948 BOTANY 
the first trees to appear after the bush has been 
burned off. 
3. The olearias are shrubs and trees. | 
4. The celmisias are daisy-like flowers with tough 
usually lanceolate leaves found chiefly in alpine 
districts. 
L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.R.S., photo 
Vegetable Sheep (Raoulia eximia), Mt. Torlesse, Canterbury ; 
sub-alpine belt, 
5. The senecios are chiefly shrubs. They are nearly 
related to the common groundsel. 
MONOCOTYLEDONS. 
Speaking generally, monoecotyledons differ from 
dicotyledons in having parallel veined leaves, 
scattered vascular bundles without cambium, only one 
cotyledon in the seed, and the parts of the flower in 
threes instead of fours and fives, as is usually the ease 
in dicotyledons. These distinctions, however, do not 
