358 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



ing, green, not or very obscurely farinose, 3-nerved, subrhombic-lanceo- 

 late, 3-lobed ; lobes all acute, lateral, small, cuneate downwards. Racemes 

 leafless, divaricately cymose, dichotomous. Printing calyx subpatent; 

 sepals acute, and very acutely carinate. Utricle rather large, subglobose. 

 Seed horizontal, pallid-ferruginous, rather large, globose to sublenticular, 

 with the margin broadly truncate, rostellate, not or scarcely shining, obso- 

 letely and laxly subpapillose. 



S. Patagon., in dry places near Rio Chico about Emelk-aike. Seed as 

 in C. purpurascens Jacq. 



4. CHENOPODIUM ANTARCTICUM Benth. & Hook. (Hook. f. sub Blitum.} 



Stem prostrate-ascending, papillose. Leaves petiolate, deltoid-ovate, 

 rather obtuse, sinuate-toothed. Glomerules sessile, compound, axillary 

 and in a leafy terminal spike. Sepals 3, green, at length changing, ex- 

 ceeding the utricle, linear-spatulate, externally papulate. Seed vertical, 

 orbicular, pitted, with obtuse margin. 



S. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz. (Hatcher; "Fruiting perianth scarcely 

 papulate, short") Staaten I.. E. Fuegia. (Dusen.) 



5. C. BOTRYS Linn. 



Annual herb, with erect stem and sulcate, angulate branches. Leaves 

 long-petioled, ascending, oblong, obtuse, subpinnatifid-sinuate, with obtuse 

 lobules, glaucous-green, glandular hairy on both surfaces ; upper leaves 

 spatulate-lanceolate, subentire ; uppermost as narrow bracts. Racemes 

 divaricate, cymose, leafless. Fruiting calyx not closed nor keeled. Seed 

 marginally obtuse, fine-channeled, smooth. 



(Eurasia; naturalized in N. Amer.); Magellan, once at Elizabeth I.; 

 these with lower leaves hastate-triangular, as if a depauperate C. chilensis 

 Schrad. 



6. C. CARNOSULUM DC. 



Stem slender, erect, striate, branching. Leaves petiolate, minute (6-8 

 mm. long, the petiole included), rhombic, entire, subcarnose, furfuraceous- 

 punctulate, pale green. Flowers minute, in short, dense, leafy racemes. 

 Fruiting calyx subcarinate, incompletely closed. 



Fuegia, Gregory Bay. (R. O. Cunningham.) 



