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DISTRIBUTION OP PLANTS. 



Luzula (No. 11 ; compare No. 9 Terra del Fuego) ; like L. spicata. Six to nine inches 

 high ; long hairs on the stem. Frequent above Bancs, and in other portions of the 

 Paramera. 



Juncus (bis No. 40 lower down, in the mountain-region). Extending two leagues beyond 

 Culuay, or as far as the upper portion of the Paramera. 



Carex (No. 86). Three to five feet high; having the habit of C. atrata; but as many as 

 sixteen spikes, all androgynous, male at the apex ; carpels obtuse, shorter than the black- 

 ish scales. Growing above Culuay; rare; perhaps belonging properly lower down, to 

 the mountain-region. 



(No. 87) ; having the habit of C. ovalis. Three to six inches high ; spikelets 



about five at summit ; scales acute. In the Paramera, growing above Baiios ; rare. 



Stipa (No. 21). Twelve to eighteen inches high; having the habit of Calamagrostis ; 

 florets very small, only an eighth of an inch in length. In the Paramera, along the 

 ascent from Bancs. 



Agrostis (No. 36). Three to six inches high; panicle ccarctate, the florets very small. In 



the Paramera, along the ascent from Baiios. 

 Gen. Calamogrostoid, (No. 1). Eighteen inches high, cespitose, the radical leaves 



upright; calyx smooth; hairs at the base of the corolla; a geniculate awn. In the 



Paramera, growing above Culuay. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. Twelve to eighteen inches high ; the glumes longer. 



Vicinity of Bancs? 



Gen. Calamagrostis-like, (No. 1). Twelve to eighteen inches high; panicle congested; 



calyx-glumes long, the corolla-glumes very short, with hairs at the base ; no awns. 



In the Paramera, along the ascent from Baiios. 

 Trisetum (compare Terra del Fuego, and Chilian Andes) ; like T. subspicatum. Six to 



twelve inches high ; the florets smooth. In the Paramera, along the ascent from 



Bancs. 



Poa (No. 25). Having the habit of P. alpina; large loose sheaths; the florets large. 

 In the Paramera, along the ascent from Bancs. 



Festuca (No. 16). Twelve to eighteen inches high; the florets small, no awns. In the 

 Paramera, along the ascent from Baiios. 



Acrostichum ? (No. 19). Nine to twelve inches high; a long stipe, with the frond lanceo- 

 late ; fructification net seen. In clefts of rocks in the Paramera, above Baiios. 



" Nothochlaena ?" (No. 2). Three inches high, densely covered with chafls; the fructifi- 

 cation not seen. In clefts of rocks in the Paramera, above Baiios. 



Asplenium (No. 62); pinnulse very tenderly herbaceous, a third of an inch long, cuneate, 

 undulate. In clefts of rocks in the Paramera, above Baiios. 



(No. 63). Three inches high; frond dissected, the segments cuneate. In clefts 



of rocks in the Paramera, along the ascent from Baiios. 



(No. 64); near A. trichomanes; the segments broad, unequal. In clefts of 



rocks in the Paramera, along the ascent from Baiios. 



Pclytrichum (No. 11) ; a large woolly calyptra. In the Paramera, along the ascent 

 from liaiios. 



