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It appears to me that two very distmct species of this genus have been confounded, partly together, and partly
with the A.temlU, L.. of Em-ope. The fii-st is confined to the damp western portions of midffie and southei-1
Chili, Euegia, and the Falkland Islands, and there are two or perhaps thi-ee vai-ieties of it ; I take it to he the
A . alternifolia of CavaniUes, a variable plant, with the peduncles of the same length as. or not mnch exceeding, the
leaves, and the capsule shorter than the calyx. The figm-e of that author is very inaccurate and at variance with his
description ; for the plant is represented erect, instead of creeping, and the leaves scattered, though said to be, approximate.
Supposing CavaniUes’ plant to form one variety of rt. alternifolia, a second is larger and also creeping, with
prostrate branches, 8 -1 0 inches long, beai-ing broader, rounded and more acute leaves; it has been collected in
Valparaiso by ll r . Cuming and Mr. Bridges. A third, intermediate between tbis and the Fuegian form, has the
leaves more crowded, ovate-oblong, and smaUer; it is possibly the state figured by CavaniUes. and bas been’gathered
at Coircepcion by Capt. King, at Valdivia by Mr. Bridges, and on the Andes of Mendoza by Dr. GiUies {Rmllia
cæspitosa, GUI. MSS. ; and Anagallis herpestoides, GUI MSS.). The fourth variety is what I have caUed densifolia ;
its leaves and stem are much smaller and crowded, and the whole plant is succulent.
Another extra-tropical South American Anagallk is the A.filiformis. Link, (rt. tenella, ß.filiformis St Hil )
which approaches A. tenella so very closely, that M, St. HUaire has united them specificaUy. I t differs fi-om
rt. alternifolm in the leaves being opposite, the stem slender, the peduncles longer, the calycine pieces nan-ower and
twice as long as the capsule, and the whole plant not so suceulent ; from the Em-opean rt. tenella in the leaves never
being so broad, in the longer peduncles and rigid stems.
The seAety densifolia has a large capsule, always eqiialUiig the calyx in length, thus differing from the plant
figured by CavaniUes. The capsule, though described by D’UrviUe as having the dehiscence of e Lysmacliia, evidently
opens transversely in the specimens I have examined, though it is sometimes, from pressure, spUt at the top also.
Its habit resembles the Abyssinian A. sei-pena. Höchst.
3. SAMOLUS, L .
1. Samolüs lUtoralis, Brown, Frodr. p. 428. Buhg in BC. Frodr. vol. x. p. 7 3 . Sclieflieldia repens
Forst. Nov. Gen. p. 18. t. 9.
H a b. Chonos Arcliipelago and Cape Tres Montes, C. Darwin, Esq.
A plant common to New HoUand, New Zealand, and South Chib, and very variable in the size of its parts in
aU these countries. I have not seen ChUian specimens from a lower latitude than Valdivia, between which and
Cape Tres Montes it seems limited.
2. Samolus <i
vol. V. p. 56. t.4 8 4 . f. 1.
!, Duby, in BC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 74. Androsæa spathulata.
H ab. Strait of Magalhaens ; P o rt Gregory, Capt. King. EHzabeth Island, C. Darwin, Esq.
The raceme, in most of Capt. King’s specimens, is so much abbreviated that the flowers are almost capitate
The range ofthe species, between Fort Desire and the Strait of Magalhaens, is remarkably limited.
XXXVIII. LENTIBULARIEÆ, Rich.
1. PING U ICULA, Linn.
1. PINGUICUIA Antarctica, Vahl, Enum. p. 192. Alph. DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 31. P. obtusa
et Sol. MSS. in Bibl. B a n h . (Ta b. CXIX.) '
H a b. Strait of Magalhaens ; P o rt Pamine, Capt. King ; Good Success Bay, Banhs
south part of Fuegia, C. Barwin, Esq.; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, T. B . II.
