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BOTANY OF FEBNAKDO NOEONHA. 71 



scandens, Sckrad. ; itom. ^ Schult. Syst 



Mart 



means 



ifrw. ii. p. 170. 



Common in thickets on the Peak and in Chaloupe Bay, 

 scrambling over the lower plants, also on Eat Island. 



Known here as " Carapicho." There was a very tall and 

 stout erect or suberect form, 2| feet high, with thick stems, 

 growing in clefts of the rocks at Cape Placelliere. 



Distribution. South America, especially plentiful in Brazil. 



The heads adhere tightly to clothes, &c, by 

 recurved processes on the setae, and in this way the plant gets 

 carried about from place to place. 



S. catjdata, Boem. et Schult. Syst. ii. p. 495. — Panicum cau- 

 datum, Lam. Ill no. 893 ; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. p. 161. 



This is chiefly a woodland plant, forming in the Sapate in open 

 spots large tussocks very like those of Brachypodium sylvaticum, 

 the foliage being very plentiful and dark green. It was plen- 

 tiful in the Sapate, at Tangle Eock, and on the Peak. On Sella 

 Giueta and also on the Look-out Hill there was a smaller half- 

 prostrate form, with geniculate culms. 



The plant is called " Capinche." 



Distribution. Mexico to Brazil. 



Cekchrus vibidis, Spreng. Syst. i. p. 301 ; Doell in Mart. Fl. 









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Among ^Eschynomene hispida, on the slopes towards 



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Distrib 



Eat 



C. echinatus, L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, p. 1150 ; Doell in Mart. Fl 

 Bras. ii. p . 310, t. xliii.— C. puneens, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et 



Sp. i. tab. xliv. 



Peak 



Leao, Chaloupe Bay, S. Antonio Bay, and in the Sapate; 



common. 



Whole tropical world. A very troublesome weed, 



on account of its prickly burr-like spikelets. 



Mays 



Is 



and the grain 



Pernambuco. The huskinir of the maize and 



had 



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