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and very strongly 3- or 5-ribbed at the base, their long setaceous 
points fringed or clothed with long distinct spreading inter- 
lacing hairs: throat open but thickly fulvous-hairy. Pods 
always 1-seeded. Seed roundish-oval with the radicle a little 
protuberant on one side, yellowish-brown or tawny-y. 
5. T. MARITIMUM Huds. 
Whole pi. somewhat hairy dark full gr. ; st. branched through- 
out diffuse or procumbent ; lfts. oblong-obovate nearby or quite 
entire ; uppermost l. opposite in pairs ; heads naked slightly 
pubescent half-ovate shortly -stalked terminal, harsh rigid and 
spinescent after jl. ; cal.-tube 10-ribbed obconic, swollen tumid 
and subpubescent upwards, teeth more hairy shortly ciliate un- 
equal shorter than the cor. erect subulate, after fl. spreading 
substellate broad leajlike triangular acute spinescent, the lowest 
one longest 3- nerved dejlexed, the rest 1-nerved. — EB. t. 220 ; 
Sm. E. Fl. iii. 303 ; DC. ii. 192 ; Koch 187. T. irregulare 
il Pourr.,” Spr. iii. 215. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. PS. reg. 
3, r. About the rocks a little above the “ Crater” between the 
Gorgulho and E. end of the Praia, sparingly and in one spot 
only ; first found in 1837 by Dr. Lemann. In PS. plentifully 
on steep grassy slopes near the top of Pico do Facho on the E. 
side, from \ to £ a mile below the rocky summit ; also at the 
Fonte das Pombas on the N. coast near the Ninho do Guincho. 
April, May. — Whole pi. more or less but not copiously hairy- 
pubescent, rather dark but bright full gr. with a somewhat rank 
coarse succulent habit when luxuriant. St. diffusely spreading 
nearly erect 6-12 in. long. Lfts. narrow and oblong, often an 
inch long, hairy on both sides, scarcely toothed ; the lower 
broader and short, on slender stalks. L. alternate ; but a little 
below the head there is always a pair of opposite more shortly 
stalked 1, characteristic of the sp., though obtaining also in T. 
squarrosum L. St. and stip. mostly hairy throughout. Stip. 
long and narrow membranous and nerved at the base, produced 
into long gr. herbaceous points. Heads rather large in fruit, 
naked or inconspicuously pubescent. Cor. pale-pink or rose, 
longer than the cal. -teeth, mostly deciduous. Tube of cal. pale, 
only slightly pubescent upwards, 10-striate but not quite to the 
top, the throat closed by 2 opposite lateral lip-like protuber- 
ances ; teeth short more copiously though still shortly ciliate- 
pubescent, after fl. much enlarged leafy at their base, dark gr. 
contrasting with the pale tube and throat, stellate somewhat 
like the cal. of Lotus major Sm. ; the whole resembling the head 
of a Dipsacus in miniature. 
Very distinct from any other Mad. sp. bv its dark full gr. 
herbage, succulent often rank coarse habit, large oblong lfts., 
opposite uppermost 1., and foliaceo-stellate cal. It comes un- 
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