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calyx-scales biserial, the five or six outer ones long and linear; no floret-rays. In the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. Like the first, but more thickly tomentose, the leaves 



narrower and longer, full two inches in length ; the calyx-scales narrower and more 

 numerous. On the Alpaniarca mountain-peak. 



(No. 4); a fourth species. Densely tomentose; stem an inch high; leaves 



petioled, broad-ovate, acute at each end ; flowers large. Growing on the crest of the 

 Andes, where traversed by the Canta route. 



(No. 5) ; a fifth species. Having the habit of Culcitium ; six to nine inches 



high; lanate ; the leaves upright, lanceolate, with the margin undulate; four to six 

 flowers in a raceme ; calyx-scales in at least two series. On the Western declivity, a 

 little below the crest of the Andes. 



Gen. Culcitioid, (No. 2). Having the habit of the preceding plant; lanate, and 

 Gnaphalium-like ; leaves petioled, broad, the margin undulate; but the calyx-scales 

 about thirteen, and uniserial ; scape two inches high ; flower half an inch in diameter. 

 On the crest of the Andes, where traversed by the Canta route. 



(Werneria ? No. 2), gen. near Senecio; a congener of sp. of Chilian Andes. Stemless ; 

 the leaves linear, obtuse ; calyx monophyllous, with about eight short calyx-teeth ; 

 floret-rays whitish. In the tract of wet ground near Casa-Cancha. 



( , No. 3) ; a second species. Largest ; smooth ; leaves grass-like and linear, but 



rigid, pointed, subulate ; calyx monophyllous, having about ten calyx-teeth. In the 

 environs of Casa-Cancha. 



( , No. 4); a third species. Herbaceous, stemless, smooth; leaves ciliate, obtuse; 



a single central flower; about thirteen calyx-scales. On the Alpaniarca mountain-peak. 



( , No. 5). Stemless, smooth ; leaves succulent, spatulate, lanceolate, obtuse, ex- 

 tending beyond the rays of the large blue flower ; calyx naked, monophyllous, termi- 

 nating in ten or twelve calyx-teeth. In the environs of Casa-Cancha, and elsewhere in 

 the alpine region. 



( , No. 6) ; a congener ?, but no floret-rays. Smooth ; stemless, half an inch, grow- 

 ing in beds ; leaves narrow-linear, grass-like, or rather subulate and Juncus-like, more or 

 less recurved ; flowers discoidal, small ; calyx monophyllous at base, naked. In the en- 

 virons of Casa-Cancha, and on the crest of the Andes. 



Gen. (Wernerioid ?, No. 1). Stemless, with long hairs on both surfaces of the leaves ; 

 the leaves congested, a third of an inch long, narrow-obovate, obtuse, entire ; flowers 

 large, more than half an inch in diameter ; calyx monophyllous ?, or perhaps of uniserial 

 scales. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



Gen. Senecio-like, (No. 1). Stemless, smooth ; leaves petioled, broad, two-thirds of an 

 inch by one-third, lyrately-dentate ; flowers rayed, large, and yellow; calyx-scales about 

 twenty-four, uniserial. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



(No. 2). Stemless; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, entire, woolly at base; flowers rayed, 



yellow?, large ; calyx-scales about fifteen, uniserial. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



(No. 3). Stemless ; leaves an inch long, linear, with long soft hairs about the 



base; a single central flower, half an inch in diameter, the floret-rays yellow; about 

 thirteen long calyx-teeth. On the Alpaniarca mountain-peak. 



Coreopsis odoratissinia ? (compare No. 5 lower down, at Obrajillo in the mountain-region). 

 Now only four inches high; leaves dissected. In the environs of Casa-Cancha. 



