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into the British Islands,” printed in the Kew Bulletin for 1910 (pp. 120-126), and 
which contains much information of value respecting the vegetation of the Chatham 
Islands, Captain Dorrien-Smith gives an account of a visit to two of the few 
localities known for Cozella, accompanying his remarks with an _ excellent 
photograph of the plant in its natural habitat. He suggests that its present 
scarcity is due to the depredations of cattle, which eat it readily wherever 
they can get at it. A parallel case exists in Myosotedium nobile, which once 
fringed the sea-coast for miles, but which now, through the combined attacks 
of sheep and pigs, hardly exists in the wild state, although, fortunately, well 
established in cultivation. 
Puate 64. Cozella Dieffenbachii, drawn from specimens collected for Mr. F. A. D. Cox at Te Tuku, 
Chatham Islands. A, male plant; B, female; C, fruit. Fig. 1, bracts (enlarged); 2, male flower 
(x7); 8, same with petals and stamens removed (x7); 4, petal (x7); 5 and 6, front and back 
view of anthers (x 8); 7, female flower (x7); 8, the same with the petals removed, showing the 
sterile stamens (x 7); 9, the same with the stamens removed also (x7); 10, petal (x10); 11, fruit 
(x 2); 12 and 13, transverse sections of fruit (x 7). 
