794 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



sessile amid the leaves, mid-size. Involucral scales several-seriate, acute, 

 attenuate, villous-woolly. Marginal flowers pink-whitish ; central yellow. 

 S. Patagon., by Lago Argentine. 



9. ERIGERON GAYANUS Remy. (E. gayanus leptophyllus Speg.) 

 Stem leafy, 10-20 cm. high, i -headed or 3-6-headed. Leaves linear, 

 glabrate, the radical leaves longer and broader. Heads short-peduncled ; 

 pedicels hoary. Iwvohtcral scales hispid, colored. Ligules whitish, not 

 long. Achenes hairy, shorter than the scarcely rufescent pappus. 

 (Chili) ; Patagon. by Rio Chubut ; Lago Musters. 



10. E. GLABRIFOLIUS DC. 



Shrubby rootstock, nearly stemless, glabrous. Radical leaves linear- 

 oblong, basally attenuate ; cauline few, semiamplexicaul ; all entire, acute. 

 Stem ascending, i-headed. Involucral scales equalling the disk, oblong, 

 obtuse, appressed ; ligules twice as long as the disk. 5-7 cm. tall. 



(Chili) ; Fuegia, rare on margins of mountain lakes. 



II. E. IBARI Phil. 



Cespitose, glabrous. Radical leaves long, linear, 6 cm. by 4 mm., 

 narrowing to a petiole, rather obtuse ; cauline leaves sessile, long-acumi- 

 nate. Stem erect, about ^-headed, equalling the radical leaves to thrice 

 as long. Heads 13 mm. diam. Involucral leaves hispid, green. 



Magellan, near Skyring Water. 



12. E. LACARENSIS Phil. 



Hirsute perennial. Stem erect, 20-30 cm. high, about j-keaded. Radi- 

 cal leaves crowded, elongate, linear, attenuate to a long petiole. Cauline 

 leaves becoming shorter. Heads short-pediceled, 15 mm. diam. Invo- 

 lucral scales narrowly linear, hispid. Ligules purple, slightly exceeding 

 the disk. 



(Andes); Valdivia; Magellan. (Dusen.) 



13. E. LECHLERI Sch. Bip. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, 45 cm., leafy, purplish, hispid, paniculately 

 corymbose. Leaves linear-lanceolate, hirtellate, toothed, with incurved 

 tips of teeth. Heads campanulate, 5-7 mm. diam., numerous, crowded. 



