734 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



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solitary or capitate, not spicate, and never more than 5 in number ; allied 

 to a number all found in S. America ; whose only representative in the 

 Old World is this plant." (J. D. Hooker. Not known in America.) 



4. PLANTAGO CANDOLLEI Raf. 



Annual. Leaves long-lanceolate, entire or callous-toothed, acute, atten- 

 uate to a long petiole, 5-y-nerved, glabrous, the peduncles erect, as long 

 as the leaves, laxly pilose above. Spikes long, cylindrical, loose-flow- 

 ered below, the bracts carinate, lanceolate, acutish. Anterior calyx-leaves 

 united at the base, ovate, membranous-margined ; posterior broader, cari- 

 nate, denticulate, ciliolate. Corolla-lobes ovate-cordate. Capsule 3-seeded. 



(Chili); Patagon., near mouth of Rio Chubut. (Dusen.) 



5. P. (PLANTAGINELLA) CCELORHIZA Morris & Macloskie, n. s. 



(Plate XXV, Fig. C). 



Dwarf, cinereous undershrub, with hollow, conical caudex, crowned by 

 many-seriate, squarrose, rosulate, rigid, linear, sessile, entire leaves, these 

 mucronate, with siliceous spines, both sides with appressed bristles^ and the 

 bases hidden by long, silky hairs. Peduncles several, exceeding the leaves, 

 bristly, with i-flowered spikes. Bracts 2, triangular-ovate, shorter than the 

 broad-ovate sepals, and, like them, scarious, with herbaceous midribs. Pyxis 

 circumscissile, exceeding the calyx, long-beaked by the persisting stylobase. 

 Seeds probably 2. * 



S. Patagon., by Rio Coy. 



The type-specimen is no. 37 of the J. B. Hatcher collection in Prince- 

 ton University ; well characterized by its stiff, squarrose leaves, with long 



1 PLANTAGO ( PLANTAGINELLA) CCELORHIZA Macloskie & Morris, sp. nov. 

 Planta perennis pumila cinerea caudice cavo frutescente, dense et squarrose rosulato-foliifero, 

 unde plures pedunculi uniflori, in radictm cavum conicum deorsum transeuntes. Folia plurima, 

 squarrosa, crassiuscula, rigida, linearia, sessilia, basi scarioso lato, longa lana sericea occulto, 

 integerrima, 6-8 mm. longa, 1.5 mm. lata, utrinque setts rigidis brevibus adpressis obsita, apice 

 acuto, mucrone spiniformi siliceo munito. Pedunculi e superioribus axillis sursum adscendentes, 

 plures, rigidi, breviter folia superantes, 725 mm. alti, cinerei setis adpressis, spica uniflora. 

 Bractece binae, subaequas et oppositae ad summum pedunculum inserts, scariosae, costa angusta her- 

 bacea dimidium sepalorum paullo superantes, triangulo-ovatse, acutae, plus-minus 1.5 mm longae. 

 Flos unicus inter bracteas binas sessilis, sepalis scariosis, costa herbacea excepta, late-ovatis, acutis, 

 plus-minus 2 mm. longis. Pyxis tertia parte calycem superans, late-ovoideus, apice longo stylo- 

 basi persistente rogtrato, circumscissilis ad tertiam partem inferam, 2.5 mm. vel 2 mm. Semina 

 pauca, forsitan saepius bina. 



