40 ON THE BOTANY OF THE MALTESE ISLANDS IN 1874. 



horn to the fruit ; it is besides much more robust looking, and should 

 be distinguished at once by its greyer colour. It has been found also 

 in the Canary Islands, I^. Africa, Spain, the Balearic Islands, Italy, 

 Greece, Crete, and Turkey. 



Galium murale. All., Tar. b., Guss. I have a single specimen of 

 this from Rami a Bay, Gozo. 



Eubia peregrina, L. Del. Cat., 280. Kocky valley near Melleha, 

 Malta. 



Centranthus Calcitrapa, Dufr. Some specimens gathered on rocks 

 in Wied-el-Zasel approach very nearly the plant described in Sib- 

 thorp's "Flora Graeca," vol. i., p. 23, tab. 31, under the name 

 " Valeriana orliculata, Sibth." Its lower leaves instead of being 

 divided like the upper ones are orbicular and stalked. 



*Cotula aurea, L. {Perideroi a mirea, Willk., Fl. Hisp., vol. ii. 

 p. 90.) Turfy places on the old ramparts of Rabbato. It has been 

 found also in Spain, Portugal, and Egypt. 



^"Senecio pygmaeus, D C. Abundant this year] in Gozo in shady 

 places, especially near the sea, as at Cala Dueira and along the 

 coast near S. Dimitri ; Guirdon Hill (this is an inland station) ; Redun- 

 il-Kibir and Ramla ; Kala coast opposite to Comino, and Migiar Seini. 

 And in the Island of Cominetto I gathered a few specimens. There is 

 a description of this plant in DC. Prod., vol. vi., p. 341, and in Syn. 

 n. Sic, by Gussonc, who discovered it on the southern coast of Sicily, 

 near Cape Passaro. The following is a description of the Gozo plant : — 

 Lower leaves sinuate- dentate spathulate, and narrowing gradually 

 into the rather long stalk ; upper oblong subeutire o? subpinnatifid. 

 Heads of flowers usually solitary on long slender peduncles, Phyl- 

 laries (upper) oblong obtuse with a tuft of hairs at the apex, lower 5 

 the size of upper subulate with black tips, sometimes scattered below 

 on the peduncles. Rays none. Seeds puberulous equal in length to 

 the pappus. Plant with a few scattered white hairs, fleshy, erect, 

 sometimes much branched from the base, in which case the lower 

 branches are at first usually decumbent. Foliage dark green. As 

 to the size of the plant, I found it to vary from about an inch to 9 or 

 10 inches ; whereas the Sicilian plant was described as scarcely an 

 inch in height (" vix poUicaris "). 



*S. crassifolius, Willcl. Plentiful in the neighbourhood of^Cala 

 Dueira. 1 have also gathered it at Weid Xlendi, Gozo. It gives oft' a 

 slight smell of fennel when bruised. 



S. vernus, Z. Cliff's in the island of Comino. 

 *S. foeniculaceus, Ten, Damp ground, Cala Dueira, Gozo. 

 Helichrysum rupestre, DC. Del. Cat., 318. High cliffs at Cala 

 Dueira. 



(G.) Centaurea crassifolia, Bert. Del. Cat., 334. Cliffs on the 

 southern side of Gozo ; at Redun Ras Mahhrase, and between Wied 

 Xlendi and Ta Cenc, but mostly inaccessible. I find that the Gozo 

 plants differ from the Maltese in having their leaves decidedly serrate. 

 This is worthy ofmenticn, because Bertoloni, in his description of this 

 species, Fl. It., vol. ix., p. 428, makes *' foliis integerrimis " one of the 

 chief characters of the plant. I was rather early to see it in flower. 



Seriola aetnensis, L. Del. Cat., 348. Wied Xlendi, and near 

 Nadur in Gozo ; Island of Cominetto. 



