224 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : BOTANY. 



2. MENTHA VIRIDIS L., crossed by M. AQUATICA L. 

 Syn. M. piperita (L.p.p.) Huds. 



Flowers pedicellate, and leaves petioled. Glabrous and pungent-tasted. 

 Spikes narrow and loose. Leaves ovate-oblong, or narrower, acute, 

 sharply serrate. 



Introduced; in S. Patagon., at Rio Sta. Cruz (Speg.). 



Fam. 99. SOLANACE^:. Mac!., p. 698. 



LYCIUM Linn. 

 P. 701 : 



L. CAPILLARE Miers. 



As far as I am aware, not found in our district. D. 



L. CHUBUTENSE DuS. 



Should be deleted, being identical with L. floribundum Dun. 



L. DURISPINA Dus. 



Should be deleted, being identical with Grabowskia ameghinoi Speg. 

 (infra, p. 232). 



P. 703 : 



L. PUBESCENS Miers. 



As far as I am aware, not belonging to the flora of our district. 



P. 704: 



L. WILKESII Ball. 



Should be eliminated ; not known from Patagonia. 

 P. 704, add at foot of page, the species : 



17. L. FLORIBUNDUM Dun. 



Syn. L. chtibutense Dus. 



Shrub, with simple and glandular hairs mixed ; spiny, branches linear- 

 striate, whitish-yellow. Leaves alternate or fascicled, small, obovate, or 

 spathulate-oblong, cinereous. Flowers 1-3 from the center of the fascicles, 

 close in the branches ; calyx with linear hirsute segments as long as the 

 corolla tube. Corolla funnelform, 5-partite, the segments obtuse, spread- 

 ing. Stigma just exceeding the stamens. 



Chili; N. Patagonia, common along Rio Negro; Mid-Patagon., along 

 the coast-district, 



