350 
flowers are not solitary, but several in each umbel. 
The tube of the male calyx is smooth, that of the fe- 
male is echinate. 
572. (1) Eryngium divaricatum (Hook. et Arn.); perenne, 
513. 
caulibus prostratis dichotome divaricatis foliosis rigidis, 
foliis inferioribus bipinnatifidis caulinis piunatifidis, la- 
ciniis linearibus spinescentibus divaricatis, pedunculis 
axillaribus et in dichotomiis brevibus, involucri foliolis 
subulatis reflexis capitulo elliptico quadruplo brevioribus, 
paleis flores vix sequantibus,—Buenos Ayres, Tweedie. 
(2.) Eryngium ffaccidum (Hook. et Arn.); annuum, foliis 
radicalibus flaccidis longe petiolatis profunde pinnatifi- 
dis, segmentis linearibus spinescentibus sursum spec- 
tantibus, caule gracili superne paniculato, involucri 
.. foliolis lineari-lanceolatis rigidis acutis integerrimis ca- 
574, 
5 75. 
576. 
pitula elliptica aquantibus, paleis flores vix aequantibus. 
— Buenos Ayres, Tweedie. 
(3.) Eryngium «coronatum (Hook. et feet ee perenne, 
foliis radicalibus lanceolatis spinoso-pinnatifidis, laciniis 
lanceolato-subulatis patentibus, caule superne paniculato 
polycephalo, involucri foliolis lineari-subulatis spinosis 
integerrimisreflexis capitulum cylindraceum subsequanti- 
bus, paleis oblongis acutis pallidis flores sequantibus 
supremis 2—4 in cornua longa excrescentibus involucri 
foliola semulantibus.—Buenos Ayres, Tweedie,—Stem 
from 6 to 8 inches high. 
(4.) Eryngium rostratum, Cav. ic. v. 6. t. 552,—Valpa- 
raiso, Cuming, N. 574. La Placilla near Valparaiso» 
Bridges, 1832, (N. 175.) 
(5.) Eryngium anomalum, (Hook. et Arn. , calling annua 
simplici, foliis apice grosse crenato-dentatis radicalibus 
rotundatis basi cuneatis petiolatis, caulinis superioribus 
cuneatis, capitulis breve pedunculatis, involucri foliolis 
paleisque subzqualibus oblongis mucronato-spinosis 
integerrimis flores sessiles multo superantibus, fructu 
vesiculis papilloso.— Valparaiso, Cuming (N. 361.)— 
The fruit and the palez or bracteze among the flowers 
