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LATHYRUS MAGELLANICUS GLADIATUS (Hook.) O. Ktze. 



Leaflets very narrow, acuminate. 

 Patagon. 



L. MAGELLANICUS GLAUCESCENS SpCg. 



Plant green-glaucescent, not black in drying. Leaflets often elliptical- 

 mucronulate, nervulose. 



S. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz, R. Gallegos. 



L. MAGELLANICUS OXYPHYLLUS Speg. 



Low, glabrous, green-glaucescent. Stipules sagittate, elongate. Leaf- 

 lets i pair, lanceolate or longer, long-mucronate. 

 At Killik Aike, by Barnum Brown. 



L. MAGELLANICUS SUBSESSILIFOLIUS O. Ktze. 



Petioles of all the leaves 5 mm. long. 

 Patagon. 



6. L. MARITIMUS Big. 



Glabrous, stout, decumbent; stems angulate. Stipules large, semi- 

 hastate. Leaves subsessile, cirrhi branched. Leaflets 3-6 pairs, oblong- 

 obovate, mucronulate. Pedtincles short, with 6-10 purple flowers. Le- 

 gume linear-oblong, veiny. 



(Eurasia and N. Amer.); Cape Tres Montes. 



7. L. NERVOSUS Lam. 



Glabrous. Stems subsimple, striate. Petioles very short ; cirrhi trifid ; 

 stiptiles sagittate, nervose. Leaflets i pair, ovate-acute, veiny, exceeding 

 the internodes. Peduncles many-flowered. Legumes linear, long, gla- 

 brous. 



(Montevideo); S. Patagon., Valley of Rio Gallegos (Nordenskj.) ; var. 

 by Rio Sta. Cruz. 



8. L. PRATENSIS Linn. 



Weak, straggling perennial, mostly glabrous. Stems sharply angulate. 

 Stipitles lanceolate to semisagittate, nearly as long as the leaflets. Leaf- 

 lets i pair, linear-oblong, acute. Cirrhus simple or branched. Racemes 



