List of the Plants of Chile. 307 



Ruiz and Pa von. They are found in arid and craggy situations 

 about mountains, in ravines and on the edges of precipices. The 

 first is also called Cardon, and the second Cardoncillo. These 

 plants may be employed in hedges, particularly on the heights, 

 where others will not grow. By this means lasting lines would be 

 traced that would serve as boundaries to property, without the ne- 

 cessity of carrying stone or timber, the transportation of which is ex- 

 pensive and difficult. 



Bromus pratensis and B. mollis. Linn. Plants from Europe: 

 frequent in fields, plains and vineyards. The first is usually called 

 cebadilla, little-barley. 



Buddleia globosa Linn. Vulgarly panil, a small tree, which 

 grows near rivers, and is sometimes cultivated near houses. The 

 leaves and their decoction are employed in medicine. I have seen 

 a variety cultivated, which differs in nothing from the B. glabrata, 

 Spr., lately discovered in Montevideo. These two trees should oc- 

 cupy a distinguished place in landscape gardens. 



Cactus. Linn. Some species are proper to this country. The C. 

 Peruvianus, Linn., is very common on the heights, in the mountains, 

 and in arid places, and on the plains near rivers. It is called Quisco. 

 There is another very small species in the stony places of Leona, 

 which resembles the C. Coquimhanus, Mollina, but might, perhaps, 

 form a different species. The third, common in the ravines of hills, 

 and in the stony situations on the banks of Cachapual, approaches to 

 the C. recurvus, Mill. I have called it C. curvispinvs. In some 

 gardens the C. Coccinillifer, Linn., is cultivated, to which the name 

 tuna is given. Its fruit, called guiyaves, a name which is generally 

 given to others, is edible. This last is the same which serves for al- 

 iment to the cochineal. Its cultivation might be attempted in the 

 plains of Coquimbo, where the temperature is favorable to it. The 

 parenchyma of these plants, very succulent and mucilaginous, might 

 replace those commonly employed in medicine for cataplasms and 

 emollient decoctions, particularly in winter, and in the country, where 

 from idleness the future is seldom thought of. 



CcEsalpinia. Linn. A beautiful tree, admired for its flowers. 

 It is said to come from Mendoza. It is cultivated in some gardens 

 by the name of Barhon. It resembles much the Pomaria glandu- 

 losa, Cav. ; a genus united to the Ccesalpinia by some botanists of 

 our day. Nevertheless, I think it differs from it, and ought to be 

 called C. Barhon. 



