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and obtuse. Our larger specimens pretty well accord with those 

 gathered by Mr. Matthews (No. 688 in herb. Hook.), near Cerro 

 Pasco, which are doubtless the A. dicranoides of Kunth. Those from 

 Alpamarca, &c, have smaller and blunter leaves, and might be 

 referred to A. hryo&dea, Willd. (which, I notice, Walpers, who had 

 original specimens before him, has done with a Peruvian plant 

 gathered by Meyen) ; but I cannot draw any line between the diffe- 

 rent forms. Mr. Pentland collected the same species, apparently, 

 without flowers, at La Paz in the Bolivian Andes. The few flowers 

 the specimens furnish are not in good condition. They are sessile at 

 the apex of the branches, apetalous, and with 10 stamens. The styles 

 are 2, or sometimes 3. The ovary contains 5 or 6 ovules, of which 

 only one, perhaps, matures. — In Kunth's detailed description for, "folia 

 1 l-2-pollicaria," we should evidently read, 1J-2 lineas longa. 



6. STELLAKIA, Linn. 

 1. Stellaria debilts, D'Utv. 



Stellaria debilis, D'Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 4, p. 618 ; Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. 

 p. 250. 



Hab. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. 



Besides the ordinary form of the species, there is a variety, appa- 

 rently growing in very wet places, which is more casspitose, depressed, 

 and with longer, crowded, narrowly linear, and gramineous leaves. 



2. Stellaria cuspid ata, Willd. 



Stellaria cuspidata, Willd. herb., ex Schlecht. Berl. Mag. 1816; H. B. K. Nov. 

 Gen. & Spec. 6 ; p. 27 ; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 396 ; Gay, Fl. Chil. 1, p. 264. 



Hab. Obrajillo, Andes of Peru. 



This species resembles the European S. nemorum; but the leaves 

 are less petioled, all the upper ones sessile or nearly so. It appears 



