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Magellan ; Fuegia, passim ; S. Patagon., by Lago Argentine and Rio 

 Gallegos ; Falklands. "Abounds in sandy beaches, chiefly in the eastern 

 parts." 



A specimen in the Gray Herbarium has leaves very broad and woolly, 

 the lower leaves subcordate, 12 cm. broad, on a 17 cm. petiole. 



13. SEXECIO CANDOLLEANUS (Hook. & Arn.) O. Ktze. 



Corymbed. Slirub white-tomentose, velvety. Leaves with flat petiole, 

 broadly ovate in outline, deeply pinnatifid, the segments 6-7, broadly 

 linear, patent, acutish, slender-costate. Heads few. Involucres broad, 

 densely woolly; the scales about 18, obtuse, shorter than the corolla. 



(Argentina); coast of Patagon. "Leaves like a coarse Artemisia" ; 

 occasionally with some entire. 



14. S. CARICIFOLIUS (Hook. & Arn.). 



Compact corymb. Shrubby, white, tomentose at first, less crowded 

 near the flowers, becoming glabrous. Brandies fasciculate, long. Leaves 

 linear-subulate, acute, entire, margin revolute. Involucre brown, cylin- 

 draceous, calyculate, its scales 10-12, narrow-linear, shining. 



(Bahia Blanca) ; N. Patagon. ; S. Patagon., by RR. Gallegos and Sta. 

 Cruz. 



15. S. CERATOPHYLLUS D. Don. 



Heads solitary on few-leaved, angulate branches. Undershrnbs webby, 

 with deciduous wool. Leaves linear-spatulate, mucronate, plane, 3- 

 toothed at apex, or the uppermost entire. Involucre campanulate, its 

 scales subulate, few-bracteolate, not apically sphacelate. Ligules about 14, 

 broad-linear. 



(Chili; Brazil); Patagon., Magellan. 



A var. with larger branches and leaves, the uppermost leaves entire. 



1 6. S. CHILENSIS Less. (S. ceratophylloides Gris.) 

 Heads terminal, solitary, erect. Much branching and ascending. 



"\Yhite-tomentose. Leaves sessile, linear-entire. Involucre campanulate ; 



its scales i -seriate, narrowly linear, acuminate, non-sphacelate. Ligules 



4-nerved, 3-toothed. 



(N. Patagon., " Leaves rather larger than in Grisebach's description, to 



68 mm. "); S. and W. Patagon., in Valley of Rio Aysen (Dusen). 



