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cent ; leaf-scars on base of branches. Leaves sessile in outline, narrowly 

 linear to oblanceolate, acute, entire, or mostly 3-(5~) pinnately parted 

 next their apex. Peduncles with several short, acute bracts. Involucre 

 campanulate, its scales 20, linear-oblong, acute, white margined, with an 

 oily vitta. Flowers perfect, their tubular corollas yellow, enlarged up- 

 wards. Style-branches truncate. Achenes glabrous. Pappus white. 



(S. Patagon., by O. Nordenskjold in valley of Rio Gallegos) ; E. Fue- 

 gia (Dusen). "Yellow in bloom, all along the Andes, abundant" 

 (Hatcher). 



SENECIO NORDENSKJOLDII SIMPLICIOR O. Hoffm. 

 Lower than the type, with some leaves 3-toothed, but most entire. 

 E. Fuegia, by the sea-coast (Dusen). 



67. S. OTITES G. Kuntze. 



Corymb large, compound. Heads nearly discoid. Glabrous herbs, 

 with terete, striate, branching stem. Leaves with a broad, rounded, toothed 

 auricle at base of the petiole, lamina broad-lanceolate, dentate, basally 

 cordate or truncate. Pedicels sparsely bracteolate upwards. Involucre 

 with 8-9 scales, not ustulate. Ligules 5, oval-oblong. Disk-flowers 15- 

 20. Achenes glabrous. 



(S. Chili); W. Patagon. 



68. S. PACHYPHYLLUS Remy (non Cheesem.). 



Heads i-few on branches nearly naked above. Glabrous shrubs, with 

 stem branching and rooting, branches leafy at the middle. Leaves sessile, 

 oblong-linear, coarsely subcylindrical, entire, acute. Peduncles few-bracted. 

 Involucre subcalyculate, ovoid-campanulate, its scales oblong-linear, sca- 

 rious-margined, shorter than the disk. Achenes glabrous, costate. 



(Talcaragua) ; S. Patagon., in Cordilleras, by Hatcher. A specimen in 

 the Gray Herbarium, bears a note "Leaves slightly broader and heads 

 larger"; the same is true of the Hatcher specimen. Professor O. Hoff- 

 mann confirms this identification, having compared Hatcher's plant with 

 the description and with a specimen in 'the Berlin Museum, which was 

 collected by Philippi. 



69. S. PALEN^E Phil. 



Corymb with about 5 heads. White, silky herb. Leaves narrow-linear, 



