310 ROWLEE: PLANTS FROM SOUTHERN PATAGONIA 
the Gallegos and Santa Cruz Rivers. It is upon this grass that 
the great herds of Patagonian sheep feed.”’ 
17. FESTUCA PURPURASCENS Banks & Sol.; Hooker, FI. Ant. 2: 
383. pl. 140. 1847. 
18. PoA PriTtcHARDI Rendle, Jour. Bot. 42: 324. 1904. 
From Mt. Buenos Aires, the locality where the type was 
collected. 
19. POA ARGENTINA Speg. Rev. Agron. i Vet. La Plata 1897: 
584. 
The type was collected at Lake Argentine. It belongs to 
the sect. Dioicopoa of Hackel (Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzen- 
fam. 2°: 73. 1888). Only the staminate plant appears in this 
collection. : 
20. POLYPOGON INTERRUPTUS H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. I: 109% 
pl. 44. 1815. 
Awns longer and spike more compact than is represented in 
the original figures. 
21. STIPA POGONATHERA Desv.; C. Gay, Fl. Chil. 6: 277. 1853 
CYPERACEAE 
. CAREX Banxsut Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: 119. 1846. 
CAREX INCONSPICUA Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 221. 1855. 
Culms 25 cm. high. 
Nov 
oN 
JUNCACEAE 
24. LUZULA CHILENSIS Nees & Meyen; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 3: 312: 
1841. 
LILIACEAE 
25. LuzurIAGA MARGINATA (Banks & Sol.) Benth. & Hook. Gen. 
Fi. 3;-768. 7883. 
Enargea marginata Banks & Sol.; Gaertner, De Fruct. I; 
283. 01. 50. f. 2. (1788. 
AMARYLLIDACEAE 
. ALSTROEMERIA NANA Rendle, Jour. Bot. 42: 325. 1904: 
