I 88 CARL SKOTTSBERG 



is easily known from the alpine Gnaphalium of Masafuera. This is strictly 

 perennial with numerous rosulate innovations; the scape is simple or very little 

 branched and has few leaves. The leaves are greenish grey above, snowy 

 white with long, dense wool below, and the same kind of long, crisp wool 

 thickly envelops the scape and heads. The latter form a dense, short almost 

 globular spike, surrounded by leaves; sometimes there are some lateral glomerules, 

 sessile or pedunculate. The compact globose spikes and the long crisp wool 

 give to this form an appearance different from that of all forms of purpureum 

 or spicatum that I have seen. 



The involucral scales number 15 to 20, all the outer are short and broad, 

 3 X 1 — 1,2 mm, acute, greenish hyaline with dark brown apex; the inner are 

 larger, 4X 1 — 1,5 trim, obtusely apiculate to square, denticulate, green in the 

 centre with broad hyaline edges and a dark brown or reddish brown tip. The 

 head measures 4 X 2,5 mm. In G. spicatum the head is smaller and narrower 

 (3 X i,s — 2 mm), and not so dark, with all the scales acuminate or acute 

 (fig. 31 n). 



The species was brought to G. spiciforme after a detailed comparison 

 with the type, LECHLER no. 1250, of which I have seen material in Upsala, 

 Kew and Marburg. It includes two forms, one very like my plant, another 

 with a leafy stem, grey wool and sessile clusters of heads in all the upper 

 axils. The latter is = G. mucronatum Phil, in Herb. Santiago; REICHE brought 

 this to spiciforme, but I think it is better to regard mucronatum as distinct and 

 to bring a part of LECHLER no. 1250 to this. 



I have seen the following specimens of G. spiciforme, as limited above: 

 Sandy Point, LECHLER no. 1250 ex p. (type), fig. 31 1; Port Famine, King 

 (s. n. G. falcatum, very like the plant from Masafuera); Orange Harbour, WlLKES 

 (s. n. G. consanguineum); Bay San Nicolas (Cunningham). Dusen's G. spicatum 

 from Lake Argentino in Patagonia (no. 5742) is similar in most respects. To 

 judge from our present knowledge of G. spiciforme , this is a magellanic species 

 with an outpost on Masafuera. 



The sterile specimens of 1908 were compared with G, consanguineum Gaud. 

 The fresh material clearly shows the difference between them, and consanguineum 

 is brought to spicatum by most authors. 



Area of distribution: South Patagonia; Fuegia; Masafuera. 



Abrotanella Cass. 



*I24. A. crassipes nov. spec. — Fig. 32 a — h. 



Pulvinatim caespitosa, caespite rotundato — subplano, denso nee non sat 

 magno. Folia creberrime rosulata, linearia, haud marginata, curvato-patula, 

 glabra, plerumque 10 — 15 mm longa, infra apicem 1,5 — 2 mm lata; lamina car- 

 nosa, supra punctulis depressis inspersa, apice rotundato-subconica, minutissime 

 apiculata, versus basin leviter angustata deinde in vaginam subhyalinam ner- 

 vosam intus glandulosam dilatata. Glandulae ferrugineae stipitatae clavatae 

 multicellulares. Scapus in ramis terminalis, 1 — 2-foliatus, primo inter folia 

 ± absconditus, statu fructifero elongatus nee non incrassatus et carnosus, ad 



