nisi ad sumraitatera caulis, graciles, patenti-pilosi, basi membranaceo-vaginati, dilatati. PeduncuU axillares,
solitarii, petioli longitudine, uniflori. Flos mediocris. Sepalo patentia, elliptica, concava, extus pilis
appressis hirsutissima. Pelala 8-10, calyce longiora, flava, anguste elliptica, concava, lineata, breve ungui-
culata. Stamina plurima. Capitulum fructus globosum. Carpello sub-20, orbiculari-compressa, bevia,
margiuata, stylo mediocri paululura recurvato terminata.
H,u5. Conception.—The specimen here figured has the leaves nearly similar in form from the base to
the extremity of the stem, and thus" the peduncles which accompany them appear solitary and single-flowered.
But in others which we possess, gathered by Mr. Cruckshanks in the same country, the upper leaves gradually
become smaller, difierent in shape, narrower and tripartite, with the segments acuminated and entire,
whence the upper part of the stem resembles a bracteated pauicle.
Tab. III. Fig. 1, loner side of a sepal; Jig. 2, Exterior view of do.; Jig. 3, Petal; Jig. 4, Carpel;—wiaér-
rdjied.
Sect. E chinella.—§. Foliis dissectis lohatisve. DC.
3. R . muricalus; foliis glabris petiolatis suborbiculatis 3-lobis grosse dentatis, caule
erectiusculo aut diffuso, pedunculis oppositifoliis, calyce patente, carpellis utrinque tubercu-
loso-aculeatis in cornu acuminatum rectum desinentibus. DC .—L in n . Sp. PI. p . 780.
Lm n . Rl. t. 498. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p . 298. Prodr. v. 1. p . 42.—Ranunculus
palustris echinata. Fenili. Chit. v. 3. t. 18. (fig. mala.)
H ab. Conception.—Our Chilian specimens have the petioles dilated, which constitutes the character of
De Candolle’s var. s. brasilianus: but the same circumstance occurs in the North American individuals.
Mr. Douglas finds the species at Juan Fernandez : but as all the stations both in the southern states of
North America and in South America are near towns or cultivated places, -may it not have been imported
from Europe ? In Carolina, Elliott says, it is probably of exotic origin.
O r d . i r . B E R B E R T D E ^ . Vent.
1. BERBERIS. L.
1. B . glomerata ; spinis tripartitis, foliis rigidissimis cuneatis grosse 3-5-dentato-spino-
sis, floribus plurimis (8-10) in racemos vix folio longiores glomeratis.
Frutex valde ramosa; ramis brevibus, tuberculosis. Folia fasciculata, parva, 6-8 lineas longa, coriacea,
rigidissima, cuneata, basi attenuata, venosa, cartìlagineo-marginata, grosse 3-*5-dentato-spinosa. Racemi
axillares, vix foliis longiores, pendentes, bracteati ; bracteis subulato-lanceolatis, membranaceis, pedicello
longioribus. Flores flavi, parvi. Sepalo minuta, decidua. Pétala siccitate fusco-lineata.
H ab. Coquimbo.—This appears to be entirely an undescribed species, most nearly allied perhaps to
the B . mscijolia of Lam. Rl. t. 253, a native of Buenos Ayres : but that is a much larger plant, with
fewer flowers on the racemes, and differently shaped leaves.
O r d . I I I . F U M A R IA C E ^ . DC.
1. FUMARIA. Toum. De Cand.
1. F. capreolata. L in n .— De Cand. Prodr. v. \ . p . 130. Ejusd. Ic. R a r . t. 34.
Var..y. pedunculis erectis.
H ab. Var. y. Valparaiso.—In this variety the fruit is apiculated, as in F. parviflora; but the s
•e characteristic of the species.