39 2 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



4- COLOBANTHUS CRASSIFOLIUS Hook. f. 



Glabrous, thickish, stems numerous, erect, branching. Leaves linear, 

 obtuse or mucronate, sheathing at base. Peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves, elongating in fruit. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 equalling or exceeding the 5-valved capsule. Seeds dark-red, pubescent. 



Falklands, Magellan to Cape Horn. S. Patagon. by Rio Gallegos. 

 (Nordenskj., "by brooks, etc., over the steppes.") Fuegia, common near 

 the coast. 



C. CRASSIFOLIUS ARETIOIDES (Gill.). 



Root fleshy. Calyx 5-parted, the segments ovate. Capsule exceeding 

 the calyx. 



5. C. LYCOPODIOIDES Griseb. (C. lechleri Phil. C. polycnemoides Hier.) 

 Densely tufted, smooth, coriaceous. Stems erect, branching, the 



branches spreading. Leaves small, ovate-lanceolate, united at the base ; 



acute-concave above. Peduncles terminal, i-2-flowered, shorter than the 



leaves, not elongated in fruit. Flowers 5-merous, very small, axillary. 



Sepals acute, twice as long as the 5-valved capsule. Forming dense peat. 

 (Andes) ; S. Patagon. ; Magellan, Elizabeth I. N. Fuegia. 

 (C. muscoides from Auckland Isles has fine moss-like leaves.) 



6. C. QUITENSIS Bartl. 



Plant corticose, extensive hard turf springing from thick roots. Leaves 

 in radical rosettes, very narrow-linear, acute, spiny-tipped, rather fleshy: 

 2 cm. long. Peduncles longer, twice-jointed in the lower part. Flowers 

 5-merous. Sepals acute. Seeds on a long funicle. 



(Asia ; Arctic America ; Rocky Mts. ; Cordilleras) ; Cabo Negro and 

 Rio Coy. (Hatcher.) 



C. QUITENSIS var. Harder cespitose. Leaves shorter, equalling the 

 peduncles. 



(Rocks of Chiloe) ; Magellan. 



7. C. SUBULATUS (d'Urv. sub Sagina] Hook. f. 



Low, bushy, like Lycopodium. Stem covered by the imbricated leaves, 

 which are linear-subulate or linear-lanceolate. Sepals lance-acuminate. 

 Capsule 2-5 mm. long, ovoid, /j.-5-valved, the valves apically recurved. 



S. Patagon.; Magellan, N. and S. Fuegia (Dusen, "near Ushuaia at 

 500-1,000 m. above the sea.") 



