B O T A N Y
CAPTAIN BEECHEY’S VOYAGE.
C H IL I.
[Visited Valparaiso in October and November, 1825; and again Valparaiso and Coquimbo in May, 1828.]
After the investigations of Feuillce, of Ruiz and Pavon, of the Naturalists of the Russian Expedition
under Capt. Kotzebue, partly made known by Chamisso and Schlechtendal in the different volumes of the
Linniea, and of Mi% Macrae, Dr. Gillies, and Mr. Cruckshanks, some of whose collections have been
described in the Botanical Magazine and Register, and in the Botanical Miscellany, it is not to be expected
that this portion of Capt. Beechey’s Herbarium should be of a very novel nature, particularly as the
Naturalists had but little opportunity of visiting the interior of the country.
Cl. I. DICOTYLEDONE^.
SuBCL. I . T H A L A M I F L O R ^ . B C .
O rd . I. R A N U N C U L A C E ^ . Juss. DC.
1. ANEMONE. DC .
1. A . decapetala; foliis radicalibus profunde trilobis tripartitisve lobis rotundato-
cuneatis subincisis, involucralibus sessilibus tripartito-multifidis laciniis linearibus acutis,
sepalis 10-12 lineari-oblongis, capitulo oblongo densissime lanato. (T a b . I.)—L in n . Mant.
p . 79. B e Cand. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p . 200. Prodr. v. 1. p . 19.—A. trilobata. Juss. Ann.
du Mus. V. 3. p . 248. t. 21. f . 3.—A. macrorhiza. Bomb. Herb, (fide B e Cand.)
Radix tuberosa ; tubero solitario, oblongo, fibroso, vix unciam longo. Folia omnia radicalia, circumscrip-
tione cordato-rotundata, profunde trífida vel tripartita, hirsuta, júniora pnecipue; lobis subrotundo-cimeatis,
i’emote dentatis, incisisve. PeUolus poliicaris, dense pilosus. Scapus spithamícus ad pedalem, hirsutus,
superne pnecipue, pilis erecto-patentibus, uni-biflorus. Involucra involucellaque triphylla'j foliolis sessilibus,
tripartito-multifidis, basi dilatatis, segmentis linearibus, acutis, primum dense pilosis, demum glabríusculis.
Pedicellus digitalis ad palmarem, erectus, hii-sutus. Sépala patentia, albo-ccerulescentia, lineari-elliptica,
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