MR. HESKETH PRICHARD’S PATAGONIAN PLANTS 8238 
MonocoTyLEDo 
Stipa poconatHeERA Desy. in Gay Fl. “Chil vi. aT Macloskie in 
Rep. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, viii. 
Sandy slopes of foot-hills, Burmeister Penins 
Inflorescences only. The spikelets are larger rthan usual in the 
species, three-nerved glabrous acute barren glumes measuring 
2:7 and 2:2 cm. respective, while the flowering glume and callus 
together measure 1 cm. ; the awn, which is pilose throughout its 
length, is 11 cm. 1 nag ; 
Chili; South Patagonia. 
Putievm aupinum L, Sp. Pl. 5 thew 5c 12.179, 
Mountain slopes 5 aaceendle "Beni 
A widespread arctic and alpine apaticl: pane in South America 
on the Andes, in Patagonia, and in gi 
ALopecurts ALPInus Sm. FI. Brit. iii. 1386; Macloskie, J. c. 179. 
Springs, Maile Bait: sula. 
An arctic and alpine species found in South America in Chili, 
Patagonia, Fuegia, arid § in the Falkland Islands. 
PoLyPoGoN INTERRUPTUS oe B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 184, t. 44. 
Beach of Punta Bander 
From the Orinoco basin along the Andes to Chili and Paraguay. 
A small form with culms 4-8 in. high, and violet-coloured 
panicles 1-14 in. long. 
Desai cmspiTosa Beauy. Agrost. 160. 
Bank of stream, Burmeister Peninsula. 
Widely distributed. 
The large effuse panicle reaches more than a foot in length. 
TrisETuM sussPicatum Beauy. Agrost. 180; Hook. f. Fl. Ant. 377. 
Sheltered pampas, abe Peninsula. 
Antarctic Sarage: and fee 
ARuUNDO Soc. Linn. Paris, iv. 603. 
a DH) nontsiael Pg & Schult. es ii. 511. 
Low slopes of mountains, —" Peninsula. 
Fuegia and Falkland Islan: 
Nore.—Arundo Egnoutae was founded on a specimen from 
Port Egmont, in the Falkland Islands, received by the authors from 
Zea. It has been arg to Phragmites (P, Egmontiana Trin. ex 
Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. 824), under which it appears in the Index 
Kewensis with the query, ‘‘Quid?” We have in the National Her- 
barium, in Herb. Roemer a wie Shuttleworth), the original 
specimen sent by Zea. bears the t ‘*Arundo sp. indet. ex 
Portu Egmond.” in Zea’s han a, in n adait ns to the Herb. Roemer 
label, and agp eniier the Falkland Island specimens of 
‘Arundo pilosa 
be 
Poa Atopecurus Kunth, Revis. Gram. 116; Steud. Syn. Gram. 
260 ; Macloskie in Rep. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patag. viii. 223. 
Festuca Avrundo Hook, f. Fl. Antarct. 381. Fe Alopecurus Brongn. 
in Duperry, Voy. autour du Monde, Botan. pt. 2, 82. 
Springs, Burmeister Peninsula. 
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