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nerves on a light ground. Pet. dull purple with mostly 2 small 
oblong darker spots at the base of each, oblong-oval obtuse 
entire, i in. long, in. broad; the claw very short and di- 
stinctly ciliate. Fertile fil. winged purple ; 5 sterile more 
broadly lanceolate petal- or chaff-like pale or colourless : all 
simple at the base and quite smooth. Carp, thickly erecto- 
strigose with long white tawny hairs up to the raised rim-like 
lower margin of the smooth groove below the large hollow scar 
or pit at top : both scar and groove thickly sprinkled with shining 
sessile glands. Beak an inch long, nearly smooth minutely and 
slightly adpresso-subpuberulous chiefly upwards. Seeds smooth 
shining. — In drying the pet. turn bluish-purple. Whole pi. 
scentless, occasionally in luxuriant young states viscid. Pet. 
very fugacious mostly falling before noon. The carp., in the 
raised rim-like lower margin of the groove below the scar form- 
ing a single oblique rib on each side at top, exactly resemble 
those of E. moschatum (L.) ; and they are also equally attenu- 
ated downwards at the base into a kind of stalk. 
Of 2 spec, in BH. on the same sheet, marked u Er odium mala - 
coides — Ger. malacoides L. Madeira, Fr. Masson,” the smaller 
may possibly be rightly so called, but the larger is certainly the 
next sp. E. chium L. V on Buch’s synonym is therefore doubtful, 
since he only enumerates one of the 2 species. 
5. E. chium (L.) Willd. 
Shining and moderately pubescent ; st. diffuse or procumbent, 
l. shining and often nearly smooth above, cordate obtuse toothed 
deeply and very obtusely pinnatilobate subtripartite, the upper 
tripartite ; stip. short broadly ovate membranous, ped. many-fl. ; 
pedic. in fr. declining or deflexed ; cal. in fr. close-pressed ; pet. 
unequal longer than the long awned sep. ; claw ciliate )Jil. hairy 
and ciliate downwards simple at the base ; carp, simple not ribbed 
at top and without any groove at all below the 2 small round 
pits or scars at the base of the beak which is 6 times the length 
of cal., long slender, finely adpresso-piibescent. — DC. i. 647; 
Spr. iii. 38. Ger. chium (L.) Cav. Biss. 4. 221. t. 92. f. 1. — 
Herb. aun. Mad. reg. 1, r ; PS. reg. 1, 2, cc (called Alfinete) ; 
SB. reg. 2, r. Madeira, Brazen-head outside the hummock at 
top, and roadside at the top of the descent into the Porto Novo 
ravine on the road from Funchal to Santa Cruz. In PS. com- 
mon in waste ground, especially under walls on the borders of 
cornfields, quite taking the place of the Madeiran E. malacoides 
(L.). In SB. near and at the top of the island. — Herbage of a 
bright light shining gr. smoother or at least appearing so than 
in E. malacoides (L.) with brighter-coloured more conspicuous 
pink fl. St. more erect, yet weak and diffuse or straggling, 1-3 ft. 
