MACLOSKIE : FAGACE^E. 



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Patagon.; S. Fuegia (Dusen); S. Patagon., by Hatcher. (Hatcher's 

 specimen bore the moss Dicranum cirrhifolium C. Muell.) W. Patagon. 

 "forming groves by the river Aysen, up to an elevation of 1,000 meters, 

 and up to 1,300 meters as mere shrubs growing in thickets." (Dusen.) 



(II) Leaves not plicate, mostly evergreen. 



6. NOTHOFAGUS BETULOiDES (Mirb.) Blume. 



Leaves plane, ovate or elliptical, obtuse or subacute, their base un- 

 equally acute or obtuse, coriaceous, evergreen, FlG 6l 

 crenate-serrate, glabrous, short-petiolate, glan- 

 dulous-punctate underneath. Male flowers soli- 

 tary, very short-pediceled, perianth broad-fun- 

 nelform, obtusely 4~7-lobed, anthers callously 

 mucronulate. Fruits solitary, axillary, lobes of 

 the 4-partite involucre oblong with erect fili- 

 form segments as long as the nucules (Fig. 61). 



South Chili and S. Patagon., through Fuegia 

 to Cape Horn, very abundant; the common 

 evergreen beech of Fuegia. Fuegian name, 

 "Ouchpaya." The coasts of West Magellan 

 are covered by this and Drimys winteri. 

 (Dusen.) By Hatcher in the Cordilleras of 

 S. Patagon., bearing the parasitical Myzodendron 

 pitnctnlatum. Feb. 18. "Bark smooth, gray." 

 Staaten I. ; West Patagon. at a high elevation. ' 



Nothofagus 



betuloides. Leaf- 

 flower (on right), 



and pistillate flower (on left). 



(After Flora antarctica. ) 



7. N. DOMBEYI (Mirb.) Oerst. 



Leaves plane, evergreen, elliptical-ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse both 

 ways, coriaceous, serrate, glabrous, short-petiolate. Staminal clusters 

 much shorter than the leaves. Fruits solitary, axillary ; the lobes of the 

 4-partite involucre oblong, 2-3-laciniate, shorter than the nuts. 



South Chili, valuable wood, "coique." Patagon., Chubut; in Prae- 

 andine woods near Rio Carren-Leofu. 



8. N. NITIDA Phil. 



Branchlets cinereous, the season's with dense, short, golden hairs, ap- 

 pressed upwards. Leaves short-petiolate, most ovate-lanceolate, coria- 



