





FLORA OF PATAGONIA, 



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nianum, Been 



c. 



"Creeper, found on high ground and 













amongst shrubs of table-lands ; flowers a round bell-shape, of a 

 dirty white, mottled in the interior with very small spots of purple ; 

 foliage a bright green."— W. Andrews. This is not a creeper, 

 but a climbing plant with weak branches that twine round any 

 support, or, failing such, round each other, 

 over a wide area on the eastern side of South America. 



26. Asclepias linifolia, Beetle. "Plant bushy; fleshy 

 foliage of a bright green ; flowers a greenish white. The stem, 

 when broken, yields an immense quantity of an acrid milk-like 



seems 





fluid; height about 10 inch 



es ; grows in a clump in clay grounds, 





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and generally indicates the presence of salitre." — W. Andrews. 

 am unable to distinguish the limits of the species nearly allied 

 to A. mellodora, St.-Hil., which are widely spread on the eastern 

 side of temperate South America, 













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111. Cbessa cbetica, L. " Small plant • silver-grey foliage and 

 whitish flowers ; found in the island of St. Bias ; soil sandy."— 

 W. Andreics. In these specimens of this cosmopolitan species 

 the fruit is larger than usual. See the remark in Bentb. et Hook. 

 % ' Genera Plantaruin,' ii. p. 881. 























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15. Niebembebgia bigida, Miers. " Plant found in abund- 

 ance on dry sandy or gravelly plains. These specimens were 

 collected about 7 leagues to the S.W. of the Bahia St. Bias. 

 Flowers a pure white, with purplish veins, and an eye of the same 

 colour."— W. Andrews. Though not without doubt, I am disposed 

 to agree with Grisebach (' Symb. ad flor. Argent.' p. 242) in uniting 

 N.filicauUs, Lindl., with N. 



•»• filicaulis imdoub ted 1 v b< 



l ff 



acronia. 



Some caution is necessary in endeavouring to 



iV. rigida. This species 

 seems to extend from Paraguay and the Province of Mendoza to 



North Pat „ ... . ' ' '~~~^~ 



American 



This species and N. linifolia, Miers, are included in the Flora 



Cbilena,' though not, as I believe, found further west than the 



ft - - - - ■ 'Prodromus' 



neighbourhood of Mendo 



In DeCandolle's 











Decaisne has described a plant as from South Brazil, adding that 

 the specimens came from the banks of the Eio Negro of Patagonia. 























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