12 RECORDS OF OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR’S 
margin ; peripheric flowers nearly biseriate, their ligular expansions rather broadish, 
hardly longer than the tube; stigmas of the central flowers extremely narrow, subtle 
barbellate ; achenes bearing minute appressed hairlets, those of the central flowers 
remaining seedless and thus very slender; pappus-bristlets in two rows, ciliolar- 
rough, pale-brownish, the outer generally more than half as long as the inner. 
Summit of Mount Victoria. 
In outward appearance this plant is much like Drapetes ericoides, but the leaves 
are persistent. The extreme thinness of the stigmata of the bisexual flowers may be 
connected with the imperfect development of their fruit; in the latter respect this 
and the foregoing species approach the South-African genus Steirodiscus. There are 
reasons for placing both species either in Aster or Hrigeron. Only after a detailed 
re-examination of the vast number of asteridous plants, now known, it will be possible, 
to fix with precision the respective generic positions of all of them; even if genera 
could in every instance be rigorously defined. Large generic complexes with any 
needful subgenera are for practical purposes always the most convenient, and are 
least taxing to the memory of the systematist. 
Myriactis bellidifornas. 
Perennial, generally dwarf, greyish from a close silk-lke vestiture; leaves 
comparatively small, rather firm, mostly or all basal, on slender petioles, elliptical, 
distantly and minutely glandular-denticulated, flat or at the margin somewhat 
recurved ; stems unbranched, peduncular, but often bearing one or two leaves smaller 
than the others and particularly narrower ; headlets of flowers singly terminal ; bracts 
in two or three rows, considerably overlapping, nearly lanceolar, almost without any 
conspicuous scariosity at the margin ; estaminate flowers in several rows, the ligules 
of their corollas quite narrow, their tube very short; stigmas of bisexual flowers 
capillary-narrow ; achenes narrow-elliptical, truncate, thinly margined, glabrous, those 
of the central flower imperfectly developed. 
Summit of Mount Victoria with Ranunculus. Fibrilles of the root thickly 
filiform. Remnants of the petioles persistent, disintegrating into setular fibres. 
Leaves generally from two-thirds to one inch long, often exceeded in length by their 
stalks. Stems from few to several inches long. MHeadlets of about half an inch 
width. Involucral bracts of rather firm texture, mostly acute. Peripheric corollas 
about a quarter of an inch long, often longitudinally incurved ; their style and stigmas 
very much shorter. Anthers blunt at the base. Fruits very small, not seen in a ripe 
state. 
It has not been deemed desirable, to exclude this plant from the genus Myriactis 
merely on account of the sterility of at least a portion of the central flowers and the 
extreme thinness of their stigmas. But we might for this and the following species 
