Mr LOWE, ON MADERAN BOTANY. .539 



islets of these shores, as if it were Gnajihalium crassifolium \j. Neither 

 must it be confounded, I am advised by the Chevalier De Candolle, with 

 the European fMajorcai plant, Gn. crasfiifolium Lam.: nor yet with a third 

 species similarly named, Gn. crassifolium Willd. Its real affinity, the 

 Professor writes, is with a fourth plant, which has also been confounded 

 with G71. crassifolium L., viz. Gn. ovatum Desf. ; and with this, he is 

 disposed to unite it into a genus, or at least a group, co-ordinate with 

 the other Gnaphalian sections, or subgenera. That it is no true Anten- 

 tiaria either in characters or habit is most certain. Speaking strictly, 

 it is perhaps intermediate between Helichrystim and Gnaphalium .- though 

 I could be well content to refer it simply to the former genus. 



S3. Chrysanthemum dissectum, nob. 



C. fruticosum, glaberrimum : foliis profunde pinnatifidis ; pinnis re- 

 niotis, parallelis, ajqualibus, linearibus, rectis, argute inciso-dentatis ; la- 

 ciniis omnibus acutis : floribus subsolitariis, vix corymbosis s. corymbo 

 irregulari, paucifloro. 



C. grandiflorum (W.) Spr. Syst iii. 584. No. 6? 

 Hab. in rupe quadam excelsa maritima Maderse, Cabo Giram dicta. 

 Species hal)itu seminibusque C. pinnatifidt \a. in Madera ubique obvii, 

 sed distinctissima, floribusque minoribus. 



34. Calendula maderensis, nob. 



C. biennis subperennansve, basi sufFrutescens. ramosa, viscosa: foliis 

 semiamplexicaulibus, obovato-oblongis, repando-dentatis ; junioribus ra- 

 niulisque tomentosis : seminibus arete inflexis, muricatis ; exterioribus 

 cymboideis, late triquetro-alatis ; alis duabus dorsalibus expansis, inciso- 

 dentatis. 



C. maritima, nob. Bot. Misc. New Series, I. p. 36 ; baud Gussone. 



C. amplexifolia, Reichb. in Holl's List? 



Hab. in littore, rupibusque maritimis oree preesertim septentrionalis 

 Maderte. 



Flores majusculi, crocei, ligulis paucioribus, longioribus quam in 

 C. officinali I.i. aut arvensi I^. 



Nomen mutavi ob C maritimnm, Gus.sone. 

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