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mony. ~In the centre of the flower a small worm is 

 almost always discoverable, whose body is composed 

 of eleven very distinct rings. A yellow is also ob- 

 tained from the poquel (santolina tinctoria) a spe- 

 cies of cress, with long and narrow leaves resem- 

 bling wild flax ; it puts forth three or four stalks 

 two feet in height, striated and crowned at the top 

 with a yellow semi-globular flower, composed of 

 several small ones. The stalks furnish a green 

 colour. 



The root of a perennial plant, called panic e (panke 

 tinctoria, gen. no v.) furnishes a fine black, and is 

 acknowledged to be one of the most useful plants in 

 Chili. Some writers have given it the name of 

 bardana Chilensis, from the resemblance of its leaves 

 to those of the burdock, although its fructification is 

 entirely diflerent. The root is very long, frequently 

 five inches thick, rough and black without, and 

 white within. The leaves are attached to long pe- 

 tioles, and are palmatcd ; they are of a bright green 

 above and ash- coloured beneath, frequently two 

 feet in diameter, and of a subacid taste. From 

 the centre of the radical leaves shoots up a single 

 stalk, five feet in height and three inches thick, co- 

 vered with a rough bark furnished with thorns. This 

 stalk has no leaves except at the top, where there are 

 three or four much smaller than those at the root, 

 surmounted by a large conical fasciculus, or bunch, 

 which produces the flowers and the seed ; the flowers 

 are white, a little inclining to red, bell-shaped, and 

 monopetalous ; the seed is greenish, round, and en- 

 closed in a capsule of the same form. 



