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21. Parasites on Beech Trees, Chili

" Robble, " literally oak, is the name given to the common large-leaved Chilian "Beech"(Nothofagus obliqua, Mirb.), which is represented here with a parasitic plant (Loranthus sp.) having very similar foliage, a common occurrence in

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12. Some Wild Flowers of Quilpue Chili

Beginning at the top on the right are the tufted leaves and hanging orange-red flowers of Lobelia salicifolia, Don, and intermingling with the foliage the graceful blue Conanthera bifolia, Ruiz et Pav. Next comes a green and white Chloraea and the sm

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828. View of the Bell Mountain of Quillota, Chili, with colonise

Among emigrant plants none has perhaps taken almost sole possession of such vast areas as the European Cardoon (Cynara Cardunculus, Linn.). which is the wild parent of the Jerusalem Artichoke. Both in Chili and east of the Andes in temperate South Am

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