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tube are confluent about halfway. It has heen found at several 

 stations in the Andes from Ecuador to Central Chili. 



2. i. cMIensis, iN'aud. 1, c.,=L. terminalis, Naitd,^ in Fl. Chil. 

 i, p, 2555=L. nubigena^P/^?'/. iI/5'>S'. This has very narrow stem- 

 leaves, stems usually simple, one-flowered, calyx divided to about 

 half its length, the outer nerves of each segment confluent near 

 the base, the alternate stamens adnate to the base of the petals, 

 the filaments ciliated, and angular seeds. To this I refer many 

 Chilian specimens, as well as mine fram Chicla, and No. 989 of 

 Mandon'3 " Bolivian Plants," although the latter are in some 

 respects intermediate. This approaches more nearly to Z. a^pe- 

 tala^ L.j than either of its allies, 



3. i. magellanica, Lam. Distinguished by its very narrow stiff 



leaves, incurved at the edges when the plant is mature, and the 

 comparatively large flower. 



Ceeastium GLOMERAxrM, Thuil. Forma sepalis angustis 

 acutis. Chicla ; perhaps introduced ! 



It is, I think, time for botanists to free themselves from the 

 servitude of adhering to a Linuean name when the object to 

 w^iich the name properly belougs is involved in confusion, and 

 the practice serves only to prolong profitless controversy. Every 

 one knows what is meant by Cerastium glomcratum^ ThuiL, but 

 who is quite sure as to C. vulgattim^ L, ? 



SxELLAKiA LEPTOPETALA, Bentli, PI, Harttv, p. 163. Chicla! 



Stellaria media, VilL Trequent about Chicla! I much 

 doubt the presence of this species in distant regions being due to 

 the agency of man. 



Aeenaeia Alpamabcje, a, Gray^ Bot, Z7. S. ExpL Exped, i. 

 p. 114. Above Casapalta ! This very much resembles Colohan- 

 thzis suhidatiis^ Hook. fil. 



Dbtmakia js^itida, n. sp. Chicla ! 



Herba annua, pumila, glaberrima, e basi ramosa, ramis sub- 

 erectis 3-6-pollicaribus ; foliis late elliptico-ovatis, apice acutis 

 vel brevissime cuspidatis, sessilibus, integerrimis, subcarnosis ; 

 stipulis minimis, setaceis, fugacissimis ; cjmis tcrminalibus, 

 parvis, densis ; floribus breviter pedicellatis, virgineis nutanti- 

 bus ; pedicellorum bracteis parvis, ovatis, scariosis ; sepalis late 

 ovatis, obtusiusculis, concavis, eveniis, demum purpurascentibus ; 

 petalorum lamiuis in unguem tenuem angusitatis, prof unde fissis ; 



