CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
Eight! —Subvar. c. hirsutula, Less. l. c. 
any other difference between « and £, ex- 
cept what we have ib out, although 
the general a e be very distinct. 
In £, the fom is y either z> glabrous 
or slightly hispid, and the leaves are 
either quite entire, or the lowat ones are 
pinnati 
734. (3) 8. Tweedii (Hook. et en 
loso.— Buenos 
Ayres, where it is frequently employed 
as Endive. Tweedie. 
tt Caulibus ad ramificationum baseos 
Jolio unico instructis, ceterum aphyllis 
735. (4) s. apargioides (Less.); folio- 
rum ee petiolis limbo pe A e- 
vioribus, caule plus minusve r X 
volucri kirtill foliolis ligulatis vel 
lineari-lanceolatis obtusis.—a. caule gla- 
orcellites apargioides. Less. in 
bvar. paraiso. 
= Cruckshanks ; [Cuming (n. 413.) 
Don ane —Hy cheris a ms ee 
Hook. et Arn.in Bot.Beech. oy : 
—Conception, oe: Lay and lley. 739 
—We find th ets of the involucre 
to be onis abies, not acute as 
-scribed by Lessing : and the pappus is 
really stipitate, though DOE de- 
ribed by us in Beechey's Voyage as 
E iia isis were deceived by the fruit 
ure, 
736. 0) S. S. petiolaris (Hook. et Am.) ; 
petiolis gracilibus limbo longioribus, 
caule submonocephalo glabro v. piloso 
foliis 2—4-plo longiori, involucri pe n" 
nece eui Tecos intimis acumi 
Ayres, Tweedie. 
-797 7. (8) S. tenuiplia’ (Hook. ei Arn); 
! Some very interesting plants from the extreme Tweedie 
Southern countries of 
ee aan bets OF te i 
Pacific, 
ar aesvi ia ea Aaria vain, have been very 
us by Dr. Beck, from 
NUM 2 Fani New York. 
31 
* acaulis, folis linearibus spathulato- 
isve integerrimis runcina 
cri squamis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, 
piles rere lon 
uifoli 
Herba parce lanugin gla- 
t capus sesqui-tripollicaris. Ca- 
TS 
pitulum turbinatum lanu nosum. 
pus sordide cinereus.” Don in litt 
SuB-TRIB. IV. Lactucea.—JLess. l. c. 
p. 135. 
~ 
F (1.) Taraxacum Gilliesii (Hook. et 
Arn.); “ foliis runcinatis glabris, scapis 
folio brevioribus, involucri foliolis exte- 
rioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis yatta 
sis, achenio breviter rostrato."-—Leon 
don Chilensis, Do», MSS. 
das, Andes of Mendoza, Dr. Gillies — 
** Herba perennis, radice i 
the ultimate length of the beak. em 
` e hits scape and smaller capitu- 
appears scarcely to differ from 
gue d van we fear it will prove 
Hi e a vari Mr. n s specific name 
is inadmissible, as the plant i is found on 
the eastern, not on the Chilian, side of 
ni e NT 
1 crorhynchus Chilensis 
ae T Din. 
yn. p. 139.—Valp 
S ig (nT 745) ; ; Mathews (n. 306); Brid- 
and a 
ges 501 
740. (1.) Sonchus oleraceus, dex 
Blanca,? Tweedie.—Near arche in 
Se Chili, Bridges (n. . 407). 
- Tweedie's last botanical excursion on the 
eastern vidis of South America, was to ** Bahia 
tween lat. 399—406, a little to the north of the mouth 
of the Rio Colorado. He speaks of it as a part of 
Patagonia; but it is not included in that country ac- 
cording to our best English maps. - ied is now a consi- 
derebl e mihtary station, —_ uerte Argentino. 
se grasses. A ridge of land, bounding this, called 
MEER RI nope of « tree is visible so far as the 
