208 ' THE BOTANY OF THE SNARES. 
extreme height of twenty-six feet, with a short a two feet in 
diameter. The branches are somewhat naked, that the tree — 
presents a straggling appearance, but the handeome foliage and 
large termina. ye 
finest members of a large genus aboun in grand species. 
Veronica elliptica, which has ~— ‘ead mentioned, or 
the short list of ligneous plants ; , howe of a more robust 
form than the plant found on Suacaet sland: pa at the Bluff, the 
flowers being larger, with pure white corollas, which are never 
pencilled or streake d. 
of no "great importance are hidden away in the hollows between 
em. 
One of the most interesting plants in the island is ote 
— Hook. f., which hitherto has been considered endemic on the 
uckland, Campbell, and Macquarrie Islands, where it is saerik iful. 
tt is rare —_ local on the Snares, and appears to be seated to a 
small swamp in the ottice of the island, “ its discovery extends its 
rahe: range fully 150 miles; subsequently I observed it on 
i its range 
inner portion consisting of the partially decomposed stems and 
leaves of old plants and the roots of young penis a seeds often 
germinate in the capsule, and it was no uncom to find 
capsules still attached to the stem, and meee decanaty Tebiaok 
seeds embedded some three or four inches below the surface of the 
ass, the old surface haying become covered with a growth 
“2 young — too quickly to allow of the germination of the 
reser ‘interesting plant was a new Ligusticum, which I haya 
named L, acutifolium; it was only observed in one place, at an 
leaves were nearly as thick asa man’s wrist, the entire plant being 
, pen 
The most striking herbaceous plant i is undoubtedly the 
so Lyallii T. Kirk, var. robusta, the large arhienlar oe 
of w which are sometimes two feet in diameter. It differs from the 
nearly é, nt 
flowers also, although forming equally large masses with the type, are 
individually smaller, and invariably of a pale dull yellow hue, never 
— but share 5 1s no structural difference, although it must be ad- 
itted that at first sight the plant appears to differ Sables rte the 
(To be continued.) 
