352 REDISCOVEKY OF CENTAL'REA MASSONIANA IN MADEIRA. ^ 
wlio tlihiks we are riglit in so i-egarding tlicm, and informs us tliat one 
would be called vero-elatiim^ the other elato-verum. The first we found 
on a bank about two miles from Plymouth^ where it gi-OAvs between a 
mass of G. elatum and a patch of verum. The latter, which is pro- 
bably the G. verum, (i. ochroleucum, of ^ English Botany/ 3rd edit., 
we collected from the edge of a cliff, near Wembury, where G. veruin 
abounds and G. elatum occurs. We think we have seen a similar 
plant on a cliff at Whitsand Bay. 
10, Torrinr/ton Place^ FId/mouth, July 20, 1865. 
EEDISCOVERY OF CENTAUREJ MASSONIANJ, Lowe, 
IN MADEIRA. 
Masso 
which, since its discovery by Masson, in Madeira, nearly ninety years 
ago, has escaped the researches of all other botanists, has at length 
been rediscovered in the very spot in which it was originally found, 
namely, the perpendicular face of the high sea-cliff between the Pico do 
Eancho and Cabo Gii^ao, on the south coast of Madeira, five or six 
. miles west of Fuuchal. Here, indeed, I have myself repeatedly looked 
for it in vain ; and the same ill-success has attended the efforts of Senhor 
J- M. Moniz and many others to whom I had communicated the pre- 
cise locality assigned by Masson to his example still preserved in the 
lum 
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Madeir 
to tell me that a Portuguese collector of botanical specimens, formerly 
employed as a gardener, and to whom a year or two ago I had my- 
self indicated the locality, having fii'st espied the plant, he accom- 
panied the man in June last to the spot ; and there, " below the edge 
of the cliff in dangerous places,'' Captain Norman writes, " I had no 
difficulty in descrying a large, handsome, deep-pink-flowered Centaurea, 
which greu' in large perennial-looking tufts or bushes, and on further 
examination I saw five or six more, as well as a few scattered single- 
flowering plants. I can well understand their having been overlooked, 
for they grow in a difficult locality, and, newed from the distance at 
which I should certainly have only viewed them if I had not specially 
known what to look for, would not, I lliink, be distinguished &om the 
