386 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



1. ALSINE AXILLARIS (Phil.). 



Glabrous, branching, cespitose, 20 mm. high, internodes twice as long 

 as the linear leaves, which are attenuate both ways. Peduncles axillary, 

 i -flowered, equalling the leaf. Petals narrow, bifid, equalling the ovate- 

 oblong sepals. Capsiile scarcely exceeding the calyx. 



(N. Chili) ; E. Fuegia. 



2. A. BOREALIS (Bigel.) Brit. 



Weak ; much branched, Leaves lanceolate, or broader, 1 2-36 mm. 

 long, acute, sessile. Cyme leafy. Flowers 4-8 mm. broad. Petals 2-5, 

 shorter than the sepals, or none. Capsules exceeding the sepals. Seeds 

 smooth. 



(Eurasia; N. United States) ; S. Patagon., Killik Aike by Rio Gallegos. 

 (J. B. Hatcher, Dec. 13, 1896.) 



3. A. CHUBUTENSIS (Speg. sub Stellaria}. 



Slender, green, glabrous annual, 1-5 cm. high, decumbent or ascending. 

 Leaves i -nerved, linear, the lower obtusish, the others rather acute, about 

 half as long as the internodes or more. Flowers erect, lateral or terminal, 

 with pedicel as long, or twice as long as the subtending leaf. Sepals 

 green, rather rigid, lanceolate, 3-nerved, acute. Petals white, bifid Irom 

 the base, the segments narrow-linear, not or scarcely as long as the sepals. 



Patagonia, in shady woods near Carren-leofu. 



4. A. DEBILIS (d'Urv.). 



Glabrous. Stems slender, prostrate, lax-cespitose, divaricately branching. 

 Leaves flaccid, linear-lanceolate, subacute, 3-nerved ; their margins finely 

 cartilaginous, entire. Peduncles solitary in the axils, i -flowered, shorter 

 than the leaves. Petals shorter than the sepals. Caps^tle exserted. 



Patagonia, by Rio Chico ; Falklands ; Staaten I. ; N. and E. Fuegia. 

 (Dusen, " in steppe-flora, especially in swamps.") " Allied to a Tasmanian 

 species." (J. D. Hooker.) 



A. DEBILIS CONDENSATA (A. Gray). 



Leaves narrow-linear to almost filiform, slightly revolute. 

 Orange Harbor, Fuegia. 



