822 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
rain is falling. After the rain ceases, mists arise and circle round 
you, shutting you in, these in their turn often being dissipated by 
a sudden fierce squall. n summer the climate is very humid, and 
many of the plants have the fat damp aspect seldom observable save 
n the tropics. The huge masses of rank vegetation seem to stifle 
you can never quite shake off its influence.” ‘In that particular 
forest was one glade by the outrunning of a <i apes where the 
ground was thick with orchids,” presumably Chl , &e. “« There 
were also gen gr ‘iene about the foot-hills oF the “Cordillera.” 
e flora of the small area investigated includes two distinct 
elements which call fbi remark. On the one hand there is a well- 
such as Stipa pogonathera, Carex in conspicua, Luzula chilensis, Sisy- 
rinchium cuspida tum, ota Lechleri, Calandrinia caespitosa, 
Draba Gilliesti, Escallonia rubra, Scyphanthus elegans, Collomia coc- 
cinea, Oreopolus citrtnus, aiid by diminishing numbers of more an 
Pp 
Relbunium pusillum, Bowlesia tropeolifolia, Acena pinnatifida, A. 
ovalifolia, Saaxifraga Pavonii, Quinchamalium procumbens, Sisyrinchium 
junceum, and others. On the other hand, ns a is an equally well- 
marked antarctic element represented by many Fuegian or extreme 
south Patagonian types, such as Rumeax magellanicus, Lychnis mee 
lanica, Draba fascicularis, Geum magellanicum, Acena cuneata 
tenus magellanica, Colletia discolor, Azorella trifurcata, Seutatabie 
nummulariefolia, M nit, l Darwinii, and 
eurus (Falkland Islands), — adscendens, Primula magellanica 
(Falkland commend and other 
A third category includes st nts of a more endemic type, which 
find their northern limit of distribution in southern Chili, and 
spread southwards to Fuegia. Such are the characteristic ann 
tree, the antarctic ie Sa antarctica (South ili to Cape 
the 
alpinus, Deschampsia cespitosa, Poa pratensis, Hordeum noneion 
Cerastium ar vine Nasturtium palustre, Cardamine pratensis, Senebiera 
pinnatifida, Potentilla Anserina, Erigeron alpinus, Taraxacum levi- 
gatum, and Sonchus asper. 
The new species belong for the most part to characteristic 
temperate South American genera, such as Alstroemeria, Tristagma, 
Patagonium (a name aiiteasily set aside by De Candoll in favour 
Adesmia), Azorella, Boopis, and Nassau 
The arrangement of the families is that now nente followed 
by Csetineital and American botanists—namely, that of Professor 
Engler’s Syl/abus. Mr. Spencer Moore has worked out the C fomposit@, 
which will be found at the end of the paper. 
