33 THK VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER 



COMPOSITE. 



Erigeron fruticosus, DC. 



Erigeron fruticosus, DC, Prodr., v. p. 283; Gay, Fl. Chil., iv. p. 22. 



Terranea femandezia, Colla in Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxxviii. p. 11, t. 23. 



Aster erigeroides, Hook, et Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag., ii. p. 48, cum f$ prolifero. 



Juan Fernandez. — Woods in the higher mountains — Bertero ; rocky plain — 

 Douglas; Cuming, 1334; Mbseley; Heed; Downton. Masafueea. — Reed, collected in 

 1872. 



This species, which is apparently confined to these islands, bears a strong resemblance 

 to the endemic Bermudan Erigeron darrellianus. 



Erigeron rupicolus, Pbilippi. 



Erigeron rupicolus, Priilippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. 644. 



Masafueea (ex Philippi). 



"We have seen no specimen of this species, which is described as a dwarf, glabrous, 

 suffruticose plant having crowded spathulate leaves on long petioles, and small flower- 

 heads with white rays. 



Micropsis nana, DC. 



Micropsia nana, DC, Prodr., v. p. 460; Philippi in Bot. Zeit, 1856, p. 629; Gay, Fl. Chil, iv. 

 p. 108. 



Juan Fernandez (ex Philippi). 



An annual herb, from one to three inches high, otherwise peculiar to Chili, and probably 

 of recent introduction into the island, for it does not exist in any of the collections consulted 

 for this report. 



Gnaphalium cheiranthifolium, Lam. 



Gnaphalium cheiranthifolium, Lam., Encycl., ii. p. 752; DC, Prodr., vi. p. 223 ; linker in Mart. Fl. 



Bras., fasc. lxxxvii. p. 122 (varietates plures). 

 (Inajihaliniii [lauinilaluni, Colla in Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxxviii. p. 17, t. 26. 

 Gnaphalium citrinum, Hook, et Arn. in Bot. Beech. Voy., p. 31; DC, Prodr., vi. p. 223; Gay, Fl. 



Chil., iv. p. 222. 



Juan Fernandez. — In mountain pastures — Bertero ; Scolder. 

 Exceedingly common and widely spread in South America. 



Gnaphalium insulare, Philippi. 



Gnaphalium insulare, Philippi in Bot. Zeit, 1856, p. 645. 



Masafueea. — Endemic? (ex Philippi). 



Cuming's 1353 may lie this species, but the genus is a difficult one. Many of the 

 species are weeds of cultivation and waste places, and colonise freely in the most unlikely 



