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CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
ibus copiose glandulosis, ligula ovali- one-flowered stems, their habit thus dif- 
oblonga.—L. rede. Gill—Donin fering widely from that of Mr. Don's 
Phil. Mag. (April 389: in section Cassio or Lasiorrhiza of 
Guill. A 4 not of Cass )— Lessing, all the species of which have a 
Cerro de la Polcura, Andes of Mendoza, very branched inflorescence; but on the 
Dr. Gillies.—T his differs from L. Brid- other hand, there is no difference in the 
gesiit by the more copious glandular structure of the flowers. Martrasia of 
h 
airs, denser tomentum on the under Sprengel (Gen. p. 626.) yt the 
side of the leaves, and by heung the true species of Pe A but the ge- 
leaves ree auricled at the nus of L a and Cassini, of Te same 
775. (7.) Leucheria (Cie d Brid name, Su sie erruginea, Linn. 
gest (Hook et Arn.) ; caule keuthbi- 779. (11.) Leucheria (Lasiorrhiza) lact- 
deo-tomentoso. versus apicem obscure- niata (Hook. et Arn.); acaulis, foliis 
glanduloso- pi radicalibus dense canescenti-pubescenti- ^ 
rigidis Bes rd subtus parce lanatis bus _ pinnatifidis, segmentis oblongo- 
supra demum glabratis eglandulosis xem linearibus paucidentatis terminali lon- 
si late auriculatis, segmentis lanceolatis giore, scapo monocephalo dense villoso 
subintegerrimis acutis vel acuminatis — involucro villoso campanulato foliolis in- 
ungenti-mucronatis margin o- terioribus linearibus acuminatis, p 
luto, involucri campanulatifoliolis scari- piloso (haud flexuoso).—Chili, Bridges: 
osis acuminatis subpungenti-mucronatis, | —in Dr. Hooker's herbarium only as far 
ligula elliptica oblonga (alba).—Cordil- ^ as we know. 
lera. Bridges (n. 486).— This seems to 
differ in several particulars from Lasior- 
SuBTRIB. IIL.—NassAUVIEJ.— Less. 
rhiza rosea, Less. In our plant, the stem veio 
is only about nine inches high, the gland- 
ular hairs very few, and only towards the 780. (1.) Polyachrus.Poeppigii, Kunze.— 
the 5. p. 9. Syn. p. 400. 
summit, and the upper surface of PY. in Linnea, 
leaves is entirely i from them. al, Syn.—P.auritus, Don, in Phil. Mag. 
716. (8.) Leuchæria (Cassiopea) Cu- ves 1832.) p. 390 ; in Guill. Arch. 2. 
mingi (Hook et Arn.); caule lanato 105. Valparaiso, on cliffs along the 
superne pilis glanduliferis parce ornato, coast. Bridges ; Cuming (n 
folis pinnatifidis subtus lanatis supra 48.)); Macrae; Matthews (n. 316.) 
is, segmen ngis P. spherocephalus of Don is distinct 
acutis sinuatim Ed min bracteali- if isa Peruvian plant, and the same with 
bus lanceolatis denta nvolucri ca Bridgesia echinopsoides, Hook.; it is in 
neari-obl - 
neari-lanceolata! basi tubo vix Sipo 781. PD) Polyachrus multifidus, Don, in 
latiori.—Coquimbo, Cuming Phil. Mag. (Apr. 1832). p. 390; in 
This can scarcely be either pulchella Guill. pes 2. p. 466. — Coquimbo, 
[idee k g (n. 876. 
are likewise found at Coquimbo, for he 782, so ) Galptitun Lagasce, Hook. e 
could not have omitted to observe the — Arn halus Lagasce, G 7 
remarkable narrow ligule of the floret, uss. on in Phil. Mag. (Apr. poe 
by which the present is at o is p. 389. in Guill. Arch. 2. p. 465.—A sc 
nce distin- | 
guishable from all the other species of of Los Peuquenes, rts of Chili. Dr. 
777. 
the section um which we are acquainted. — Gillies.—Mr. Don (l. c.) describes «i 
(9.) Leucheria (Lasiorrhiza, Don,) ^ leaves as costate ; followin Lessi 
candidissima, Gill. —Don in Phil. Mag. phraseology, they would be eee 
(Apr 2 Guill. Arch. 2. ized thus,—folia nervis plurimis impres- 
i. 464.—El valle e los Ciegos, ers sis parallelis. he us is ina Emp 
- of Mendoza. Dr. Gillies.—Very ne series, paleaceous, plumose ; 
en: to P cc. (or Chabrea) cd cous. "We do not know the original s = 
T5. (i eet i Leucheria(Lasiorrhiza) sero- ^ description given is Lagasca, it appears 
—DoninPhil.Mag.(Apr. to be very similar to, if not the same 
532 p.800; in Guill. Arch. 2. A61. with, that from Dr. Gillies. Gill. 
Cuesta € es of Chili, 783. (1.) Panar lomeratum, Gi 
Dre Gillies. = Sines two last Polon un- A Phil. Ma sanis 1832.) $i 
- questionably, to Lasiorrhiza of Lagasca, 390: in Guill. paag 2. p. 466.— 
or Chabrea of Decandolle,. and have Cerro de la Polcura, Andes Tot Mendoza, | 
