196 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



2. BOLAX GLEBARIA Comm. 



Syn. Azorella glebaria (Comm.) A. Gray. Described, with the 

 distribution, in Fl. Pat., p. 628, no. 9. 



It occurs throughout Patagonia, except the southern parts; in the 

 mountains it is found somewhat below, but principally above the upper 

 forest line ; never in the steppes. Also in Fuegia, and Falkland Is. 



Add Macl., p. 643 : 



LARETIA Gill, et Hook. 



Calyx-teeth prominent. Petals apically inflexed, very imbricate. Disk 

 thick, depressed. Fruit dorsally compressed, mid contracted. Carpels 

 discoid, the face slightly convex, the back concave or plane. Jugae slender, 

 the lateral pair marginal. Carpophore undivided. Seed straight, flat 

 dorsad. Leaves rosulate, entire, with entire sheath. Herb with short 

 caespitose stem ; simple sessile, many-flowered umbels. Involucre of 

 bracts. Fruit proportionately large. 



L. ACAULIS (Cav.) Gill, et Hook. 



Only species in Engl. & Prantl, III (8), 133, fig., making a cushion, in 

 the Cordillera, at 3000 m. elevation. 



Stem low, densely caespitose ; leaves rosulate, the upper small, scarious, 

 involucral. Umbels simple, sessile. Calyx-teeth prominent; petals 

 inflexed at top ; fruit with very narrow commissures ; carpels discoid, 

 faces subconcave. Carpophores undivided. 



Only species in Chili. Central Chili, in the Cordillera; S. Patagon., 

 Rio Sta. Cruz, and Arroyo Scheuen, on the river banks. 



Fam. 83. ERICACEAE. Macl., p. 644. 



P. 646, 647 : 



The cuts on these two pages are transposed. That with Pernettya 

 empetrifolia represents/ 1 , mucronata, and conversely. (G. M.) Pernettya 

 empetrifolia Gaud, is only a synonym of P. pumila (L. fil.) Hook, (fide 

 Skottsberg). 



I am not well up myself in the study of the genera belonging to this 

 family, and a thorough revisal of Macloskie's representation of the species 

 must therefore be omitted, the more so as the material at hand is very 



