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Pterocephalus Broussonetii Coult. Dry bushy hills and sandy 

 places ; frequent ; 5-6. Tall, with smaller blue heads than either 

 of the Scabiosce. II. Deb. III. i. Cork Woods! Alcadeza and 

 elsewhere ! ii. M. de la Torre ! Hills north of Algeciras ! 

 iii. Near Los Barrios Station ! About Salt Pans ! 



Scabiosa maritima L. var. grandiflora Boiss. Dry hills and 

 bushy places ; very common ; 5-6. The type, not recorded, has 

 heads of medium size, corolla lilac rose, or yellowish, ovate- 

 cylindrical in fruit. Var. grandiflora has flowers and heads 

 twice the size, cylindro-conical in fruit, lower leaves serrate, not 

 deeply incised. I. ! III. ! 



Var. atroimrpurea Boiss. Flowers dark or blackish purple. 

 The flowers vary in shade, but I have never seen any approach- 

 ing the atropurjMrea of horticulturists. I. Eare, K. III. ii. 

 Sands at Algeciras, Nilss. 



S. stellata L. Similar places ; rather common, especially in 

 III. ii, ; 5-7. I. Eare? III. i. By Lajo! Alcadeza Crags, &c. ! 

 ii. ! iii. Occasional ! 



Pycnocomon rutcefoliuvi Hoffm. & Link. var. bcsticiim Lge. 

 (Scab, urceolata Desf. var. bipinnatisecta Boiss.). Sand-dunes ; 

 very common ; 5-8. The variety is taller, 2-4 ft., heads twice 

 the size and more radiant, and phyllaries connate to one-third, 

 instead of half their length. II. 1 III. ! 



Composite. 



Eupatorium cannabinum L. Marshy ground; locally fre- 

 quent; 6-8. III. i. Cork Wood Sotos ! 



Bellis annua L. Open grassy places ; abundant ; 12-5. 

 Small simple forms are var. minuta DC. A form with lavender, 

 not at all pink or red ray florets, is abundant on Neutral Ground 

 and by Devil's Tower. I. Behind the Grand Stand and by 

 Devil's Tower! Debris at foot of Forts, K. II. ! III. ! 



B. perennis L. Similar place ; rare ? 2-5. Closely resembles 

 small states of B. sylvestris, but its disc achenes are glabrous on 

 the edge, not ciliate. The faces in both are puberulous. I. ? K. 

 III. i. Cork Woods near Almoraima ! 



B. sylvestris Cyr. Open fields and woods ; rare on Eock, 

 abundant in Spain; 11-5. I. Top of Mediterranean Steps and 

 towards Breakneck Battery ! Above oil tanks beyond Catalan 

 Bay ! III. ! Grows 18 in. high in the mountains ! 



Var. pappulosa Lge. Achenes with a short setose pappus, is 

 said to be commoner in the province than type. I. Eavines on 

 west slopes, K., D. III. i. South slopes of San Eoque, Boiss, D. 

 ii. S. de Palma, Bev. 



iB. rotundifolia B. & E. Woods and higher mountain slopes ; 

 locally very common ; 1-5. Willkomm and Lange and Perez 

 Lara state that only var. hispanica Wk. is found in Spain. It is 

 stoloniferous and has a much longer pappus. I have dug up 

 dozens of plants and never saw a trace of a stolon, nor is the 

 pappus long. The leaves vary from deeply reniform to truncate, 

 and at lower elevations, where it overlaps B. sylvestris, they are 



