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or subcylindric obtuse, sometimes ovate, close very soft and grey 
or whitish-villose stalked solitary axillary and terminal; cal. 
very hairy, teeth setaceous or subulate featliery-ciliate nerveless 
lunger than the cor., nearly equal, a little spreading but soft and 
otherwise unchanged after Jl. — Desf. ii. 198 ; Brot. ii. 106 ; EB. 
t. 944; H. FI. Sc. i. 218; Sm. E. FI. iii. 305, var. a; DC. ii. 
190, var. a ; Spr. iii. 213 ; WB. ! ii. 72 ; Koch 188, var. a . — 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, §. PS. reg. 2, rrr. Waste rocky ground 
and beds of ravines here and there sparingly, about Funchal, 
Paul do Mar, S. Vicente, &c. March-June. — Generally from 
3 to 6 in. high, mostly branched, often bushy, and always up- 
right in Mad. ; branches forked slender filiform, the main stem 
sometimes fiexuose. Boot small. Foliage grey, small and 
scanty ; 1. subsessile ; upper lfts. long and narrow about half an 
inch long and 1-2 lines wide, lower shorter and broader. Stip. 
long and narrow acuminate or taper-pointed nerved and mem- 
branous. Heads purplish-grey or hoary | inch long and 1 
in. broad always obtuse, occasionally shortly ovate. FI. very 
pale rose minute and inconspicuous concealed by the elegantly 
plumose or densely fringed reddish or purplish cal. -teeth which 
remain soft or flexible after fl. Throat of cal. simple but hairy. 
Seeds smooth u oval greenish-y., radicle not prominent ” (Bab.). 
— A small rather inconspicuous pi. of short duration and scant 
foliage ; but remarkable for its bushy upright habit and for the 
shape and peculiar softness and hoariness in all stages of the 
heads or spikes, from whence it has its English name. 
** Fl. in short ovate oval or globose heads or umbels. 
( Phleastrum and Eutriphyllum Ser. in DC.) 
3. T. ligusticum Balb. 
Hairy-pubescent dull smoky-gr. ; st. erect, branches elongate 
diffuse procumbent or ascending ; lfts. obovate retuse and sub- 
denticulate at top ; heads oblong or ovate-oblong hairy stalked 
sometimes geminate ; cal. -tube 10 -ribbed hairy, teeth setaceous 
or awn-like subidate much longer than the cor. equal pilose soft 
and unchanged after Jl. — DC. ii. 191 ; WB. ! ii. 72 ; Seub. Fl. 
Azor. 49. no. 371. T. arrectisetum Brot. Phyt. Lusit. i. 152. 
t. 63. f. 1. “ T. aristatum Link” (DC. and WB.). — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 3 (1 and 2 occasionally), £. GD. reg. 2, cc. Dry- 
rocky banks and mountain pastures in the Serra d’Agoa, the 
Babayal, Bib. de S ta Luzia, &c. ; Curral das Freiras (E. side) 
(Dr. L emann) ; up the Caminho do Meio near Funchal ; at the 
Mount (S r Moniz) ; sea-cliffs ! S. Vicente. GD. on tops of all 
the peaks and high rocky ridges abundant. June, July. — A 
small inconspicuous pi. of short duration, growing singly or 
detached here and there, softly hairy of a dull rather dark gr. 
Main st. erect, branches few or distant spreading from 2 or 3 10 
