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Antennaria nuUgeyia, F. v. M. in transact. Phil. Soct. Yict. 

 i., 45. Summit of Mount Olympus, Hon. J. E. Scott and Th. 

 Gulliver. This with the following plant is left in the old genus 

 Antennaria, as Raoulia rests on very frail characters, and as it 

 will be impossible to assign for any genus the best limits until 

 the whole of the species of the globe shall have been disco- 

 vered. These additions to Antennaria may likely occur in the 

 Alps of Central Africa and New Guinea. 



* Antennaria 3feredithcs, F. v. M. in notices of the Eoyal 

 Soc. of Tasm. 1870, p. 15. On Mount Olympus in society 

 of A. nubigena, the two plants preserving fully their 

 characteristics under precisely the same conditions. It is 

 remarkable that A. Meredithae should have been so long over- 

 looked. In all likelihood it is to be found on many of the 

 Tasmanian alpine heights. Its leaves are smaller, and of a 

 thicker consistence than those of A. nubigena. This was the 

 only absolutely new phaneorogamic plant discovered by the 

 writer during his short visit to Tasmania in 1869. 



In reality A. nubigena might be placed either in the section 

 Leontopodium, or that of Chionolaena or even in that of 

 Anaphalis, by the union of which a very natural genus (Anten- 

 naria) would be formed, with no greater habitual differences 

 among the species, than are observable in the closely allied 

 genera Helichrysum and Helipterum. 



*Gnap7iaUum candidissimu^n, Lam. encycl. methodiq. H., 

 754. In the vicinity of Hobart Town, on roadsides and 

 in cultivated fields ; S. Hannaford, Th. Gulliver. The 

 transmitted specimens accord precisely with the South African 

 plant. This is the first knowledge, which we possess, of this 

 pretty species having strayed out of its native home. The base 

 of the stem is woody ; hence the plant is doubtless perennial. 



Senecio leptocarpus, Cand. prodr., vi., 372 ; var. pectinata. 

 Eldon's Bluff; Hon. J. E. Scott. 



^Taraxacum officinale^ Weber, primit. flor. Holsat. p. 56. 

 Eendered long since spontaneous on the South Esk, also 

 according to Dr. Milligan's collection in Flinders' Island and 

 Seal Island ; occurring probably on many other places within 

 Tasmanian territory now. 



* Cryptostemma calendulaceum, E. Br. in W. T. Ait. hort. 

 Kew., second edit., v., 141. Seems to have first sprung up 

 about Hobart Town in 1870, according to Mr. Samuel 

 Hannaford. It is an unfortunate introduction, of which 

 Tasmania kept free so long, while this weed had already 

 immigrated into Australia at least forty years ago, according 

 to Baron von Huegel's collection. It is the doubtful Gorteria, 

 mentioned among the plants introduced in Australia at page 

 cviii. of the introduction to the Flor. Tasman, 



