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mostly distinctly longer than the cal. — Koch 133 (var. a and /3) ; 
Bab. 55 (var. a). C. vulgatum Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 320, 
and Sp. PI. ; Desf. i. 365 ; also Wahlenb., Fr. (ex Koch). 
C. vulgatum a. Brot. i. 218. C. viscosum Linn. Herb. ! EB. 
t. 790; Sm. E. FI. ii. 330, 331 ; Hook. FI. Sc. i. 142, 143; DC. 
i. 416. — Herb. bien. or subper. Mad. reg. 2, 3, ccc. Mountain 
pastures, ravines, &c., everywhere above 1000 ft. May-Oct. 
chiefly. — St. 6-18 in. long widely branched and straggling, only 
erect or ascending when supported. L. ovate-oblong pointed. 
Hairs of pedic. and sep. more or less intermixed with viscid 
glands. Pet. as long as or rather longer than the sep. Caps, 
cylindric ascending twice as long and fruitstalks oft^n more 
than twice as long as cal. — An altogether coarser and larger pi. 
in all its parts than C. glomeratum, with longer rampant st., 
narrower 1. longer in proportion to their width, larger more 
branched and spreading cymes, longer pedicels, more scarious 
br. and sep. not tipped with hairs, and larger more conspicu- 
ous fl. 
ft Caps, nearly straight. Pet. shorter than the sep. 
3. C. TETRANDRUM Curt. 
Hairy-pubescent, glandular and viscid upwards ; st. forked 
from the base with aji. in each fork leafy, branches erect short 
numerous often densely tufted and pulvinate, sometimes de- 
cumbent at the base ; 1. oblong or oval mostly recurved, the 
upper ovate or lanceolate sessile, the lower oblong attenuated 
into long petioles, all acute ; br. wholly herbaceous broad and 
leafy altogether without scarious tips or margins oval or ovate 
acute or apiculate ; sep. lanceolate acute herbaceous with their 
tip and margins narrowly scarious ; fl. or rather fr. large, the 
former erect mostly tetramerous in forked leafy subcoiwmbose 
cymes, not aggregate or fascicled ; pet. bifid and much shorter 
than the sep. ; fruitstalks straight mostly erect 2-3 times as long 
as the sep. ; caps, as long as or rather longer than the sep. with 
mostly 8 very short and obtuse or truncate shallow teeth. — 
Sm. E. Fl. ii. 332 ; Koch 133 ; Bab. (ed. 4) 55. C. atrovirens 
and C. tetrandrum Bab. (ed. 1) 52, 53. Sagma cerastoides EB. 
t. 166 (a drawn-up luxuriant garden state of the pi.). — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 4, and upper part of 3 ; r. Highest summit of 
Pico Grande, top of the Paul ; “ peaks above the Icehouse,” I)r. 
C. Lemann. J uly, Aug. — Habit and pale colour of C. glomeratum 
Thuill. but of much smaller humbler growth and size, being not 
more than 2 or 3 in. high. Fruitstalks in both native and cul- 
tivated Madeiran plants almost always erect, rarely patent or a 
little deflexed or declining, but never so far as I have seen 
reflexed, and usually not more than twice the length of the 
sep., often in the upper fl. less. A few fl. (the primary or lower 
