561. 
568. 
349 
p. 668.— Cordillera of Chili, in various places, (9000 to 
10,000 feet,) Dr. Gillies. 
(1.) Asteriscium Chilense, Cham. et Schlecht.—DeCand. 
Gill. et Hook. 7. c. p. 332. t. 67. A.—A. Poeppigii, De 
Cand. Prod. v. 4. p. 82.—Anisillo vulgo Mouchu, Feuill. 
Chil. v. 3. 7. 2.—La Cuesta de Patines in Chili, (1600 
feet.) Dr. Gillies. Cliffs by the sea-side, Valparaiso, 
Mathews, (N. 328.) ; Cuming, (N. 559.) ; Bridges, 1832, 
(N. 473.)—The distinguishing characters between De 
Candolle’s two species occur on the same specimen. 
(2.) Asteriscium polycephalum, Gill. et Hook. 4. c. p. 332. 
~ & 67. B.—Mulinum Dipterygia, DeCand. Prod. v. 4. 
569. 
510. 
p. 80.—Andes of Mendoza (7500 feet), Dr. Gillies.— 
The inflexed petals of this species and the next forbid 
their being united to Mulinum. | 
(3.) Asteriscium isatidicarpum, (Hook, et Arm. )—Mu- 
linum isatidicarpum, DeCand. 7. c.—Cordillera of Chili, 
Cuming (N. 302.) ; Bridges, 1832, (N. 69.) 
(hà Senieula: détente beste a ani- 
caulis, Poepp.—Conception, Messrs. Lay and Collie. 
Stony valleys near Valparaiso, Cuming (N. 436.) ; 
Mathews (N. 208.); Bridges, 1832, (N. 474.)—Nom. 
vernac. Pato de Leon.—DeCandolle not having ob- 
served the few pedicellate male flowers that are mixed 
with the sessile female ones, has supposed them all to 
be hermaphrodite, and inadvertently admitted Poeppig's 
— plant as a species: all have polygamous flowers, ex- 
571. 
cept, perhaps, S. Triclinium, which, however, is involved 
in doubt. 
(2.) Sanicula graveoleus, Poepp.—Valparaiso, Mr. Cruck- 
shanks ; Bridges, 1832, (N. 471.) ; Mathews, (N. 274.) ; 
Cuming, (N. 507.)—Although this species has an ap- 
pearance alien to the genus, yet so far from its forming a 
new one, as DeCandolle supposes, it does not even con- 
stitute a distinct section. "The male flowers are most 
numerous and shortly pedicellate, but the sessile female 
