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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Galium ericoides ? (No. 21). The leaves verticillate in fours. From Valparaiso to Cora- 

 covi. 



(No. 22) ; compare G. Tarmense of Hooker. Stem smoothisli ; leaves narrow, 



pointed, verticillate in fours ; fruit slightly pilose. In the environs of Valparaiso, and 

 also of Santiago. 



(No. 23). The fruit slightly granulate. Environs of Valparaiso. 



Rubia relbum, (No. 3). The fruit orange-colored. Frequent in the environs of Val- 

 paraiso. 



Macrorhynchus ? (No. 1) ; gen. Cichor. Tall ; the radical leaves runcinate. Environs 

 of Valparaiso. 



Mutisia ilicifolia ? (No. 2). Stemalate; leaves amplexicaul ; flowers, according to Mr. 



Brackenridge, "yellow." Mountain-ravines back of Valparaiso. 

 inflexa, (No. 3). Frequent from Valparaiso to the Middle mountain-region of 



the Andes. 



Piptocarpha excelsa, Hook. ; (No. 1). A tree, forty feet high with the trunk two feet in 

 diameter, the branches not spreading but densely coarctate ; the flowers clustered. On 

 the elevated mountain-ridge, that commences twelve miles South of Valparaiso. 



Pentaphorus ? (No. 1). A shrub, three to six feet high, rigid, the branches inclining to 

 become spinescent; leaves attenuate ; flowers clustered. From Santiago to the Middle 

 mountain-region of the Andes. 



? (No. 2); perhaps distinct from the preceding. Frequent in the environs of 



Valparaiso. 



Proustia pyrifolia, (No. 1). A subscandent shrub ; the leaves entire, downy beneath. On 

 the heights or mountain-slope back of Valparaiso. 



— — — ■ baccharoides, Don ; (No. 2). Leaves lanceolate, dentate, the under surface white , 

 flowers panicled. On barren hills in the environs of Santiago; rare. 



(No. 3). A large shrub ; leaves large, with the margin minutely spinuloso-serrate. 



Frequent in the environs of Valparaiso. 



(Chaatanthera ? No. 1); gen. Compos. Having something of the habit of Eriogonum j 

 the leaves incano-tomentose ; flowers red. On the " road to Santiago," Brackenridge. 



Gen. Compos. (No. 1). Boot woody; leaves linear; flowers yellow, with scarious calyx- 

 scales. Frequent from Valparaiso to the Andes. 



Chevreulia ? (No. 1). Old, and past flowering; leaves Gnaphalium-like, and very soft ; 

 pedunc. naked. Maritime ; growing on the sands of the sea-shore, North of Valparaiso. 



Triptilion (No. 1). Annual; leaves prickly; the flowers showy and sapphirine. Said 

 to be " frequent on the hills at Valparaiso immediately after the rainy season :" at the 

 time of our visit, not a vestige was visible. (The specimen presented to the Expedition.) 



Polyachyrus (No. 1). Stem long, and herbaceous ; leaves Mutisia-like, amplexicaul, 

 runcinate. " Maritime," Brackenridge. 



Foeniculum vulgare, (bis No. 1 Italy, Hawaiian Islands, &c.); fennel. Naturalized; 

 growing around houses. 



Daucus carota ? (bis Hawaiian mountain-region. New Zealand, Australia, North Patago- 

 nia, the United States, and No. 1 Europe); compare also D. Australis of Poeppig. 

 Naturalized ; and the root not fleshy. 



Centaurea Chilensis, Bert. ? (No. 7). Environs of Santiago. 



