Abstract
Flora of Chile.*-The Republic of Chile has been well described as an immense ribbon-like strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, more than 2600 miles long and somefimes less than 50 miles wide, and it is a far cry indeed from the arid deserts of Atacama, in the north, to the wild tempestuous regions of the Patagonian ice-cap and Tierra del Fuego. Many of our famous garden plants have come from this country: one calls to mind at once Araucaria, Azara, Embothrium, Escallonia or Fuchsia, as examples of trees and shrubs, and Alstroemeria, Calceolaria, Gunnera, Salpiglossis and Schizanthus, among the herbs. Hitherto, the only work approaching a complete flora of Chile was that of Claude Gay, which appeared between 1845 and 1854, and lacked formal keys. Karl Reiche's Estudios Criticos de la Flora de Chile (1896-1911) was on
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