Botanical specimens collected in South America by A.E. Douglass of Harvard College Observatory

Botanical Specimens collected in South America by A.Douglasse of Harvard College Observatory. Each package or box has one or more numbers pasted upon it. The contents of the packages are as follows: 1. Pressed specimens, Grappler Bay, Smythe's Channel (near western entrance to Straits of Magellan) Collected May 10, 1893. 2. Tin box of dried specimens from Yungas Valley 20 to 80 miles east of La Paz Bolivia. Altitudes 2500 to 15600 feet. 1892 (May contain other specimens in top of box) Small white violets from "Cumbre" of Yungas Road - 15600 ft in altitude. 3, 4, 6. Balsom Bog, hill back of Stanley, East Falkland Island, Collected May 17, 1893 4 & 5. "Tola" TOLA from Charchani, a mountain near Arequipa, 16400 ft altitude. Collected May 21, 1892 Used for fuel in Northern Chile (See Squires trip from Arica to Desaguadero in his book of researches in Peru) 6. See 3 7. Leña del Rey, near Arequipa. Tree 6 to 10 ft high at altitudes 12000 to 14000 ft. Used for fuel. 8. Chuños Blancos. Frozen potatoes, used as food in

Perú Titicaca Basin and Bolivia. 9. End of Kelp (?) stem, from Cove South of Stanley East Falkland. May 17, 1893. Was formerly 3 or 4 inches in diameter, 10. Cactus flowers, Anguila. 1892. Dried by exposure to the air. 11. Chirimoya Seeds. 12. Chiefly flowerless plants (in cigar box) from Graffler Bay. May 10."93 (See No 1.) Has specimen similar to Garata (Anguila 16,000 ft) and to Balcon Berg (No 3.) 13. Similar specimens (in tin box). From same place 14. Seaweed (?) (in cigar box), from Cove back (South) of Stanley East Falkland. May 17, 1893 15. (In cigar box) Sponges from same place as 14, peat and plants from hill back of Stanley. May 17, 1893 16. Cactus that has a brilliant crimson flower. from Maravillas, Titicaca Basin. Oct 1892. 17. (In brown paper) Fresh water algae - 13,900 ft alt. Near Saracocha in Titicaca Basin - Oct 1892. 18. Plant probably from Maravillas, Titicaca Basin Oct 1892 19. Lichens from Meteorological Station on Charchani near Anguila, 16,650 ft alt. 20. Small sponges (?) (in brown paper) probably from same place,

3. 21. Parco, plant from Charchani, 16400 ft alt. Collected May 21, 1892. This plant made into a tea is used by the natives for liver trouble. 22. Esquera. - composite white flowers. Charchani, 16400 ft alt. May 21, 1892. Administered by the natives for lung troubles. 23. (In large cigar box) different plants from Charchani, 16400 ft alt. May 21, 1892. Contains Yarata (mouldy now) Parco, Esquera, plant like running pine (which in this case grows in a solid circular bed, several feet in diameter of a tall pole green stick.) Y Y. 24. Lichens probably from Meteorological station Charchani, 16400 to 17000 ft alt. Dec. 91, 25. Twigs once green & bearing flowers, from the Misti, a volcano near Arequipa. About 15000 ft alt. May 1, 1891. 26. Moss from steam vent near summit of Misti. 19000 ft alt. Collected May 1, 1891, AEDouglas, Harvard Observatory, Jan. 12, 1894