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with S. aviculare an allied still specifically quite different West- 

 Australian plant, S. fasciculatum (F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. i. 123). 

 In the colony of South Australia S. simile (F. M. in Transact. Phil. 

 Soc. Vict. i. 19) takes its place. S. vescum (F. M. in Transact. Vict. 

 Inst. 67 ; Plants of Vict. tab. Ixii.) dubiously referred to S. aviculare 

 by Dr. Hooker (Flor. Tasm. i. 288) is amply distinct and has re- 

 cently been discovered also on the islands of Western Port. Whether 

 the Timor plant (conf. Decaisne, Herb. Timor, 42) described by Dunal 

 as S. aviculare in Candolle's Prodromus and previously introduced 

 into his elaborate Synopsis Solanorum, p. 9, as S. glaberrimum, is 

 identical with our southern species, requires to be further ascer- 

 tained and seems improbable. 



Mr. Travers alludes in his journal to a dwarf New Zealand Night- 

 shade also found in the Chatham-group. This is unquestionably the 

 now cosmopolitan S. nigrum, immigrated there like into Australia. 



MYOPORIN^. 



Myoporum l.s:tum. 



Forst. Prodrom. 238 ; All. Cunn. ia Annala of Nat. Hist. i. 461 ; Alph. de 

 Cand. in Caad. Prodr. xi. 709 ; J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 204. 



Common in the woods of Chatham- Island. 



Though Mr. Travers's specimiaa are destitute of flowers and 

 fruits, which were not obtainable at the time of his visit, there 

 seems no doubt that the Chatham-plant is referable to the New 

 Zealand species. The leaves are not quite so grossly dotted as 

 generally those of the New Zealand plant, but like these often 

 toothed far below the middle. 



ASPEEIFOLI^. 



Myosotidium nobile. 



Hook. Bot. Magaz. t. 5137 ; Synoglossum nobile, J. Hook, in Lindl. Gaxdn. 



Chronicle, 1858, p. 240. 



Everywhere on the coast, but chiefly on sea-sand often moistened 

 by salt-water. 



According to Mr. Travers the natives eat the root and use the 

 leaves for smoking. Pigs feed eagerly on the roots. 



The following description is given chiefly from a brief essay on 

 the vegetation of the Chatham-Islands read during the session of 

 1858 before the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, when a living 

 flowering plant of this species was exhibited. 



