BANTJNCULTJS. 
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ii. 367; EB. t. 652; DC. 1. 36; Sm. E. FI. iii. 51; Presl 16; 
Koch 18 ; Bab. 10. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2 ; rrr. Palheiro, 
chestnut woods by the road outside, and in fields inside, the 
Park, whence it has evidently straggled. Up the Caminho do 
Meio, S r J. M. Moniz. Apr.- June. — St. stout hollow branched 
2-3 ft. high. El. bright y. Sep. erecto-patent, not reflexed. 
Beak about £ the length of ach. 
3. It. BEPENS L. 
Hairy pubescent ; st. mberect few-flowered with long creeping 
stolons ; root-1, temate and bitemate, leaflets trifid cut and 
toothed ; pedic. furrowed ; sep. pubescent spreading ; ach. oval 
smooth marginate finely punctate, with a rather long slightly 
hooked beak ; recept. hairy. — Brot. ii. 366 ; DC. i. 38 ; EB. t. 516 ; 
Sm. E. FI. iii. 51, 52 ; Presl 17 ; Koch 19 ; Bab. 10. — Herb, 
per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3 ; ccc. All the year. Moist grassy places 
everywhere. — St. (primary) erect 6-12 in. high. Side-shoots 
widely spreading prostrate and rooting. L. dark gr. often 
spotted or blotched with darker. FI. bright y. 
** Leaves divided. FI. y. Nectary with a scale. Ach. com- 
pressed lenticular marginate rugose tubercular or muricate. 
Boot fibrous. 
4. R. TMLOBUS Desf. 
Smooth or nearly so ; st. erect subrobust and firm much 
branched ; root-l. roundish undivided crenate, the rest 3-partite 
with the segments wedgeshaped cut and toothed ; pedic. oppo- 
site the l. furrowed ; sep. reflexed : pet. subabortive 3-4, rarely 
5. oblong scarcely or not longer than the sep. ; disk of ach. 
bluntly warted or tuberculated all over. — Desf. 1. 437. t. 113 ; DC. 
1. 42 ; Presl 19; WB. ! i. 10 (excl. var. /3. rhceadifolius). — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; r. May, June. — St. 12-15 in. high branched 
from the base, stout and upright, more or less erect ; herbage 
pale gr. FI. small inconspicuous pale y. Ach. with a broad short 
curved beak, the smooth broadish rim or margin remaining gr. 
longer than the bluntly granulated disk, which soon turns tawny 
brown. The whole pi. is of very short duration. — Var. : 
a. glabra ; nearly or quite smooth. — Yar. a. Fontanesii WB. ! 
h c. — Ascent out of the Cayadas Ravine beyond Camaclia, wet 
places by the roadside. Maxico, wet ditches and places on the 
beach. 
1 3 • subjyilosa ; st. 1. and sep. more or less hairy ; st. somewhat 
spreading or diffuse. — Borders of cornfields by the road between 
S. Vicente and the Encomiado, in drier situations than a. 
Bourgeau’s specimens from Grand Canary in the BH. 
