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MUTISIA ILICIFOLIA TRUNCATA (Don.) DC. 



Delandotte regards this as a young condition of the species ; having 

 leaves cordate-oblong, spinose-toothed at base and apex, and involucre 

 cylindrical. 



(Chili) ; Patagon. 



6. M. MOYANOI Speg. 



Stems wingless, glabrous, 300-500 cm. tall, densely branching. Leaves 

 alternate, glabrous on both surfaces, ovate, apically truncate to retuse or 

 bilobed, margin entire or irregularly toothed ; reticulately nerved with a 

 \o>K<g cirrhus. Peduncles long, i -headed. Involucral scales, outer linear, 

 reflexed ; the others ovate ; the outermost appendaged. Ligules twice as 

 long as the involucre. 



Chubut, in preandine shrubberies. 



7. M. OLIGODON Poepp. & Endl. 



Procumbent; branches angular, rather strict, hoary-tomentose. Leaves 

 lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acutish, sessile, subcordately amplexicaul, 

 apically sinuate on one or both sides, or 2-toothed ; margin entire, plane ; 

 glabrous above, tomentose underneath. Heads terminal, peduncled. 

 Lower involucral leaves with a lanceolate appendage, squarrose ; upper 

 ones obtuse, bearded at apex. Corollas of female ray elliptical, pink. 



(S. Chili, in rocky alpine plains) ; Patagon. (M. and T.). 



8. M. PATAGONICA Phil. 



Stems climbing, subangulate or subalate. Leaves decurrent, lance- 

 linear, 8 by 2 cm., ending in a bifid cirrhus, plane, entire, save 1-2 basal 

 teeth, underneath wool-webby, a cottony bud in the axils. Involucre sub- 

 cylindrical, its scales appressed, ovate, not appendaged. Rays in lower 

 part densely woolly-webby. 



(Chili); N. Patagon., by Lago Nahuel-huapi ; Chubut, by Lago Fon- 

 tana. 



9. M. PULCHELLA Speg. 



Stems 50-250 cm. tall, wingless. Leaves subentire, elliptical, apically 

 truncate-bidentate or rounded, glabrous on upper surface, densely tomen- 

 tose underneath, having a simple cirrhus. Pedtmcles long, i -headed. 

 Involucral scales external, few, linear, acute, reflexed ; others broadly 



