MACLOSKIE I COMPOSITE. 865 



(Chili); N. Patagon.; widely spread there and northward. " Tschitri 

 kekelu" and "Herba del Perdice" (Food of Rhea) ; S. Patagon., by the 

 East Coast; by Hatcher on the Cordilleras, Feb. 1897. 



5. CHUQUIRAGA HYSTRIX D. Don. (including Flotovia hystrix, Wedd. Chi. 



And. i, 6). 



Larger and stronger than C. erinacea. Leaves glabrous, broader below, 

 with sharp, brown point, pricking like needles, easily falling off the dry 

 specimen. No other spines. Heads axillary, many-flowered. Invohi- 

 cral scales with somewhat webby margins. 



Patagon., "its North limit is South of the Rio Negro. Very common 

 thence to Rio Chubut." By Hatcher in Cordilleras of S. Patagon. Like 

 the preceding it is called " Herba del Perdice." 



6. C. KINGII Ball. 



Axillary spines very small. Lateral nerves of leaves obsolete. Invo- 

 lucral scales rather broad, submuticous, with a cartilaginous apex ; inner 

 scales yellow. Otherwise as C. spinosa. 



N. Patagon., to south of Rio Chubut. Indian name " Amtraotrac- 

 tschic." 



7. C. PATAGONICA Phil. 



Pubescent annual. Leaves alternate, linear, nervose, plane, mucronate, 

 spinose ; 28 by 2 mm., 3-nerved, the margin being thick like a nerve. 

 Spines axillary, 4, short. Involucral scales, outer recurved, innermost 

 long, acute, golden, ray-flowers female, sometimes 5-toothed. 



Plain of N. Patagon., to Valdivian Andes. 



8. C. SPINOSA Don. 



Spines twin axillary. Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, tips spines- 

 cent, glabrous, shining above, appressed-pubescent underneath. Invo- 

 lucre villous, its scales spinescent-tipped, the inner scales orange, thrice 

 as long as the leaf. Style long-exsert. 



(Peru and Cordilleras of Chili) ; N. Patagon. 



62. DONIOPHYTON Weddel. 

 Like Chuquiraga but differing by having the corollas unbearded inter- 



