FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA AND THE PACIFrC. 343 



lucri campanulati basi acuti calyculati foliolis 16 dense 

 tomentosis subulatis apicibus nutlis nigro-sphacelatip. — Cine- 

 aria ; Poepp Senecio micropifolius, ,o. monocephalus, Z)f;. 



Prodr. vi. p. 413 Culcitium candidum, Don, msf. — Cerro 



de la Polcura ; Andes of Mendoza ; Dr Gillies — Root some- 

 what fusiform, woody. Stems severed from the summit of the 

 root, 4 — 6 inches high, clothed in the lower half with leaves 

 an inch long, above, naked and pedunculiform, bearing a soli- 

 tary capitulum and a few linear bracteas. Corollas numerous, 

 about as long as the involucre and the pappus. It seems to 

 be the S. micropifolius, 13. monocephalus of De Candolle. 



2049.(43.) S. Magel/anicus, (H. etA.); herbaceus seri- 

 ceo-tomentosus, caule erecto scapiformi monocephalo foliis 

 radicalibus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis inferne attenuatis 

 basi longissime lateque membranaceo-vaginantibus, caulinis 

 remotis linearibus, involucri lato-campanulati calyculati foli- 

 olis sub-20 dense sericeo-tomentosis lineari-lanceolatis apici- 

 bus sphacelatis. — Cape Negro, Straits of Magellan ; C. Dor- 

 u-in, Esq., {n. 367). Port Famine, Patagonia; Capt. King's 



Voyage This, and the two preceding, have a good deal the 



appearance of Cnlcitia. The present one is about a foot 

 hio^h, with long narrow radical leaves which have singularly 

 long sheathing bases, and a scapiform stem. Capitulum 

 about an inch in diameter. 



2050. (44.) S. Gilliesii, (H. et A.); canescens arach- 

 noideo-lanatus lana denium decidua caule paucifolio scapi- 

 formi mono-dicephalo, foliis radicalibus ovali-oblongis crasso- 

 carnosis dentatis in petiolum longum attenuatis caulinis sessi- 

 libus superioribus linearibus ; capitulis magnis, involucri 

 lato-campanulati calyculati foliolis sub-30 lineari-acuminatis 

 vix sphacelatis. — Culcitium dentatum, Doji, mst — Valle del 

 Rio Atuel and Cerro de la Polcura ; Dr Gillies. — A fine and 

 very distinct species, with a fusiform root and rather stout, 

 herbaceous and apparently succulent scapiform stem, ten 

 inches high. Leaves thick and fleshy ; radical ones numerous, 

 including the flattened petiole, cauline ones small, distant. 

 Capitula an inch and a half across. The whole plant appears 



