the cullings

From Reports of
The Princeton University
Expeditions
to Patagonia (1896-1899)



A creeping small,
glabrous with short
truncate
ligules.

Dorsally scabrous,
subapically awned,
the awn exceeding the flower.

Stems clustered from a running
rootstock.

Very closely imbricating,
distichous,
ovate,
more or less silky.

Obtuse, their margins, thin-purplish.

Cleft from the middle, moderately
bulbous-thickened at base.

Small, handsome.
Often curved,
leafless.

Floating, stemless, pubescent
with fibrous roots.

Dense tuft,
in simple and compound
umbels.

One third way leafy.

Having a straight cylindrical
calyx-tube.

Erect,
annual,
hairy,
FOOT LONG!

Flowers numerous, somewhat
salver-shaped and nutant,
and rather obscured.

The labellum, its rostrum
winged.
LABELLUM! ROSTRUM! WINGED!

Leaves and stems unknown,
yet common in mountains,
certain meadows.

Leaves all radical.
Nerves slightly
or not
projecting from the surface.

Fruit a drupe.

Dense bush,
with leafage of boxwood.

PENDULOUS & FIVE-TOOTHED!

At length distending
and rupturing
the calyx.

Placentae fleshy,
central.

Cosmopolitan,
8-12 ribbed,
yet abounding in the tropics of


Magellan, moist pastures of
Fuegia and Falklands,

Of North Patagonia, near the mouth
of Rio Negro,

At confluence of Rivers
Limay and Neuquen

– in the rainy zone as high as man –

By Hatcher at Coy Inlet,
Nov. 18th
year not noted.