104 
San Lucie ; ai Gillies, Don in litt.— 
This we have not seen 
(1.) Chastanthers (Bichenia) deal- 
bata, foliis aggregatis petiolatis — 
repando-dentatis dealbatis, scapo fo 
longiore, involucri foliolis iatonchstin 
acuminatis carinatis.—Bichenia dealba- 
ta, Don MS s Peu- 
quenes; San Nas 
Laguna; Monte de San Antonio; all in 
pe Andes of Mane? De "Gillies, Don 
n litt 
808. (2.) Cheetanthera (Bichenia) Berte- 
roana, Less. Syn. p. 111.—Bichenia au- 
rea, Don in Linn. ‘se. Tr. 18. p. 237 — 
Province of Maule, Cuming (n. 835).— 
Perhaps there may be a mistake as to 
Cuming's locality, as Don states it to be 
a native of Coquimbo. This differs from 
all the other * aba of Chetanthera, by 
having a leafless scape, by the leaves 
th ents ei- 
nna 
many-nerve 
essentially by the d ligule 
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A FLORA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
perio, and precisely d in his Euthrizia 
is. The leaves are from a line to 
an inch long. Cheri = Ra 
Lessing’s p AEN eR are the same 
uw or sub-genus. 
, (4) e cte (Chexina) linea- 
abra! multicaulis, 
— interioribus se ensim 
Mag. ; 
Jide Don in Guill. Arch. 2. p. 467.— 
Llay-Llay on sandy plains, ren (n. 
128). Valparaiso, Cuming (n. 655, in 
Herb. Hook.)—Easily distinguished from 
the last by the shape of the outer leaflets 
of the involucre. We do not know Ch. 
linifolia, Bert. Accordin 
ipe idm the leaflets of the involucre 
ofthe ray: the habit is entirely that of 811. 6) ian thera (Euchætia anthera) 
Trichocline, from which it differs by the 
smooth, not papillose, filaments, gla- 
brous rachis, and Chilian locality. As 
however, all the species of Trichocline 
have likewise more than four conspicu- 
ous nerves, perhaps they and the Biche- 
nia of Don ought, on that acċount, to be 
united. Mr. Don (in sige remarks that 
Aphyllocaulon, Lag. is same with 
Bichenia, but Cassini cose Lessing re- 
fer it to Gerbera, all the species of which 
are from the Ca: 
809. (3.) Cheetanthera ctm) micro- 
phylla, (Hook. et Arn.) annua glabra 
multicaulis, caulibus umbellatim peii 
the 
aa of ds m not sufficient to 
Mark a permanent variety. n says 
that t the inner lip of the radical florets is 
acutely bidentate : it is, in reality, bi- 
villosa (Gill.); villosa perennis(?) caule 
na.)— in 
i im 1832,) p. 591. in Ce Ar es 2. 
466.—Ascent to El Planchon, Andes 
of Mendoza , Dr. Gilles. 
812. (6.) Chetanthera (Euchet.) serrata 
R. et P.), repens stolonifera, caulibus 
subsolitariis monoceph 
libus cuneatim oblongo-linearibus, cau- 
linis alternis, involucri campanulati i y 
Proselia serrata, Don i 
16. 22 235 I Posdiciun Chicas, Willd. 
acienda de a i,” Province 
of Valdivia, Bridges 
PEUR 
813. (7.) Chætanthera (Euchet. ) argentea 
(Don); cæspitosa pluricaulis peren 
caule monocephalo, folis radicalibus 
cuneato-line rratis, invo- 
_ espe m 
omnibus (intimis exceptis) apice folis 
n11nea 
linearibus — apicem spinoso- peni A 
tis—D h. Mag. ( n ne Ls 
391. i n Guill. ees he 9. p.48 
ule monocephalo, foliis radica- 
issime cuneato - linearib 
versus apicem serratis, involucri campa- 
xia, and - 
on E E 
em Ria ai quio e 
aribus pium se d 
nulati foliolis albidis fere — 
Andes, Cuming (n. 182). Tapai E 
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