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with rich ultramarine flowers, and an extraordinary 
arborescent plant, since named Senecio Johnstoni , look¬ 
ing somewhat like a banana in the distance, but in 
reality consisting of a tall, black, smooth trunk, 
twenty to thirty feet in height, and surmounted by a 
huge crown of broad leaves interspersed or headed up 
with bunches of yellow blossom. This strange composite 
Fig. 56 .—Senecio Johnstoni. 
grew abundantly in the streamlet’s bed, and its trunk 
was so superficially rooted and so rotten that, in spite 
of its height and girth, I could pull it down with one 
hand. 
Tufts of chervil and other tall Umhelliferce , with 
patches of vivid green moss, overhung the water, 
which itself was lovely in its absolute clearness and m 
the bright wavelets and streaks of foam which marked 
