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ON THE PLANTS CULTIVATED OK NATURALIZED IN 
THE VALLEY OE CARACAS, AND THEIR VERNA- 
CULAR NAMES. 
By A. Ernst, Esq. 
W 
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Phytogeographical data :— Caracas, 10° 30' 50" N. lat. ; 66 55 
2921 feet (English) or 890*3 metres above the 
level of the Caribbean Sea. Soil rather poor, little irrigated by a few 
small rivers (Guaire, Caroata, Anauco, Gamboa, Catuche, Tocurae). 
Meteorological Elements, I860.* 
Month. 
January 
February 
March 
April 
May . 
June . 
July . 
August 
September 
October . 
November 
December 
Thermometer. I Barometer. 
Centigr. Fahren.l French mm. English 
2071 
20-20 
20-80 
2334 
23-27 
22-45 
22-40 
22-57 
2250 
22*28 
21-22 
21-32 
69*28 
68-36 
69-41 
74-01 
73-88 
72-41 
72-32 
72-62 
75-50 
7210 
70-19 
70-37 
68455 
684-85 
684*41 
68f66 
68516 
684*93 
685-06 
684-65 
684*45 
684-20 
68401 
684*53 
26"ll-52 
26 11*66 
26 11-45 
26 1157 
26 1180 
26 1171 
26 1176 
26 11*56 
26 1147 
26 11-36 
26 11*26 
26 1151 
Hvgrom 
Sauss. 
71*64 
66-00 
7270 
7310 
68*00 
6865 
72-80 
7590 
76*40 
76-90 
76*50 
73-85 
i 
Rain, 
•netres. inches 
0-004 
0-16 
o-ooo 
o-oo 
0*017 
0-67 
0-085 
3-25 
0012 
0-47 
0093 
366 
0113 
445 
0111 
437 
0-206 
812 
0142 
559 
0096 
3-78 
0-002 
0-08 
Mean temperature, 21-92° C. or 71-45° E. 
Mean barometer, 684-63 mm. or 26" ll*55.t 
Mean degree of humidity, 72-70° ^Iygrom. Saussure). 
Quantity of rain in 1860, 0-881 m. = 34" 8-5'".: 
I. Cultivated Plants.§ 
A. Plants cultivated on account of their roots, bulbs or tubers. 
Solatium tuberosum, L. — The Quechne name of the plant, pap a - ^ 
now used in all Hispano- American countries. The c Papa crio 
* Anuario de Observaciones de la Oficina central del Colegio de Ingenieros 
Venezuela para el ario de 1862. Caracas, 1861, p. 173. . , ^e 
t The English barometer has been calculated from the French one, win 
tables published by Mr. F. F. Tuckett, in the ■ Reader/ December, i° 
J Nearly the same quantity as in Liverpool (0*874 m. = 34"5'2 ). 
Mueller, ■ Kosmische Physik,' 1856, p. 411. , ,, • 1 \{ x9 
§ I have followed the arrangement adopted by Alphonse De Canclone 
classical ' Geographic Botanique Raisonnee,' Paris, 1855, 2 vols. bvo. 