A veiw pretty little plant, the representative of the British Kngnmda Lusiianka, L., from wlueh it differs m
the nan-ower segments of the coroUa and shorter spur. It is not uncommon on moist rocks m Fuegia.
P late CXIX. Eig. 1, lateral, a n d /y . 2, front view of flower ; flg. 3, calyx, germen, and stamens ; / y 4, stamen ;
Juj. 5, germen ;/ y . 6, transverse section of the ovarium ; fig. 7, ripe fruit; fig. 8, s e e d ;/y . 9, embryo ; - a I l rnagmfled.
XXXIX. PLUMBAGINEÆ, Juss.
1. STATICE, Tonrn.
S t a t i c e r tm m « ,L i n n .,S i ,.P / . p .394. Engl. Bo t. t.2 2 K S. cæspitosa, P rire f, S c y c L p. 235. Gaud,
in Ann. Sc. N a t. vol. v. p. 102. B ’ Urv. in Mém. Soc. L in n . Paris, vol. iv. p. 608.
Var. f t alpina ; Ed. Cat. p. 2. Hooh. B r it. Fl. p. 270.
H ab V-ar.a, Strait of Magalliaens, Commerson; P o rt Pamine, Capt. K in g ; FaUdand Islands, most
abnndant near the sea ; Gaudichaud, ^ c . Var. f t on the mountains of Fnegia, C. Barwin, Esq., -J. B . U.
There can I think, be no question as to this being identical with the f t rtn om a of the northem hemisphere ; if
auy specific or other distinction exists, it has eluded Mr. Watson’s and my exammation. Both as an alpme and
especially as a sea-side plant, its habits are those of the common Sea-Fmk.
XL. PLANTAGINEÆ, Veuten.
1. PLANTAGO, Linn.
1. PLAXT.AGO maritima, Linn., Syi. F l. p. 165. Engl. Bo t. 1 .175. P . juncoides, Lam.. Illu st. Gen.
11. 1683.
H a b . Strait of Magalhaens; P o rt Famine and P o rt Gregory, Capt. King.
I am not aware of any South American stations for this plant except those mentioned above; it is also a
native of the Cape of Good Hope, but not ot Australia or New Zealand.
2. P lantago barbata, Forst.; laxe cæspitosa simplex v. ramosa, foliis erectis stellatim patentibus
recurvisve lineari-lanceolatis anguste lineari-elongatisve subacutis camosis remote dentatis basi scanosis
barbatis glabratisve, peduneuhs foho subæquantibus, spicis 1-3-floris, capsulæ late obovatæ medio circum-
scissæ parte inferiore calycem vix excedente. P. barbata, Eorst. Comm. Goett. vol. ix. t. 4. P . paucifiora,
Lam. Illu st. Gen. n. 1684. P. paucifiora, f t parva, Barneoud Monogr. Plantag. p .l7 . P . polymorpba. B ank s
et Sol. M S S . in Bibl. B a n h . earn icons.
Var. a, barbata; foliis steUatim patentibus spatbulato-lanceolatis dentatis basi barbatis.
Var. f t elongata ; caule simpbciuscido, foliis erectis anguste et longissime lineari-spathulatis obtusis
remote smuato-deiitatis basi barbatis.
K x e .y ,im b e rUs; caule ramoso, foliis patubs lanceolatis obtusis remote dentatis basi sub-barbatis.
P. imberbis. Hook.fil. MS S . in P a r t I . p. 6 6 .
H a b . V ar.a, Strait of MagaUiaens, Commerson; Tierra del Puego, Banks and Solander, Forster.
Vai-. f t P o rt Gregory, Capt. King. Var. y. P o rt Famine, Cagit. King.
A hiriily vai-iable plant ; always, however, in all the specimens which I have examined, retainmg the characters
of a short capsifle dehiscing across the middle, the broad lower half of ivhich is as long as, or very bttle longer
than the calyx, and of a diflerent form from the narrow obeonical elongated airalogous organ of P. rmmnUms,