MR. HESKETH PRICHARD’S PATAGONIAN PLANTS 369 
Chili; es Fuegia; Falkland Islands. ee widely 
distributed in the south t temperate zone, as in the 
Sir ooker, A c., remarks on the abundant ease of this 
species in the arctic regions, referring at the same time to the 
absence of all injurious and disagreeable properties ee plant being 
conssantly used as a vegetable both raw and cooked 
_ Mr. Prichard’s specimen from Patagonia does not at sight sug- 
aa the European celery. The plant is a low-growing herb with a 
stou Peco rennial nla and resembles a specimen from the 
i ‘ its 
the latter by mee § Parkinson among the drawings made on Cook’s 
first voyage in 1769 
Osmoruiza cHILENSIS Hook. & Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. iii. 855. 
Forests on Mt. Buenos Aires above soutli-west fiord of Lake 
Argentino 
Chili; Fuegia. 
PrrRNeTTyYA MucRonATA Gaud, ex G. , Gen. Syst. iii. 836; 
Dusén in asi k. Exped. till Magellsnand: ‘iii. no. 
Low slopes of mountains, Burmeister Peninsula § and high 
wooded slopes, Mt. 
Chili; So uth Patagonia ; sian and Fuegian Islands. 
P. pumiua var. minor Hoo inci Antarct. 326. 
Mitiibaid tops, anna Peninsula. 
South Patagonia; Fuegia ; Falkland Islands. 
Paimvuna MAGELLANica Lehm. Monogr. Prim. 62, t. 6. P. fari- 
nosa Var. bigs Se 2 Hook. a ey Antaret. 337 ; Dusén, 1. e189, 
Swamp, Burm 
Straits of Maaalian t ote ee Falkland Islands. 
SamoLus spatHuLatus Duby in DC. Prodr. x. 74; Hook. f. Fl. 
Antarct. 338. 
Swamp on pampa, Burmeister Peninsula. 
South Patagonia; North Fuegia 
Sratick PUNICEA nom. nov. aviaiid chilensis Boiss. in DC. Prodr. 
xii. 681; Spegazz. in ee Mus. Nacion. v. 68; Dusén, l.c, 138. 
Low slopes of mountains, Burmeister Peninsula. 
Mr. Prichard’s specimen has sparsely puberulous leaves and 
scape, agreeing with Boissier’s var. magellanica. It would seem, 
however, t that this difference is scare ely worth a Jucelotal distinction, 
the plant collected at Port Famine by Anderson in faa g’s voyage 
agreeing in other respects with the western Patagonia n spe ecimen,. 
King’s specimen is referred by Boissier to Statice andina (Armeria 
andina Poepp. dy from which, however, it differs in its much narrower 
leaves. The same plant is referred in the Fiora Antarctica (p. 339) 
to Statice pales L., but I do not think the Patagonian is con- 
