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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Myriopliyllum (compare No. 2 Western Oregon, North California), and M. verticillatum. 

 The flowers and fruit not seen. Aquatic; growing in the environs of Valparaiso, and 

 elsewhere. 



Callitriche (compare No. 1 New Zealand, and No. 2 California and our Atlantic States). 

 Aquatic. 



Carica? (No. 2). A milky-shrub, the leaves Jatropha-like ; flowers dioecious?, tubular, 

 with scales at the base; the long tube or true calyx five-cleft, with petals as in Fuchsia; 

 follicle containing six seeds enveloped in pulp. Vicinity of " Valparaiso," Brackenridge. 



Loasa ? (No. 1). Mentzelioid ; procumbent; flowers large, yellow, with the base of the 

 petals red. In a ravine two miles to the Southward of Valparaiso. 



(No. 2). Leaves very large, lobed, and the lobes obtuse ; flowers not seen. In wet 



ground, ten miles South of Valparaiso. 



Calandrinia glauca, Dec. ? (No. 1); but the stem three feet. Leaves ovate, acute; flowers 

 large, reddish-purple. Maritime ; growing on rocky cliffs facing the sea. 



Corrigiola ? (No. 1). Polygonum habit ; root fleshy, long, and fusiform ; stems decum- 

 bent ; leaves linear, upright. Mai'itime; growing on the sands of the sea-shore. 



Acanthonychia ramosissima, (No. 1) ; gen. Paronych. Frequent in the environs of Valpa- 

 raiso, growing on the barren upland. 



Balardia ? (No. 1); compare B. Platensis of St. Hil. ; gen. Paronychia-like. Leaves 

 short, filiform. Rare. 



Mesembryanthemum (compare No. 1 New Zealand, Australia, and California). The leaves 



acinaciform. Maritime ; gi'owing on rocky cliff's facing the sea. 

 Tetragonia crystallina? (No. 2). In drying, the leaves become hoary, and the capsule 



manifestly cornuted. Maritime ; growing on the sands of the sea-shore. 

 " Echinocactus" (No. 1). Depressed; the thorns large ; the flowers not seen. Environs 



of Valparaiso. 



" " (No. 2 ) ; a foot high. The flowers small, red. Hilly ground along the sea-coast?. 



" Cereus" (No. 7); near C. Peruviauus, but the stem having fourteen or fifteen angles. 

 Columnar, six to twenty feet high, with upright branches. Frequent and conspicuous, 

 from Valparaiso to the basal portion of the Andes. 



Opuntia (No. 9). Normal ; the stem-joints compressed. Observed only in the vicinity of 

 Valparaiso ; perhaps not indigenous. 



Bibes (No. 11). Smoothish; the leaves glandular-punctate; flowers and fruit not seen. 

 Mountain-ravines back of Valparaiso. 



glandulosum, Buiz & Pav. ? (No. 12). Entirely pubescent; leaves glandular- 

 punctate ; flowers not seen. Twelve miles South of Valparaiso. 



(No. 13). Softly pubescent. Towards the Middle mountain-region of the Andes. 



Escallonia rubra, (No. 2). Flowers sparse, in simple racemes, bright-red. Mountain- 

 ravines back of Valparaiso. 



Cydonia vulgaris, (bis Yemen, Australia, Rio Janeiro, the United States, and No. 1 



Europe). Quinces for sale in the market. 

 Pyrus communis, (bis Persian Gulf, Australia, St. Helena, Rio Janeiro, the United States, 



and No. 1 Europe). Pears for sale in the market. 

 Mains sylvestris, (bis Yemen, Australia, Rio Janeiro, the United States, and No. 1 



Europe). Apples for sale in the market, but of inferior quality. 



