Detris| LXXI. COMPOSITA, 547 
3. D. hyssopifolia. 
Aster hyssopifolius Berg, Pl. Cap. p. 287 (1767). 
Var. straminea, 
A hard rigid brittle shrublet, 3 to 5 in. high, more or less grey 
or hoary; rootstock woody, wiry; stem much branched at and 
near the base, decumbent or ascending, woody ; branches ascend- 
ing or erect, subterete or obtusely angular by the shortly 
decurrent midribs of the leaves, scabrid with stiff whitish 
ascending short bristles which arise from a thickened base, leafy 
below; leaves alternate, often crowded, linear or somewhat 
oblong, obtusely pointed or rounded at the apex, broad at the 
sessile base, 4 to 2 in. long, thick, uninerved, entire, spreading or 
ascending, yellowish-green and scabrid-hispid with whitish bristles 
on both faces ; the bristles arising from thickened glandular bases, 
short, rigid, spreading-ascending ; capitula hemispherical, about 
1 in. in diameter, many-flowered, radiate, straw-coloured, solitary, 
terminating the erect more or less scabrid peduncular extremities 
of the branches; involucral scales pluriseriate, sublinear or 
lanceolate, mostly acute, hispid on the back, ultimately spreading 
or reflexed, the innermost the longest } in. long, the outermost 
about 54, in. long ; ligule of the ray-florets exceeding the involucre, 
about =; in. broad; disk-florets hermaphrodite, multiseriate, 
numerous, + in. long, the corolla from a very narrowly cylindrical 
base narrowly funnel-shaped, shortly lobed, obsoletely puberulous 
outside, the lobes deltoid-ovate ; anthers with ovate lanceolate ap- 
pendages at the apex, obtuse and not appendaged at the base; style- 
branches rather short, with subdeltoid appendages ; achenes com- 
pressed, obovoid, puberulous, 51, in. long, with a slightly thickened 
hispidulous margin ; pappus uniseriate, } in. long, sordid-white, 
setose ; the sete minutely setulose, erect, brittle, arising from a 
small cartilaginous ring at the apex of the ovary, deciduous; 
receptacle depresso-convex, punctulate, naked. 
MossaMEDES.—In rocky maritime places at Praia de Amelia ; in 
late or past fl. July 1859. No. 3975. 
Perhaps a distinct species. 
15. ERIGERON L.; Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 279. 
1. E. linifolius Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. p. 1955 (1800) (dinzfoliwmy ; 
O, & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 308. 
Conyza ambigua DC. FI. Fr. Suppl. p. 468 (1815) ; Lowe, FI. 
Mad. i. p. 437 (1868). 
IsLAND OF MaperirA.—In neglected fields between Funchal and 
Camara dos Lobos; fl. and fr. August 1853. No. 3937. 
2. E. arthrotrichus Hiern, sp. n. 
A slender erect hispid scabrid annual herb, 6 to 15 in. high; 
stem leafy and simple for two-thirds of its height up to the 
inflorescence, pallid, striate, with the hispid hairs jomted above 
the tumid base and whitish above the articulation; leaves alter- 
nate or the lower ones sometimes opposite, linear-tapering, obtuse 
at the apex, sessile and slightly dilated at the base, yellowish- 
