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obovate, spreading, 10-20 cm.; 3-4 rays trichotomously branching; 

 branches and branchlets long, i-flowered. Valve solitary; no rudiment 

 W. Patagonia in the upper part of the Rio Aysen valley; S. Fuegia in 

 the valley of Rio Azopardo. D. 



A. NARDIFOLIA Gris. Macl., p. 189. (Not A. nardiflora.} 

 Is to be deleted, as it is identical with Calamagrostis nardifolia (Gris) 



Add Macl., p. 191 : 



A. PYROG^A Speg. var. MUTICA Hack. nov. var. 



A typo differt non solum aristae defectu, sed etiam spiculis nitente- 

 violaceis nee flavidulis. (Hackel.) 



S. Patagonia, in the heart of the Sta. Cruz Territory on an herbous 

 slope. 



Add Macl., p. 192: 



A. STOLONIFERA Linn. Sp. PL, Ed. I, p. 62, 1753. 



Syn. A. cczspitosa Gaud.; A. alba Schrad. Fl. Germ., I, p. 209; Hartman, 



Skand. fl. ed. X; fortasse etiam Linne Icon.; Fl. Dan., tab. 



1623; Ands, PL Scand. II, Gram., f. 109. 



The synonymy, excepting A. ccespitosa, accords with Sr. Murbeck in 

 Botaniska Notiser, Lund, 1898. 



Culm decumbent, branching, leafy, glabrous, jointed. Leaves broad, 

 scabrid both sides. Ligule oblong (multifid). Panicle coarctate; rays 

 semiverticillate, the lower more spreading, floriferous from base, and 

 flexuous; glumes obtuse, carinate (purpurascent), hoary outside; valves 

 shorter, obtuse, unequal. Falkland Is. 



Is the same with A. alba L. fide Skottsberg (Bot. Survey of Falklands). 

 "I follow Sr. Murbeck, who has given, in Botaniska Notiser, a definite 

 solution as to the systematic arrangement of the north-European species 

 of the genus. His paper was hitherto unknown to me. My reference is 

 to this paper of Murbeck, unfortunately written in Swedish. I quote the 

 complete synonymy of Murbeck," as to this species. 



In his dissertation " North American Species of Agrostis," A. S. 

 Hitchcock, from the single specimen in Linne's Herbarium of A. stolon- 

 ifera (which, according to a note in Linne's own handwriting, was found 



