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55. Umbilicus hispidus (Lam.), DC. iii. 399 ; Cotyledon hispidn, 

 Desf. i. 359. — A small Sedum-like plant 2-4 inches high, with 

 rather conspicuous handsome blush or pale pink flowers, large in 

 proportion, smooth obtuse fleshy roundish tapering leaves, and 

 with the branches of cyme, pedicels, and calyx pubescent. 



57. Sedum reflexum, L., /3 Koch. — Not seen in flower, but per- 

 fectly resembling S. glaucum, Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 2477. 



58. JEryngium ? — The species indeterminable, owing to the 



young state of the specimen. Desfontaines enumerates no less 

 than 8 Algerian species. 



61. Bupleurwn canescens, Schousb. ? — The specimens not being 

 in flower or fruit, and having the leaves distinctly 5-nerved in- 

 stead of many-nerved, as they are, according to DC. iv. 133, in 

 Schousboe's Mogadorian plant, may possibly belong to some 

 other shrubby species of the genus. They agree, however, better 

 with the diagnosis of B. canescens, Schousb., than with that of any 

 other species recorded by Desfontaines or DeCandolle. 



62. Daucus rnaximus, Desf. i. 241 ; DC. iv. 212. — Fl. white or 

 flesh-coloured ; central (abortive) fl. purplish-black. Segments of 

 leaves mucronate, ovate in the lower, linear-oblong or lanceolate 

 in the upper leaves. Differs from B. hispidus, Desf., (1) in the 

 larger white or flesh-coloured (not " pallide flavi ") radiant flowers ; 

 (2) in the distinctly mucronate acute (not "obtuse") ultimate 

 laciniae or segments of the leaves ; (3) in the much larger general 

 bracts or involucres, which are as long as the primary rays of the 

 umbel. It differs again from D. parviflorus, Desf, in (1) and (3), 

 and further in the close crowded umbel. Its nearest ally is un- 

 doubtedly B. Carota, L., as observed by Desfontaines ; and it also 

 very much resembles, if it is not identical with, a plant which 1 

 found abundantly in Teneriffe, especially at Souzal, half way be- 

 tween Laguna and Orotava, but with which I am unable at the 

 moment to compare it. Tet Webb in his Phytogr. mentions only 

 two Canarian species, B. parviflorus and B. aureus, Desf., from 

 both of which species, as from the Madeiran B. neglectus, Lowe, 

 the Mogadorian plant differs in several important points. 



. 65. This is probably Bubia longifolia, Poir., yet not perhaps 

 sufficiently distinct specifically from B. peregrina, L., although 

 with a wholly different aspect from the figure of that plant in 

 Engl. Bot. t. 851. It is much less prickly and clinging or ad- 

 hesive than the common Madeiran B. angustifolia, L. The stem 

 and leaves are decidedly "perennial," the former suffrutescent, 

 the leaves narrow linear elongate. 



