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In the Challenger reports some of these are figured in Kergne- 

 len, and they abound in Magellania and Staaten Ishmd. 



Hurrying along we are stopped by the most extraordinary 

 of shrubs, Verbena carroo, like petrified Astrea-corals, but each 

 short branch consisting of four rows of small closely appressed 

 leaves. Next we note the handsomest of shrubs, the Veronica 

 elliptica Forst., now familiar to Killarney tourists, as the most 

 beautiful of the vegetable treasures of the lakes. This plant is 

 found in Magellan, Fuegia, Falklands,, Xew Zealand, Auckland 

 Island, CampbelFs Island, and is well called the ^'Southern 

 Hebe." 



A peculiar section of Plant ago (known as Plantaginella) 

 has several species characteristic of Australia and Patagonia, 

 having many spikes each few-flowered, often with only a single 

 flower to the spike. A new form of this group was described for 

 me by Prof. E. L. Morris of Washington, D. C, and named 

 Planiago coelorliiza (having hollow root-stock). These go with 

 many other groups of species, to prove a direct communication 

 with Australia, by water or Avind, or by both, and they seem to 

 be unrepresented in northern parts. 



The Calyceracese show^ their afiinity to Compositse by their 

 distribution as well as by their structure, having their headquar- 

 ters in Peraustral America. One of them, Boopis scapigera 

 Remy, appeared to us so little known and so peculiar, that we 

 gave it a special figure (plate xxvi, 1. c). Its radical rosulate 

 leaves send up a crowd of nearly leafless diverging scapes, each 

 of these croA\med by a head of flowers, having the habit, but few 

 of the characters, of the Composita^. 



This brings us to the last great family, the Compositse, 

 which are the lords of the vegetable creation, so far as this region 

 is concerned. We shall give a separate account of these at a 

 future time. 



Princetoi^ University, Feb. 21, 1907. 



