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PLANTAGINEiE. 

 Plantago femandeziana, Bertero. 



Flantago fernandeziana, Bertero ex Barneoud, Monogr. Plantag., p. 47; DC, Prodr., xiii. 1, p. 704 ; 



Gay, Fl. ChiL, v. p. 202. ' 

 Rdbinsonial nervosa, Philippi in Bot. Zeit., 1856, p. 645, et Cat. PI. Vase. Cbil., p. 176. 



Juan Fernandez. — Endemic. Rocky places in the higher mountains near Portezuelo — 

 Bolero; Germain. 



A very striking species, with a stem from three to six feet high. 



t INCOMPLETE. 



CHENOPODIACE.E. 

 Roubieva multifida, Moq. 



Roubieva multifida, Moq. in Ann. Sc. Nat., sex. 2, i. p. 292, t. 10, fig. B., et in DC. Prodr., xiii. 2, 



p. 80. 

 Ambrina pinnat iseda, Spach, Veg. Phanerog., v. p. 296. 

 Chenopodium multifidum, Linn., Sp. PL, ed. 1, p. 220. 

 Blitum tenue, Moq. in DC. Prodr., xiii. 2, p. 81 ; Gay, Fl. ChiL, v. p. 238. 

 Chenopodium tenue, Colla in Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxxix. p. 9, t. 50. 

 Ambrina tenuis, Moq., Chenop. Enurn., p. 42. 



Juan Fernandez. — In stony places — Bertero. 



A common plant in Chili and other parts of South America, as well as in more distant 

 regious. It is in none of the more recent collections, and is probably a colonist of casual 

 occurrence in the island. There is no doubt that Colla's Chenopodium tenue is this plant, 

 and just the ordinary form ; Bertero himself mistook it for the Paico or Payco, Cheno- 

 podium ambrosioides, Linn., a similar plant, now widely dispersed, and eaten as a vege- 

 table in South America. 



Salicornia peruviana, H. B. K. 



Salicornia peruviana, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp., ii. p. 193; Gay, Fl. ChiL, v. p. 245; DC, Prodr., 

 xiii. 2, [>. 145. 



Juan Fernandez. — In stony brackish places near El Puente — Bertero. Masafuera. 



— Germain. 



Apparently the same species that is common on the western coast of South America, 

 and perhaps only a form of a species having a much wider range of distribution ; but this 

 point can only be settled by a thorough investigation of the genus. 



[Bertero (Ann. Sc. Nat., xxi. p. 348) mentions a shrubby species ofAtriplex as growing 

 in Goat Island. It is the number 105 of Colla's Plantre Rariores (Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, 

 xxxix. p. 8), who describes the stems and leaves, but gives it no name beyond Atriplex ? 

 Bertero noted on his label " Caulis frutescens 3-4 pedalis, flores baud vidi."] 



