BOTANY 



OF 



CAPTAIN BEECHEY'S VOYAGE. 



CHILL 



[Visited Valparaiso in October and November, 1825 ; and again Valparaiso and Coquimbo in May, 1828.] 



After the investigations of Feuill^e, of Ruiz and Pavon, of the Naturalists of the Russian Expedition 

 under Capt. Kotzebue, partly made known by Chamisso and Schlechtendal in the different volumes of tlie 

 Linnaea, and of Mr. Macrae, Dr. Gillies, and Mr. Cruckshanks, some of whose collections have been 

 described in the Botanical Magazine and Register, and in the Botanical Miscellany, it is not to be expected 

 that this portion of Capt. Beechey's Herbarium should be of a very novel nature, particularly as the 

 Naturalists had but little opportunity of visiting the interior of the country. 



Cl. I. DICOTYLEDONE^i. 



Subcl. I. THALAMIFLORjE. DC. 

 Ord. I. RANUNCULACEiE. Juss. DC. 



1. ANEMONE. DC. 

 1. A. decapetala; foliis radicalibus profunde trilobis tripartitisve lobis rotundato- 

 cuneatis subincisis, involucralibus sessilibus tripartito-multifidis laciniis linearibus acutis, 

 sepalis 10-12 lineari-oblongis, capitulo oblongo densissime lanato. (Tab. I.) — Linn. Mant. 

 p. 79. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 200. Prodr. v. 1. p. 19. — A. trilobata. Juss. Ann. 

 du Mus. v. 3. p. 248. t. 21. / 3. — A. macrorhiza. Domb. Herb, (fide De Cand.) 



Radix tuberosa ; tuberc solitario, oblongo, fibroso, vix unciam longo. Folia omnia radicalia, circumscrip- 

 tione cordato-rotundata, profunde trifida vel tripartita, hirsuta, juniora praecipue; lobis subrotundo-cuneatis, 

 remote dentatis, incisisve. Petiolus pollicaris, dense pilosus. Scapus spithamseus ad pedalem, hirsutus, 

 superne praecipue, pilis erecto-patentibus, uni-biflorus. Involucra involucellaque triphylla; foliolis sessilibus, 

 tripartito-multifidis, basi dilatatis, segmentis linearibus, acutis, primum dense pilosis, demum glabriusculis. 

 Pedicellus digitalis ad palmarem, erectus, hirsutus. Sepala patentia, albo-cserulescentia, lineari-elliptica, 



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