94 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS '. BOTANY. 



Add Macl., p. 312, 5 lines from foot: 



ALSTRCEMERIA NANA Rendle. Rendle Patag. Plant, p. 325. 



Flowering stems 10 cm. high, 2 mm. thick, usually reddish above : 

 scales 6-8 mm. long; stems sometimes bearing scales almost to the 

 flower : in other cases short linear leaves at apparent nodes. Leafy stems 

 half as long and thick as the flowering stems ; the leaves 25 mm. long, 2 

 mm. broad. Perianth-lobes 2 cm. long, the outer 7-8 mm. broad. Stamens 

 and style shorter than the perianth ; anthers i mm. broad ; stigmas linear. 



Top of Mt. Frias and Beach of Lago Argentine. 



Differs from the Andine species A. Pygmcza Herb, (which is i -flowered) 

 in not having a leafy involucre around the flower, and in having narrower, 

 less fleshy leaves. "Near A. patagonica which I know only from a brief 

 description by Macloskie ; stigmas elongate, broad, margined," would 

 not apply to our plant. (A. B. Rendle.) 



S. Patagonia near Lago Argentine. 



A. PATAGONICA Phil. Macl., p. 312. 



Also in S. Patagonia, Puerto Comodor Rivadavia, Puerto Mazaredo, 

 Puerto San Julian, Lago Argentine, Laguna Tar (in the valley of Arroyo 

 Shewen) ; near Coy Inlet, Central Patagonia, near Lago Buenos Aires, 

 upper Rio Chubut and Rio Sengen. 



A. PYGMvEA Herb. Macl., p. 312. 

 (Sub A. pygmcza Willd.) 



Should probably be deleted. This species belongs to the flora of Peru 

 and does not occur in Patagonia, or its occurrence here is, at least, very 

 doubtful. According to Holmberg (Holmberg, Amarill. Argent.) this 

 species is not observed in Patagonia. My earlier statement of its occur- 

 rence in Fuegia is incorrect. D. 



Professor Skottsberg writes : "I have compared true Alstrcemeria 

 pygmcea from Bolivia and Peru with this plant from Patagonia, called by 

 Philippi A '. patagonica ; they are different species." 



