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leayet of which there are, at least in Capt. Gill’s uananat always 
four, the two exterior considerably narrower than the two interior ; 
and lastly the achenes, which are smaller than and differently shaped 
from those of C. glomerata, and much more markedly costate and 
beaked than they are. 
The largest Kew specimen is about 8 cm. high, and nearly 
9 cm. in diameter at the top. 
Lacruca Warsonrana 'l'release. The crue hs “ A: plant alluded 
to in Mr. H. atson’s list of Azores Plants (Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. iii. 615 (1844) ) as a ‘ larger-leaved plant, siihhiy a Com- 
posita,’’ has never been cleared up. In Godman’s Azores, Mr. bly 
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wrote (p. 187) :—‘‘ Another Lactuca, of uncertain specific na 
mentioned by Drouet [Flore des Iles Agores, p. 98] as inhabiting the 
Caldeira in Fayal. This may be the larger-leaved Composita men- 
tioned at the end of my former catalogue.’”’ In 1896 spies 
Professor Trelease’ s Botanical Observations on the Azores, and there 
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on looking through the undetermined Composite at the Museum, 
I was fortunate in finding an old specimen, collected by Masson at 
Fayal in 1777, which Mr. Britten and I at once recognized as 
L. Watsoniana. To the fact of this utes being without flowers 
is doubtless due its relegation to the end of Composite, a very goo 
‘*shot’’ at the natural order having been made. The leaves of 
s specimen are larger than those of Drouet’s, the largest 
reaching 20 cm. in length by 18 em. across at the widest part, 
The longest petioles are no less than 24 cm. eg This very fine 
plant I could not find in the Herbarium at 
Aptosimum Randii, sp.nov. Pilis ats tiebnbule: pubescens, 
ramulis ascendentibus abbre viatis dense foliosis, foliis elongatis 
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nentibus apice pungenti-apiculatis membranaceis in sicco 
viridibus, floribus subsessilibus, bracteis linearibus calyci sub- 
equilongis, calycis brevissime tubulosi lobis linearibus corollam 
semisequantibus, corolle tubo deorsum attenuato mox ampliato 
ipso sub limbo iterum leviter attenuato ejus lobis inter pr sub- 
equalibus, staminum ——- antheris eas stt. posticorum duplo 
la 
capsu sursn 
Hab. Belew. > a From Rand, Dec. 1897 (Herb. Brit. 
us.). 
Caulis 5°0-6:0 cm. altus, rigidus, rufo- villosulis, — Internodia 
pauca oe usque 0°5 em. long., pleraque vero breviora. Folia 
modice 6-0-8°0 cm. long., medio 0°35-0°5 em. lat. puberula, 
mnrginibas albo-villosulis mox ciliolatis. Bractew vix 0°1 em. lat., 
sursum attenuate, villosule. Calycis lobi usque ad 0°15 em. coaliti, 
1-0 em. lami: acuminati, villosuli. Corolla tota 2-0 em. long., J 
