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teoalbum, L., and the G. candicans, Kunth. Perhaps it belongs to 

 the last, which Gaudichaud has also collected in the Falkland islands 

 and which he has called G. consanguineum. The comparative ex- 

 amination of the specimens will decide the question. This plant is 

 much used and has vulnerary as well as febrifuge and sudorific prop- 

 erties attributed to it. The G. Chilense, Spr., is a very beautiful 

 plant which prefers the mountain rocks ; it is sometimes as white as 

 snow; its stalk is woody and is known by the same vulgar name. I 

 have also met with the G. CheircmthifoUum, Lamk., in stony situa- 

 tions, on the hills around Valparaiso and Santiago. It is a beauti- 

 ful species resembling the G. JMontevidense, Spr. Many others 

 have been collected in dry pastures, along drains, and in the sand near 

 torrents, both in high and low situations. Two of them appear to me 

 new ; the first approaches the G. Pennsylvanicum, W. ; the other, 

 which is viscous in all its parts, grows in Leona ; finally four approx- 

 mate the G. Germanicum, minimum, Smith, pyramidatum and ar- 

 vense, W. 



Gonolohus. Michx. A plant is cultivated in gardens which ap- 

 pears to belong to this species. Its fruit or rather follicles, open 

 when ripe and give exit to numberless grains armed with very long 

 villi, similar to cotton, hence the name of vicuna by which some dis- 

 tinguish it; but this shrub is more generally known by the name of 

 jazmin del Tucuman. Not having seen the flower, I can say nothing 

 at present. Nevertheless the peculiar form of its smooth leaves with 

 small glands in their insertion with the petiole, the point of which is 

 oblique, are particulars with which I have not met united in any pub- 

 lished species. Two other plants of this family are indigenous. 

 The first is called vogni, a name common to other vegetables. It is 

 found on the arid hills near the Cachapual on the road to Cauquenes. 

 Its flowers were not open. The second, called voquicillo, frequent 

 on the hills, in the highlands and even in enclosures on the plains, ' 

 appears to be related to the Cynanchum lanceolatum, Kunth, al- 

 though it differs essentially from it. 



Gossypium herbaceum and arhoreum. L. Algodon, cotton. They 

 are sown almost every year in some gardens, but rarely ripen in 

 consequence of the frost, which begins early. If it were desirable 

 to try the cultivation of the first of these plants on a large scale, it 

 would be necessary to select the warmest position, and perhaps if 

 sown early something might be obtained though never very consid- 

 erable. Would it not be more profitable to give preference to the 



