A VISIT TO THE NORTHERNMOST FOREST OF CHILE. 2038 
these plants grew an Opuntia with small, plain-like segments and 
orange-coloured flowers. There were bu shes of a seer ee 
from a low stem putea cm. high, and not surpassing 5 
ipickziee ss, spread out veral bra. ree: inclined upwards, then 
nearly Loren: rarely a little Sanihed, sored as the stem with a 
reddish gr y bark, without any leaf, full of small tubercles all 
_ In little crevices and at the end of the plain grew 
e shrubby Heliotropes with milk-white flowers, ee 
stenophyllum DC. var. glabrum, Eupatorium foliolosum DC., the 
red Pleocarphus revolutus Don, Kncelia tomentosa Wa Ip. "Chori. 
aanthe glabrescens een at agonia chilensis Hook. & Arn. anid epetees 
of Dolia without flow We found no herbaceous plants, but, to 
judge Pessie the dry Sethe, &e., on the sorted and what the people 
= me, sarc must exist in spring, when the winter has been rainy 
nough, a very abundant and pretty herbaceous vegetation, partly 
of estas, ‘eatlly of bulbous plants, with brilliant flowers, amongst 
em many Amaryllidee. 
We descended soon into a narrow sandy pormeds with the ground 
here and there wet, and we found here Lippia canescens Kth. 
Malva sulphurea Cay., a low ‘Faians with large flowers (for the 
genus), probably Weaatetidnh Gay. On downs at our left grew a 
Lylloma, and a Chetanthera with white rays. Several huts and 
houses lie in this alley, but we passed it in half an hour without 
we met with one specimen of Ghanian pedunculare Lindl. w 
flower, and Eugenia —— Barn., a shrubby myrtle of sacl 
50 cm. high. In the sandiest places were growing 
Cactee, two species of Cerets, one Opuntia, and the neonate 
Echinocactus, but nearly entirely without flowers. Near the sea 
grew some half shrubs with fleshy leaves, but without flowers, 
probably belonging to the Nolanacee 
m our return to Serena we followed the sandy shore, which is 
Separated from the land by low wave e-like hea aps va sand, bn ar and 
Tetragonia maritim ar., Dolia prea es this last 
forming thickets of about 1 m. sei and of Samalenaiis extent. 
At three o’clock we came to the mouth of the River Com 
which is here but a small creek with clear water, and which w 
passed easily, following on ne south Hove upwards to Serena. is 
e vt hogen we found the com on flor: f such ee ee mi only 
