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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



environs of the Great Crater. Growing also on Mauna Haleakala, from the elevation 

 of 3000 to 5500 feet. 



(Tetramolopium ?, No. 1) ; Aster-like, or compare Erigeron ?. Low, resinous; leaves 

 clavate, and crowded. On Mauna Roa, from the elevation of 7000 to 9.300 feet. 

 On Mauna Kea, from the elevation of 9000 to 11,000 feet. And apparently the same 

 species, on Mauna Haleakala, from the elevation of 6500 to 9500 feet. 



( ) ; seeming larger and smoother than the last. Found by Mr. Rich on Hawaii, 



probably on the Western side of Mauna Roa. 



( ?, No. 2); a second Erica-leaved Compos. On Mauna Kea, at the elevation of 



11,000 feet. 



Gnaphaliuni (No. 2); like G. luteo-album, but perennial. Large and branching; leaves 

 woolly on both sides ; flowers yellow. On Mauna Kea, from the elevation of 9000 to 

 11,200 feet, observed growing in two or three places. Growing also, on Mauna Halea- 

 kala, above the elevation of 7500 feet. 



Argyroxiphium (No. 1). Having something of the habit of Yucca, but the leaves shorter, 

 closely imbricate, and silvery; the flowers in the distance not unlike those of a Cereus. 

 On Mauna Roa, commencing at the elevation of 6300 feet. Growing on Mauna Kea, 

 from the elevation of 10,000 to 12,000 feet. On Mauna Haleakala, commencing at 

 the elevation of 9000 feet, and extending to within thirty feet of the summit. 



nov. sp., (No. 2 ) ; same habit with the preceding, but the leaves green and smooth. 



On Mauna Haleakala, from the elevation of 5500 to 9500 feet. 



nov. sp., (No. 3). Stem simple, si.^ to fourteen feet high; the leaves not crowded, 



distinctly verticillate, or even united for an inch or more, and smooth, with a white 

 woolly margin ; involucre also seeming monophyllous. Along the Leeward verge of the 

 tabular summit of Tauai, at the elevation of about 3700 feet. 



Artemisia (No. 1); white toment. On the summit of the dividing ridge in the crater- 

 like cleft of Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of 7500 feet, Brackenridge. And appa- 

 rently the same species, in the mountain-defile across West Maui. 



; perhaps the same species, though less sericeous. On the Southern flank of 



Mauna Kaala. And again less white, on Tauai. 



Vaccinium (No. 3); glaucous; leaves decussate in the living plant; berry elongate, blue. 

 On Mauna Roa, from the elevation of 9000 to 11,000 feet. On Mauna Kea, to the 

 elevation of 11,500 feet. On Mauna Haleakala, from the elevation of 8500 to 10,200 

 feet, to within a few yards horizontally of the summit. 



(No. 4). A low shrub ; leaves mostly serrate ; berries like diminutive apples, and 



in color red and yellowish. _Seen only in the environs of the Great Crater and on 

 Mauna Roa, abounding, and growing from the elevation of 1000 feet to 6500 ; at this 

 height on the 19th of December, only in flower, while lower down on the previous day, 

 only in fruit. 



■ (No. 5) ; compare the last, but the leaves seeming more deeply serrate; flowers 



short. In the pastoral district on Mauna Kea, at the elevation of 9000 feet. The low 



Sonchus oleraceus, (bis lower down, and Taheiti, United States, Patagonia, the Peruvian 

 Mountain-region, Auckland Island, New Zealand, and No. 2 Europe). Naturalized in 

 the pastoral district on Mauna Kea, to the elevation of 8000 feet; and on Mauna Ha- 

 leakala, to the elevation of 6000 feet. Introduced by colonial Whites. 



