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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



35918 to 35975. 



Collected by Mr. W. F. Wight, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Quoted notes by ^Mr. Wight, except as indicated. 



35918. Alstroemeria sp. 



From Chile. Received June 10, 1913. "(No. 107.) An herbaceous plant 

 2| to 3 feet high with umbels of large, yellowish, very handsome flowers. In 

 the forests between Petrufquen and ViUarica. ' ' 



35919. Alstroemeria sp. 



From Talcahuano, Chile. Received May 7, 1913. ''(No. 58.) A very orna- 

 mental herbaceous plant with pinkish flowers. These seeds were gathered from 

 rather small plants in ver>'" light soil. It should do much better under good 

 conditions. ' ' 



35920. ApiUMsp. Wild celery. 



From Quilan, Chile. Received June 10, 1913. ''(No. 191.) A wild celery 

 from south of Quilan. This has more or less the same taste as Apium graveolens 

 and can be utilized in the same way. This should prove a valuable plant. I 

 found it only near the sea." 



36921 and 35922. Araucaria araucana (Molina) Koch. Pehuen. 



35921. From Concepcion, Chile. Received June 10, 1913. "(No. 122.) 

 Pinon nuta sold in the market at Concepcion. The natives bring them 

 in from the mountains." 



35922. From Temuco, Chile. Received June 10, 1913. "(No. 167.) 

 Pinon nut from the mountains east of Temuco. Very common in many 

 localities. ' ' 



35923 and 35924. Berberis spp. Barberry. 

 From San J^Iartin, Argentina. Received June 6, 1913. 



35923. Berberis empetrifolia Persoon. 



" (No. 139. March 1, 1913.) This has narrow needlelike leaves and is 

 a low-growing shrub, those I found being not more than 24 inches high. ' ' 



"A low, densely branched shrub, up to 2 feet high: last year's branches 

 slightly angular, brown, the young ones purplish, often bloomy: spines 

 1 to 3 parted, one-fourth to three-fourths inch long; leaves Linear, as 

 long as the spines, strongly revolute at the margin, spiny pointed; bright 

 green; flowers 1 or 2, on slender pedicels, about one-fourth inch long; 

 fruit globose, bluish black, about one-fourth inch in diameter. ' ' (Rehder, 

 in Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture.) 



Distribution. — The southern part of South America, extending from 

 latitude 30° S. in Chile southward to the Strait of Magellan. 



35924. Berberis darwixh Hooker. Michai. 

 "(No. 141. March 1, 1913.) Very common in southern Chile, but 



only at San Martin did I find fruit. Doubtless the coldest locality in 

 which I found it." 



"An evergreen shrub of dense habit, from 6 to 12 feet high: branchlets 

 covered with a dense, reddish brown down. Leaves very dark, glossy 

 green, stalkless, hard in texture, obovate, three-fourths inch to 1^ inches 

 long, the apex three spined, and with one to several spiny teeth down 

 each side; they spring in tufts from the axils of short multiple spines. 



