MACLOSKIE I COMPOSITE. 



5. LASORRHIZA GOSSYPINA (H. & A., sub Leucerid]. 



Densely woolly. Stem simple, leafy, i -flowered. Radical leaves? 

 Cauline leaves very broad-lanceolate, acuminate, rather naked upwards. 

 Involucre campanulate, its scales oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, nearly as long 

 as the flowers. Ligules oblong. 



Falklands. 



6. L. GRACILIS (Alboff, sub Leucerid]. (DC., sub Ckabrcea.] 



Green, 16-30 cm. high, with many stems, slender, scapiform, having 

 1-3 narrow, linear bracts, or bractless, sparsely woolly or hairy. Leaves 

 slender, membranaceous, lyrate or spatulate, entire or sparingly toothed, 

 or pinnately incised or partite. Heads rather small, slender, with white 

 flowers. 



Fuegia, valley of Olivaia on Beagle Channel. 



7. L. HAHNII (Franchet, sub Leucerid]. 



Rhizome thick, many-stemmed, covered by black remains of leaves. 

 Plant white-woolly. Stems, 30 cm. high, i -headed, nearly naked above. 

 Floral leaves linear or oblong-spatulate, attenuate-petiolate, petiole widen- 

 ing below. Head 20 mm. in diameter. Involucral scales 2-seriate, outer 

 obtuse, inner acutish. Receptacle naked. Flowers bilabiate, subequal, 

 bright red. Achenes scabrid. Pappus of white barbellate hairs, rufous 

 at tip. 



Fuegia, Beagle Channel, at Lapataia and Ushuaia; S. Patagon., at 

 head of Rio Chico (Hatcher, Feb. 11). 



8. L. HOFFMANN: (Dusen, sub Leucerid]. 



Low, 4-5 cm., woolly. Leaves radical, rosulate, pinnatifid; their seg- 

 ments 6-8, oblong, elliptical, imbricate, the uppermost at least incised; 

 sheaths exceeding the laminae, S-y-striate, woolly-margined. Scapes in 

 pairs, as long as the leaves, i -headed, with 1-2 linear leaves. Heads 

 hemispherical. Bracts 2-seriate, acute, 3-nerved, woolly on the outside. 

 Rays black-purple, linear, cochleate-revolute. Achene papillous. Pappus 

 snow-white. 



S. Patagon., Cerro-peliki, to 500 m. of elevation. (O. Nordenskjold.) 



