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almost everywhere ; Rib. de Santa Luzia, dos Cayados, da Me- 
tade, Rib. Frio, Curral das Romeiras, das Freiras, Ponta de 
Pargo, &c., Santa Anna., &c. April-July. — Shr. 3-4 ft. high 
with stiff but somewhat weak and curved straggling or spread- 
ing naked pale yellowish or reddish branches proliferous and 
leafy only towards their ends ; the quite young shoots clothed 
with a short white cottony or mealy down. L. thickly crowded 
upwards, somewhat broadly elliptic-lanceolate mostly sessile, 
the lower sometimes shortly stalked, bright y.-gr. shining as if 
varnished, 1-1^ in. long, in. broad. L. br. and sep. thickly 
fringed or serrulate with prominent black glands. FI. -buds 
and pet. reddish outside varnished-shining. Sep. slightly un- 
equal alternately narrower and more lanceolate. FI. not large 
rather pale dull y. Pet. persistent Jiat scarcely twice the length 
of sep. sprinkled especially along their edges with a few black 
glands or dots. Styles as long as stam. — Bourgeau’s specimen 
under this name in the BH. (PI. Exs. Can. no. 246) is by some 
mischance or accident merely II. perforatum L. 
*** Herbaceous. Sep. nearly equal. Pet. persistent. Styles 3. 
4. H. PERFOLIATUM L. 
Smooth ; st. ascending erect compressed and faintly 2-edged ; 
1. ovate or ovate-oblong obtuse subcordate half-amplexicaul 
thickly pellucid-dotted and more or less sprinkled with a 
few black glands either all over or towards or at the edge, 
quite smooth and slightly glaucous beneath ; cyme close many- 
flowered; sep. and br. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acute or 
acuminate copiously dotted with sessile black glands and 
fringed or ciliate-serrulate with either short simple cilia or 
stalked black glands; pet. and anth. copiously dotted with 
black glands. — Linn. ! Herb. ; Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) ii. 510 ; 
Willd. iii. 1462. H. ciliatum Lam. Enc. iv. 170, 171 ; DC. i. 
552 ; Presl 193. H. dentatum Lois. FI. Gall. 499, (ed. 2) ii. 
169. t. 17 ; DC. 1. c. H. montanum Buck ! 196. no. 329 (not 
Linn.). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2; rrr. Curral das Romeiras, 
bank on the left side of the road descending from the Mount 
Church a little before coming to the first bridge at the bottom. 
In Chestnut woods at S. Vicente on the road to the Paul. 
May, June. — Very slightly and fugaciously glaucous. St. 
several stoutish often as thick as a small quill simple very stiff 
suffrutescent at the base 1-2 ft. high, compressed and with a 
prominent line or edge on each side alternately between the 
internodes which become gradually longer upwards. L. entire 
(not toothed as in Lois. t. 17) subcoriaceous, the lower smaller 
narrower and closer together, the upper larger broader and more 
remote, £-1^- in. long, \ in. broad, the uppermost shortest 
and broadest, beneath slightly glaucous and with the nerves or 
