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hermaphrodite, tubular, 5-toothed. Anthers tailless. Achenes oblong, 

 glandulous. Pales, of many-seriate pappus, lance-linear, serrulate. 

 Magellan, at Oazy Harbor, in mountainous parts. 



5- GUTIERREZIA GILLIESII Gris. 



Leaves linear, thick, membranous, green, glabrous, or minutely punctu- 

 late and viscous. Lower leaves larger, 3-nerved ; upper leaves fascicled 

 on the branches, linear-subulate, I -nerved. Flowers milky, 10 in ray, 12 

 in disk. PappHS-pales 12-14. Achenes 8-sulcate, villous. 



N. Patagon., by Rio Negro. 



6. G. HOFFMANNII O. Ktze. 



Low, cespitose, pigmy shrub, branching much, branches crowded, 4-8 

 cm. high, densely leafy. Leaves sessile, attenuate, deciduous, their imbri- 

 cating bases persisting. Upper leaves i cm. by 3-4 mm., glabrous, punc- 

 tate-viscous, rosulate at the apex of branches. Peduncle terminal, i- 

 headed, with 1-3 small bracts. //<?#*/ turbinate, without ligules. Involucre- 

 scales 15, in 3 series. Female flowers of ray 12, with oblong limbs; 

 interior flowers 20, hermaphrodite and tubular. Achenes turbinate, pilose. 

 Pappus-pales scarious, 15, fimbriate. 



Patagon. 



7. G. LINEARIFOLIA Lagasca 1816 (non Gray). 



Suffruticose, glabrous, resinous. Leaves 25 mm. long, or more; 

 scarcely 2 mm. broad, entire ; shorter upwards. (Mexico ; Chili) ; N. 

 Patagon. 



8. G. SPATULATA Phil. 



(Brachyris.} 



Subcespitose undershrub ; branches scaly at base. Leaves resinous, 

 punctate, marginally spinulose-ciliate, the lower spatulate. Corymbs 

 many-flowered. Heads mostly basi-bracteate. Ligules about 10; disk- 

 flowers the same number. Branches 20-25 cm. long; lower leaves 15 

 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. Pedicels i o mm. Pales of achene 8. 



(Mexico ; Chili) ; N. Patagon. 



7. HYSTERIONICA Willd. 



Herbs or undershrubs, mostly hispid or ciliate. Leaves basal, mostly 

 narrow and entire. Heads rather large, radiate and heterogamous, yel- 



