82 List of the Plants of Chile. 
st hygrometricum. Pers. It is found: in winter on walls 
near drains. It resembles the @. rufescens, Pers., but I think it 
differs from both. : 
Geranium Pusillum. L. - Very frequently in pastures, aslougoes 
and in cultivated lands. It is called core-core, and is employed asa . 
remedy in various complaints, particularly in pains of the teeth, gums 
and throat. It is also used in decoction as a wash for old ulcers. 
The G@. Robertianum, L., is common in woods, and among the rocks 
on the’ highlands. A third species is found in elevated pastures, at 
the entrance of woods and thickets; this resembles the G@. tuberosum, 
L., from which however it differs in its napiform root. Its flowers 
vary in size and in the intensity of their color; its stalk is soniciaaey 
recumbent and sometimes upright. 
Geum coccineum. Sibth. and Smith. Vulgarly, flor del clave 
Modern: authors, as Sprengel and De Candolle, give this plant as 
) Asia Minor, and particularly from Mount Olympus, in | 
Bithynia, no doubt from the description and plate of it, published: by » 
Sibthorp and Smith in the Flora Graca. Nevertheless De Can- 
dolle in his Prodromus says that he had received a specimen of this 
species from Balbis, under the name of G. Chiloense. This obser- 
vation Jeads me to think that it is cultivated in the island of Chiloe, 
but I have learned with much satisfaction that the flor del clavois — 
very common in humid pastures at the foot of the mountains oppo- — 
site to Cachapual, at a short distance from Rio-claro. Consequent- 
ly, we must say that Chile is also its native country, and compare 
the: Asiatic species with that of America, and decide upon their iden- 
tity. Amateurs should in the mean time propagate this plant in their 
gardens. ‘The inhabitants use its roots in certain Somiplanitay it - 
the odor of the pink, like those of the G. Urbanum, L. : 
Gilia laciniata. Ruiz and Pavon. Common in sterile and stony 
places, along rivers and torrents, and is not wanting on the highlands. 
There is another plant of the family of the Polemoniacee, ; 
in the humid pastures on the plain, and near torrents. In its leaves | 
it resembles the G. coronopifolia, Pers.; but the generic characters 
are a t different. I think it will form a genus which I will - 
Se Eixoeti en. 
phalium Viravira. Molina. Vulgarly Keres ; common in 
sterile and stony situations on the plain and highlands. I only find 
it mentioned by Steudel, and I do not see that it is considered as @ 
synonym. ‘This plant occupies a middle place between the G. lu- 
