MACLOSKIE I COMPOSIT/E. 



845 



Ligules twice as long, linear-oblong. Style-branches truncate. Achenes 

 glabrous. Pappus white. 



The described branch is 24 cm. high. Lower leaves somewhat crowded, 

 about 25 mm. long, 12 mm. broad; the upper leaves gradually smaller. 

 Heads 4 at apex of the branch, but in one strict lateral branch 3. Pedi- 

 cels 4-8 cm. long. Involucre i cm. high and slightly narrower. Corollas 

 of ray with a slender tube, 5 mm. long; ligules 12 mm. long, 3 mm. 

 broad, tridentate, 4-lineate, closely resembling S. otceguianus Phil., but 

 differing by its broader leaves, bracted pedicels and by having a calyculus. 



W. Patagon., by Rio Aysen. Coll. Dusen, Jan. 8, 1897 (n. 472). 



27. S. EIGHTSII Hook. & Arn. 



Heads radiate. Close to S. darwinii, but with smaller, narrower, deeply 

 trifid leaves, their segments varying in breadth, sometimes linear. Heads 

 smaller. 



Magellan ; Fuegia ; Staaten I. 



Var. with procumbent stem, lax, leafy, ascending branches, leaves 3-5- 

 cleft, and heads shortly peduncled. 



FIG. 100. 



28. S. EXILIS Homb. and Jacq. 



Stem prostrate, the branches ascending, cylindric, tomentose. 

 oblong-linear, acute, sessile, entire, apically 

 revolute-margined, both sides tomentose. 

 Involucral scales i -seriate, oblong, acute, 

 sublacerous, with membranaceous margin, 

 half as long as the flowers. Achenes gla- 

 brous. 



Magellan ; E. Fuegia, Dusen. 



Leaves 



29 



(S. littor- 



S. FALKLANDICUS Hook. f. 



alis lanatus Gaud.) 



Heads radiate, subsolitary. Shrub, with 

 branches, peduncles and under surface of 

 leaves densely woolly. Leaves linear-ob- 

 long to obovate-spatulate or lanceolate, entire 

 or toothed, ending with an apical subacute callus, the margins revolute. 

 Heads large, near 4 cm. across, most of them pedunculate, the peduncles 



Senecio falklandicus. Leafy branch 

 and flower-head ; also a disk-flower and 

 a ray-flower. ( From Flora antarctica. ) 



