230 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



P. 711, after line 4, add the species: 



3. PETUNIA PARVIFLORA Juss. 



Prostrate annual herb, with many stems from the root, green white, long 

 branches. Leaves oblong-spathulate, or oblong-linear, basi-attenuate, sub- 

 sessile. Flowers short-peduncled, axillary, or opposite the leaves, or ter- 

 minal. Calyx segments basi-attenuate, spathulate, obtuse, spreading. 

 Corolla funnel-form, scarcely larger than the calyx. 



Mexico ; Brazil ; Mid-Patagonia, Puerto Madryn. 



NIEREMBERGIA Ruiz et Pav. 

 P. 711: 



N. HIPPOMANICA Miers. 



As far as I know, not found in our district. D. 



N. PATAGONICA Speg. 



S. Patagonia, not rare in the steppe; found by me at Richmond (not 

 far from Sta. Cruz Emporium), in the central part of the Sta. Cruz Terri- 

 tory, in the upper valley of Rio Sta. Cruz, near Lago Argentine, in the 

 valley of Rio Leona, at Lago Viedma, in the mountains between Lago 

 Viedma and Laguna Tar, near Lago San Martin, between Arroyo Scheuen 

 and Rio Sta. Cruz at Manantias de la Trompa and in the valley of Arroyo 



Scheuen. D. 



BENTHAMIELLA Speg. 



P. 712: Add after line 13: 



6. B. AZORELLOIDES Speg. Spegazzini, Nov. Add. Flor. 



Patag., II, p. 53. 

 Mid-Patagonia, between Lago Musters and Colu-huapi. 



7. B. MONTANA Dus. Dusen, Neue und Seltene Gefasspfl., p. 35, Taf. 4, 



Fig. 3, and Taf. 8, Fig. 33-35- 



Fruticulus dense pulvinatus, pulvinulis fere, subhemisphaericis, ad 2.5 dm. 

 usque diam., radice robusta, superne, 1.0-2.0 cm. crassa; rami 1.0-1.5 dm. 

 longi, dichotome ramosi, apice fasciculatim ramulosi, ramulis fastigiatis, 

 superne dense imbricatim foliosis, deorsum foliis emortuis dense vestitis ; 

 folia parva, linearia, 6.0-7.0 mm. longa, c. i.o mm. lata, fere ad apicem 

 subcanaliculata, carnosa, apice crassiora, basi membranacea, subhyalina, 

 ceterum viridia, truncata, integerrima, glaberrima, marginibus pectinatim 



