Hab. Tierra del Fuego ; abundant in marshy places on the mountains from Port Famine to Cape Horn, Banks and Solander, and all succeeding voyagers.
The very pale colour of the ray of this plant seems to have deceived the older authors in regard to its genus. In this respect it differs from the majority of Seneciones, as also in the apices of the involucral scales not being sphacelated. It is allied to the discoid S. Kingii, mihi.
Plate CYIII. Fig. 1, receptacle ; fig. 2, floret of ray ; fig. 3, arms of style, and. fig. 4, pappus of ditto ; fig. 5, floret of disc ; fig. 6, stamens, and fig. 7, arms of style and ditto ; fig. 8, achasnium : — all magnified.
19. Senecio acantliif alius, Homb. et Jacq. ; herbaceus, erectus, glabriusculus v. pubescens, caule simplici sulcato, foliis inferioribus longe petiolatis oblongo-ovatis basi cordatis secus margines lobatis lobis grosse crenatis petiolis subalatis basi vaginantibus superioribus sessilibus semi-amplexicaulibus, capitulis corymbosis, involucri campanulati squamis glabriusculis sub 1-seriatis. S. acanthifohus, Homb. et Jacq. Toy. au Pole Siul, Bot. Bicot. Than. 1. 11. S. Cineraria purpurascens et C. leucanthema, Banks et Sol. MSS. inMus. Banks, cum iconibus.
Hab. Strait of Magalhaens; Hombron and Jacquinot. Port Famine, Capt. King ; Good Success Bay; Banks and Solander. South part of Fuegia, C. Darwin, Esq.; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, J. B. H.
Herba bipedalis, sylvicola, sueeulenta. Caulis subfistulosus. Folia inferiora una cum petiolo 6-8 unc. longa, lamina petiolo subsequilonga, la^te viridis, suhter saepe discolor et purpurascens. Pedunculi unciales, bracteolis fohaceis subidatisque aucti. Capitula 1-1 unc. diametro, palhde straminea, disco intensiore.
A very handsome species, abundant in the woods of Fuegia.
20. Senecio cuneatus, Hook. til.; herbaceus, glaberrimus, caule ascendente sulcato inferne folioso, foliis plerisque in ramis abbreviatis dispositis obovato-spathulatis basi cuneatis in petiolum attenuatis grosse et irregulariter dentatis subcoriaceis, caule superne longe nudo apice connnbifero, corymbo tricephalo, capitulis pedicellatis, pedicellis basi unifoliatis, involucri campanulati squamis bnearibus glaberrimis uniseriatis.
Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Famine, Capt. King.
Caulis crassitie penna; anatmae, herbaceus. Rami axillares, abbreviati, superiores elongati, floiiferi. Folia patula, plana, subcoriacea, siccitate nigrescentia, 1-1- unc. longa, lata. Pedunculus caule continuus, elongatus, nudus, 3-uncialis, erectus, apice 3-cephalus. Pedicelli basi folio unico aucti, inferiore unciah. Capitula unc. longa, -| lata, basi bracteolis paucis suffidta.
Apparently a most distinct species, of which I have but a very nnperfect specimen, collected by Capt. King; it resembles the S. nigrescens H. and A., of South Chili, but the foliage is different.
21. Sexecio littoralis, (exclud. var. a, lanatus,) Gaud., in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 104, et in Freyc. Toy. Bot. p. 468. B'Urvillein Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 611. BC. Prodr. vol. vi. p. 412. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 494. S. vaginatus, Hook, et Ann. in Bot. Jovrn. vol. iii. p. 331.
Hab. Falkland Islands, very abundant; Gaudichaud, and all subsequent collectors.
As is stated under the S. FalMandicus, the varieties a and /3 of S. littoralis belong to two very different species. The one for which I have retained the name, is generally a maritime plant, usually growing in marshy places and never altogether woolly, or more so in its youngest state than when older. The leaves are extremely variable, straight or falcate, obtuse or generally acute, one line to nearly one third of an inch broad, strictly linear or obovato-lanceolate, sometimes, though rarely, obscurely siuuato-dentate.
