OBSERVATIONS ON HOLL’S LIST. 35 
** Bidens leucantha, Willd.,” is one of the very commonest 
weeds; too abundant every where in moist or rich ground. 
* Antennaria leucophylla, Reichb.”—Gnaphalium crassi- 
folium, Linn., abounds on rocks by the sea, round the whole 
coast; not at ‘ Camera de Lobos” in particular. Icannotdoubt 
it is the plant here intended; for it is assuredly what Bowdich 
called G. tomentosum; and it is also certainly not specifically 
distinct from the Europæan (Majorca and Minorca) plant, 
at least generally known by the name of G. crassifolium, 
Linn.; of which Mr. Höll suggests his suspicion. Linnæus, 
indeed, gives the Cape of Good Hope as the habitat of his 
plant; but the description in his Mantissa so accurately ap- 
plies to ours, as to leave little doubt of its identity, It is 
even possible that his habitat, the Cape, is erroneous, for the 
Hortus Kewensis gives Majorca and Minorca; and then the 
only objection to the identity of the plants vanishes. 
* Elichrysum melaleucum, Reichb.,” is undoubtedly my 
Gnaphalium melanophthalmum in the Camb, Trs.; the G. ru- 
pestre of the Banksian Herbarium and Solander’s MSS. 
Though I had called it Helichrysum melanophthalmum in my 
own MSS. (considering it to belong to Helichrysum, Don, in 
Wern. Soc, vol. 5.) long previous to its publication, I pre- 
ferred, then, continuing the old name Gnaphalium, till the 
appearance of the 5th vol. of the Prodromus of Professor De 
Candolle should finally settle the various groupes into which 
that genus is divisible; changing the MSS. name of rupestre, 
because Rafinesque had previously published a Gnaphalium 
under that name. The plant is by no means confined to the 
ravine indicated by Mr. Höll (Curral das Freiras), but 
common to most in the Island; though in none very abun- 
dant. 
* Phagnalon sazatile, Cass," Conyza saxatilis, Linn., is 
one of our commonest rock-plants every where; at almost all 
elevations, but chiefly below 3000 feet. _ 
** Bellis perennis, Linn.," is merely naturalized very par- 
tially in only a single spot (about the Church and Pilgrims’ 
House of St. Antonio da Serra), whither it was introduced 
