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veins quite smooth, not minutely furry or mealy-puberulous as 
in true H. montanum L. ; the upper 1. especially more or less 
black-dotted towards the edges, the dots rather large, some- 
times confined to a single row at the edge, always sessile in 
Madeira, but in Sicilian spec, in HH. and in Cretan in BH. 
occasionally stalked and fringing the 1. FI. middle-sized sub- 
sessile in a close crowded not large forked cyme. Fringe of 
sep. much shorter than half their breadth. Styles not exceed- 
ing the stamens. 
5. H. lixarifolium Vahl. 
Smooth ; st. ascending stiffly erect round below, compressed 
and faintly 2-edged upwards, simple straight slender wiry suf- 
frutescent at the base ; 1. linear-oblong very obtuse or retuse 
with revolute margins erect lialf-amplexicaul without pellucid 
dots but with a marginal row of black glands and a few also 
sprinkled over the surface at the tip beneath ; cyme terminal 
rather lax; fl. and fr. rather large; sep. lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate subequal subobtuse in the bud, subacute afterwards, 
thickly dotted and slightly fringed or serrulate with black 
glands; pet. edged and sprinkled with the same, anth. more 
sparingly so ; styles longer than stam. twice as long as ovary. — 
H. Linarifolium Vahl Symb. Bot. i. 65; Lam. Enc. iv. i80; 
Brot. ii. 321. II. linearifolium Willd. iii. 1470; DC. i. 552; 
Loisel. Fl. Gall. (ed. 2) ii. 168. II linaru folium EBS. t. 2851 ; 
Bab. 60. II. angustifolium Buch ! 196. no. 328 ; Lowe ! Priinit. 
35 (not Lam.). H. nubigenum Lowe ! Hook. J. of Bot. i. 43 ; 
Novit. ! 548, App. xii. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3 (upper part) ; A. 
Whole surface of the Paul da Serra ; summit of Pico Grande 
and about the Boca das Torrinhas and adjacent peaks at the 
top of the Lombo Grande ; very abundant, but scarcely found 
eastward of the Currai das Freiras or Pico Ruivo and the Tor- 
rinhas. July, Aug. — St. 6-18 in. high several or numerous, at first 
ascending, then very erect and straight. L. small narrow i— 1 
in. long, 1-2’ lines broad stiff or thickish and coriaceous, the 
upper very rarely in luxuriant large pi. with here and there one 
or two pellucid dots. Fl. conspicuous f or f in. diam. rather 
pale bright y. a little inclining to buff, reddish outside especially 
in bud. Sep. nearly or quite equal. Styles 3 divergent much 
longer than the ov., shorter than the caps. Seeds oblong ele- 
gantly crenate-striate lengthways. — In Jersey specimens (St. 
Catherine’s Bay, Aug. 1861, Stevens) in I Hi., the st. though 
round below are obscurely 2-edged upwards. In a large luxu- 
riant Asturian spec, from Durieu also in IIII., the st. is round 
nearly throughout, as I have also occasionally found it in robust 
luxuriant pi. up the Lombo Grande in Madeira. Hence all dif- 
ficulty regarding the identity of Vahl’s pi. on the ground of his 
describing the st. as “ teres,” may be considered at an end. 
