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2. STATICE BELLA (Alboff. sub Armeria}. 



Cespitose, 5-10 cm. high. Rhizome vertical, multicipital ; the stem- 

 bases amid dead leaves. Leaves narrower than the scape, i -nerved, 

 dilated at base, glabrous or subciliolate. Scapes low, one and one half as 

 high as the leaves, pubescent. Heads elegant, red, variegated with gold 

 and white. Involucre red, its outer bracts obtuse, inner bracts longer and 

 gold-edged. Calyx obconical, pilose on nerves. Corolla segments lance- 

 olate-spatulate or oblong. Heads spherical. 



Fuegia, alpine above Ushuaia. 



3. S. CHILENSIS (Boiss. sub Armeria}. (S. cespitosa Poir.) 



With many heads; sheaths of dead leaves crowding at base. Leaves 

 linear-setaceous, narrower than the tall, slender scape ; flexuose, i -nerved, 

 striate when dry, usually glabrous. Involucral leaves scarious, pale 

 brown, the lowest narrow, acute. 



(Chilian Mts.) ; Chubut; S. Patagon., by O. A. Peterson, on pampas by 

 Coy Inlet, Nov. 13; by J. B. Hatcher at Cabo Negro, Jan. 13. (Non- 

 puberulous.) 



S. CHILENSIS MAGELLANICA (Boiss). 



Puberulous. 



Patagon., at mouth of Rio Chubut; valley of Rio Gallegos (Nor- 

 denskj.) ; W. Patagon., by Rio Aysen and Lago Nahuel-huapi (Dusen) ; 

 Magellan ; Fuegia to Cape Horn ; Staaten Is. Most of the genus in the 

 Magellan lands belong to this variety. 



4. S. MACLOVIANA (Cham, sub Armeria]. 



Glabrous ; the root producing a few leafy-sheathed rosules, leaves fleshy, 

 linear, as broad as the scape, plane, obtuse, i -nerved. Scape low, thick- 

 ish, outer involucral leaves very broad, herbaceous, triangular-ovate ; inner 

 ones rounded, broad-scarious. 



Falklands (referred to Statice armeria by Hooker f., which is unknown 

 in Antarctic Amer.) ; S. Patagon., at Coy Inlet (Peterson) ; Killik Aike 

 (B. Brown, Dec. 25, 1899.) 



5 S. PATAGONICA (Phil.). 



Cespitose. Leaves hirtellate, shorter and narrower than the rather 

 long scape. Involucral leaves membranous, red ; the lowest ovate, sub- 



