ; style-arms short, recurved, tips dilated. 
Achene about one-third of an inch long, very narrow, 
deeply grooved, glabrous; pappus rather longer than the 
achene, white, rather rough.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray- flower ; 2, disk-flower ; 3, panpus-hair; 4, stamens; 5, style-arms 
of disk-flowers ; 6, achene ; all enlarged ;,7, whole plant greatly reduced, 
