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SoNCHUS OLERACEUS. 



Linn. Spec. 1116 ; Forst. Prodr. 282 ; E. Brown, Append, to Plinders's Voy. 

 592; Ach. Eich. Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. 230 ; J. Hook. Fl. N. Zeel. i. 153 ; 

 S. asper, Fuclis, Histor. 674; J. Hook. Fl. Tasm. i. 227. 



On Pitt-Island only, where it grows on the sides of clififs at the 

 sea-coast. 



Mr. Travers's plant exhibits a very luxurious variety and has its 

 peduncles densely covered with closely appressed white wool. As 

 far as the material permits of judging the Chatham-plant is not 

 distinct from the Linnean species, but the fruit requires yet to be 

 compared. 



LOBELIACEiE. 



Lobelia anceps. 



Thxmberg, Prodrom. Flor. (Japens. p. 40 ; Eich. Voy. de I'Astrol. 227 ; Alph. 

 de Candolle in Cand. Prodr. vii. 375 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 158 ; 

 L. alata, Labill. Plant. Nov. Holl. Specim. i. 51, t. 72; E. Br. Prodr. 562 ; 

 Ecem. <fc Scliult. Syst. Veg. v. 69 ; Endlich. Prodr. Flor.' Insul. Norfolk, 

 50 ; L. cimeiformis, Labill. 1. c. 51, t. 73. 



On swampy or damp rocky places of Chatham-Island. 



The stems of this plant are occasionally quite prostrate and 

 radicant. The upper lobes of the corolla are linear, channelled, 

 ascendent and outside purplish-brown ; the lower lobes oblong- 

 cuneate, horizontal, blunt, apiculate, with an outside prominent 

 purple costa ; the faux at the lower lip is white ; the tube inside 

 yellowish. 



SOLANACE^. 



SOLANUM AVICULARB. 



Forster, Prodrom. 107 ; Forst. Plant. Escul. 12 ; AohUl. Eicliard, Voyage de 

 I'Astrolabe, 193 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 182 ; F. M. in Transact. 

 Victor. Inst. 68 ; S. lacinatum, Alton, Hort. Kew. first edit. i. 247 ; Willd. 

 Spec. Plant, i. 1030; E. Brown, Prodrom. 445; Botan. Magaz. 349; 

 Botan. Cabin. 717 ; Ecem. & Schnlt. Syst. Veget. iv. 578. 



Common near edges of creeks of Chatham-Island. 



The plant extends in Continental Australia from the eastern 

 boimdary of the colony of South Australia to the southern part of 

 Queensland and is common is Tasmania. It is shrubby in age and 

 many feet high. The berries are yellow or orange-colored and usually 

 egg-shaped ; they have proved poisonous to some animals when 

 taken in quantity. Dunal (conf Cand. Prodr. xiii. Part i. 69) has 

 in following Nees of Esenbeck (Lehm. Plant. Preiss. i. 343) united 



