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Verbena teucrioides, Gill. Sf Hook. Common at Bahia 

 Blanca and in North Patagonia ; flowers white (No. 138, G. C). 



Verbena erinoides, Lam. Bahia Blanca ; North Patagonia 

 (No. 139, G-. C). This has lilac flowers, with a scent of Vanilla, 

 which come out early (November). 



Verbena incisa, Hook. ? Bahia Blanca (Nob. 163 and 204, 

 G. C). The specimens are very incomplete fragments, and the 

 name therefore rather uncertain. The flowers are red, and tho 

 plant is commonly called Margarita. 



Labiate. 



Hedeoma multiflora, Benth. Bahia Blanca and North 

 Patagonia (No. 125, G. C). This plant, called by the Spaniards 

 Menta del Campo, is much used medicinally, the decoction being 

 considered a remedy for diarrhoea and various stomach derange- 

 ments. From the fact of having no Indian name, M. Claraz 

 supposes the plant to be of recent introduction into Patagonia. 

 It was, however, long ago found by Gillies, Tweedie, and others 

 at various places in the south and west parts of the Argentine 

 territory, while it extends northward to South Brazil. 



Plantagine^. 



Plantago major, L. Common at Ajo and elsewhere (No. 190, 

 Gr. C). Doubtless introduced from Europe. 



Plantago patagonica, Jacq., var. Bahia Blanca and North 

 Patagonia, very common (No. 127, G. C). Among a large set 

 of specimens of this very variable species, I find none quite agree- 

 ing with this variety. It comes nearest to the form most common 

 in North America (P. gnaplialoides, Nutt.). The pubescence, 

 especially of the calyx, is abundant, cottony, white, and not, as 

 in many forms of the species, rufous. 



Plantago Bismarckii, Niederl. Sierra de la Ventana (No. 60, 

 Gr. C). This is a curious and very distinct species, described by 

 Niederleiu in the ' Monatschrift zur Beforderung des Gartenbaus 

 in d. k. Preussischen Staateu ' for 1881, p. 16. It forms a small 

 bush, 1 to 2 feet high, with a woody stem nearly an inch in dia- 

 meter, and numerous crowded tufts of linear-subulate leaves on 

 the lateral branches. 



