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ceous, very shining, serrate, glabrous, the young gold-hairy on petiole 

 and nerves. Involucre of the female flowers sessile, the young with sca- 

 rious scales, enclosing Jive obtusely trigonal nutlets. Male flowers? 



S. Chili; Patagon. "Coihue" and " Roble." Except Cipres (Liboce- 

 drus] it constitutes almost exclusively the forests of Guaitecas and Chonos. 



(Ill) " Of doubtful place." (Reiche.) 



9. NOTHOFAGUS ALPiNA (Poepp. & Endl. sub Fagus}. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, basally rotundate, serrulate, rough on both 

 sides, ciliate, glutinous above. Involucral lobes ovate, dorsally and 

 marginally appendiculate ; the appendages incised or multifid, glandular. 



(S. Chili) ; Patagonia. 



(Not Fagtts alpina Poepp., of DC. Prodr., which is F. antarctica Forst.) 



Dusen gives the following species of Fagaceae as occurring in a fossil 

 condition in Fuegia or Patagonia : 



Fagus dicksoni Dus., at Barancas de Carmen Sylva, Fuegia. 



F. integrifolia Dus., at Barancas de Carmen Sylva, Fuegia. 



F. subferruginea Dus., at Barancas de Carmen Sylva and at Punta 

 Arenas. 



Notkofagus australis Dus., at Barancas, Rio Condor and Rio Guillermo. 



N. crenulata Dus., at Rio Guillermo. 

 . N. densi-nervosa Dus., at Barancas, Rio Condor and Rio Beta. 



N. elongata Dus., Barancas. 



N. lanceolata Dus., at Barancas, Rio Guillermo, Punta Arenas. 



N. magellanica Engelh., Barancas. 



N. cfr. obliqiia Mirb., Conception. 



N. serrulata Dus., Barancas and Punta Arenas. 



N. simplicidens Dus., at Barancas, Rio Condor, Punta Arenas. 



N. variabilis Dus. 



Family 24. URTICACE^E. Nettle Family. 



Usually herbs with watery sap, simple, alternate or opposite leaves, 

 mostly stipulate, and often with stinging hairs ; and clusters of small, sex- 

 ually distinct, apetalous flowers. Calyx 2-5-parted, stamens as many, 

 opposite its lobes. Filaments reflexed and anthers reversed in the bud. 



