3O2 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



cent; the inner longer, carinate, awned, fimbriate, twice as long as the 

 round, triangular, obtuse capsule. 



Magellan and S. Patagon., mouth of Rio Gallegos (Dusen), pampas at 

 Coy Inlet (O. A. Peterson). Fuegia, Ushuaia to Cape Horn ; Falklands. 



2. J. ANTARCTICUM (Hook. f. Sub 



Small, cespitose. Culm 5 cm. high, slender, filiform, arcuate or erect. 

 Leaves broad-linear-subulate, ciliate at the base. Panicle small, ovoid, 

 woolly, nodding; bracteoles and tepals subequal, the margins hyaline, 

 lacerate, scarious above, colored below. Capsule elliptical, half as long 

 as the tepals. Stigmas 3, sessile-filiform. 



Magellan and W. Magellan (Dusen) ; to high altitudes ; S. Fuegia to 

 Cape Horn. 



Tepals larger than in J, alopecurus. 



3. J. PATAGONICUM (Speg. sub Luzulo}. 



Stem 20-40 cm. high, fistulous, its base fasciculate-leafy, i leaf at its 

 midpart, the leaves grass-like, subglabrous, with callous apex. Inflo- 

 rescence erect ; spikes short and thick, more or less remote. Tepals sub- 

 equal, the outer 3 lanceolate, awned, membranous, fuscous, the inner 3 

 obtusely acute, subhyaline. Fruit trigonal-ovate, just exceeding the 

 perianth. 



S. Patagon., by Lago Argentine. (By J. B. Hatcher in S. Patagon., 

 only 10 cm. high.) 



4. J. PUMILUM (Hook, sub Luzula\ 



Small, densely tufted, nearly glabrous, 30-60 cm. high. Leaves slen- 

 der, shorter than culms, 12-25 mm - l n g linear-subulate, obtuse, coria- 

 ceous, convex on back. Culm naked, 25-50 mm. Flowers in a small, 

 4-io-flowered head, 2 mm. long. Bracts ovate, the edges ragged. Tepals 

 subulate or lanceolate, long-acuminate, chestnut-brown, twice as long as 

 the black capsule. 



(New Zeal., alpine) ; Fuegia. 







5. J. RACEMOSUM (Desv. sub Luzula\ 



Root fibrous, bulbous-thickened, cespitose. Citlm 30-70 cm. high, 

 erect, leafy. Leaves plane or somewhat canaliculate, linear, acuminate, 



