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25. legumixos^;. 
The somewhat stout robust leafy habit, large leafy stem- 
clasping subserrulate stip., short broadly obovate or oval evenly 
and closely many-serrate subcoriaceous lfts., large leafy cam- 
panulate calyxes much dilated after flowering with broader 
leafy sep. often twice the length of the ripe pod., and especially 
the larger more strongly granulated streaked or mottled black 
and rufous-tawny seeds distinguish amply the present pi. from 
the true O. serrata Forsk. !, Webb !, &c., wdiick I have gathered 
in the Canaries, and -which is of an altogether more delicate 
habit, especially in st. and foliage, with smaller thin and mem- 
branous or flaccid narrow linear-oblong remotely deeply coarsely 
and irregularly toothed or cut lfts., 3 or 4 times as long as 
broad, with not more than 5 or 6 teeth, instead of 9 or 10, on 
each side the midrib, small inconspicuous entire stip., smaller 
scarcely leafy or dilated calyxes, with sep. scarcely longer than 
the pod, and plain tawny-y. much more finely granulated glo- 
bose seeds little more than half the size of those of O. micrantha . 
The latter pi. occurs at Gibraltar and on the island at Mogadore 
(var. /3.) ; but I never met -with it in the Canaries, where it is 
replaced by the true O. serrata Forsk. 
O. parviflora Brot. is a perfectly distinct y.-fl. sp. 
O. diffusa Ten. differs in too many points to be safely iden- 
tified with the present pi. Moris (FI. Sard.) quotes it however 
along with O. Dehnhardtn Ten. under O. serrata Forsk., adding 
also O. litoralis Spr. Syst. (Curse Post.) iv. 2. 346. 
Webb seems only to have known the true O. serrata Forsk. ; 
and he also appends to it as syn. both O. Dehnhardtii and 
diffusa Ten., and O. litoralis Spr. 
3. 0. mitissima L. Trevo branco. 
Herbaceous annual ; st. erect pale or w r hitisli more or less 
hairy or woolly ; 1. ternate, lfts. oval obovate or oblong sharply 
serrate ; stip. half-oval entire ; fl. in hard close terminal ovate 
or ellipsoidal elongated leafy heads or spikes variegated gr. and 
w. by the prominent acuminate or cuspidate fringed sen. and 
enlarged hardened scariose whitish imbricated br. or 1-3-leaved 
stip. of the upper 1. closely embracing and concealing the cal.- 
tube. — Brot. ii. 97; DC. it 168; Spr. iii. 179; WB. ! ii. 29.— 
Herb. nnn. Mad. reg. 1, PS. reg. 2, 3, 4, ccc. NT). 4; GD. 
ecc; SI). 0. Dry barren hillsides and borders of cornfields to 
the E. of Funchal along the Canico road about S. Goi^alo, the 
Neves, Canico, Machico, See. ; in PS. and the GD. everywhere. 
April- June. — A much larger and stouter pi. than either of the 
