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were despatched from tluit place, and bo labels indicating localities 

 were affixed to tliem. However that maj he, it is abundantly 

 clear that no reliance sliould he placed on these labels in Ivew 

 Herbarium as indications of the origin of the specimens to which 

 they are affixed. Several of the plants so labelled are mountain 

 species whose home is on the slopes of the Andes; many others 

 are desert plants from Northern Chili, A few anomalies of dis- 

 tribution, if they stood apart, might not be altogether incredible, 

 but that a single collector should have found a large number of 

 plants, hnowu to characterize other regions, at one single point 

 on the coast where no other botanist has found them, may be 

 safely dismissed from our belief. 



It is remarkable that Teucrium nncJicaiiJe is not enumerated 

 amongst the plants of the desert region in Philippics * Florala Ata- 

 camensis.' Under the number 2G8 he mentions, however, an un- 

 certain species of Teucrium^ of which tlie specimens had been 

 lost, but which he had collected in two localities, and these most 

 probably belonged to T. nudicaule, the only species of the genus 

 hitherto known to grow in that region. 



Flora of Colder a in Northern CJiili. 



A brief halt at Caldera, which I preferred to devote to a walk 

 over the sandy and rocky flats near the port rather than to 

 visiting the neighbouring town of Copiapo, enabled me to add a 

 few interesting plants to my collection. For the first time since 

 leaving Arica some appearance of vegetable life was visible on 

 the coast, in the shape of a few bushes o^ BaccTiaris coif ert if alia j 

 Colla, growing near tbe landing pier. 



The following list includes the few plants collected, chiefly on 

 the rocky ground about a mile from the port, with four others 

 for which I am indebted to an English gentleman who casually 

 gathered them in the same neighbourhood. As Copiapo lies at 

 the southern border of the desert of Atacaraa, I have added a 

 reference to the numbers under wdnch most of them appear ia 

 the 'riorula Atacamensis/ 



CmsTAKiA TiRiDi-LUTEOLA, C GflTy ? Quite uncertain, being 

 without flower or fruit, but certainly the plant seen at Taltal. 



Fagonta aspek.\, C. Gay (Phil Gl). This appears to be, as 



C. Gay admits, no more than a variety of J'', chilensis, Hook. & 

 Am. : but both are verv nearlv allied to the F.crctica. L., tbe 



