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and alternate with the calycine segments, as Bartling 
describes, and this last is a peculiar character of the 
Portulacee. 
© (1.) Corrigiola telephiifolia, Pourr.—Valparaiso, Cum- 
ing (N. 370.)—Perhaps introduced with grain. In our 
Chilian specimens the branches of the inflorescence are 
. much elongated, about 8 or 9 inches long. 
517, 
(2.) Corrigiola squamosa, (Hook. et Arn.); caudice 
perenni subramoso apice valde squamoso multicauli, 
caulibus prostratis, foliis lineari-oblongis, racemis co- 
rymbosis aphyllis.— Valparaiso, Mathews (N. 250.) ; 
Cuming (N. 689.) Vina de la Mar, and Playa Ancha, 
near Valparaiso, Bridges, 1832, (N. 157 and 158.)— 
That portion of the root, or rather lower part of the stem, 
which we have above called a caudex, from its resem- 
- blance to that part in Ferns, we have seen in no other 
519. 
520. 
species of the genus: the scaly appearance at its sum- 
mit is obviously caused by a visite of —- of a 
rusty brown colour. 
(3.) Corrigiola deltoidea, Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. 
Voy. v. 1. p. 24.— Conception, Messrs. d and Collie. 
Valparaiso, Chiming: (N 517.) 
(1.) Herniaria setigera, (Gill. s pérchnis; haces, 
puberula, multicaulis, prostrata, foliis oblongo-lanceo- 
latis apice spinuloso-setigeris, floribus subsessilibus axil- 
laribus subsolitariis extus puberulis, staminibus 3, stylis 
basi concretis.—Paronychia australis, Gill. mst.—El 
Aguadita, near La Punta de San Luis, Dr. Gillies.— 
This species has no scales or abortive petals, and we 
can perceive but one style and stigma. : 
(1.) Paronychia Chilensis, DeCand.— Valparaiso, Cum- 
ing (N. 435.); Bridges, 1832, (N. 348.) Conception, 
Cuming (N. 819.)—' The lobes of the calyx are decid- 
edly, but shortly, aristate, on which account we had 
almost referred our plant to P. Bonariensis, but that 
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