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9. T. Cherleri L. 
Softly villose dull dark hoary gr. ; st. procumbent subcespitose ; 
lfts. obcordate or obovate minutely denticulate ; beads hemisphe- 
rical softly and densely villose solitary terminal sessile sheathed 
at the base with three large rounded bract-like stip. forming a sort 
of cup-like involucre ; cal.-tube and teeth silky-villose, the latter 
finely setaceous straight equal very villose, soft or flexible, as long 
as or a little longer than the cor., after fi. elongated otherwise 
unchanged. — Desf. ii. 197 ; Brot. ii. 104 ; Buch ! 197. no. 405 ; 
DC. ii. 196 ; Spr. iii. 216 ; FI. Gr. t. 745 ; Moris FI. Sard. i. 480. 
t. 61; WB. ii. 70; Koch 188. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. i. (upper 
part), r. In rocky or stony barren ground to the E. of Funchal 
a little beyond the chapel at the top of the hill on the Canico 
road ; and hills immediately above the Brazen Head, abundant. 
April, May. — A small rather inconspicuous pi. with subcespitose 
st. not above 6 or 8 in. long, all over densely clothed with whitish 
hairs. Lfts. rather small and foliage altogether scanty. Veins 
of lfts. straight and simple. Stip. broadly ovate pale or whitish 
membranous with dark nerves ; their short subulate tip herba- 
ceous gr. and more or less recurved. Heads large hoary densely 
villose soft in all stages, semiglobose and somewhat flattened 
at top, seated in and closely embraced by a curious sort of 
shallow cup (like that of Euphorbia segetalis L.) formed by the 
2 rounded enlarged pale or whitish green-edged gr. -nerved and 
gr. -tipped or mueronate stip. of the single fl. leaf and a 3rd 
internal br. or half-stip. without any 1. opposite the other two. 
Fl. white with a faint blush or pink tinge sometimes in the bud, 
about the length of the straight setaceous densely villose cal.- 
teeth. Cal.-tube pale obscurely 20- veined or striate not turgid, 
clothed like its teeth with long silky hairs ; throat open but 
densely villose. Bods 1 -seeded rather large turgid. Seed oval 
plump rufescent. 
T. splicerocephalon Desf. ii. 201. t. 209. f. 2 is probably, as re- 
marked bv Webb, a mere form of the present pi. with rather 
longer sepals than usual. 
10. T. STKLLATUM L. Starry Trefoil. 
Softly villose hoary; st. diffuse or decumbent loose and strag- 
gling ; lfts. obcordate wedge-shaped or subtriangular slightly 
denticulate at top ; 1 leads densely villose globose somewhat few- fid. 
lax stalked solitary terminal ; fl. pedicelled ; throat of cal. closed 
with hairs, teeth linear-lanceolate somewhat broad or leafy 3- 
nerved and reticulated at the base finely acuminate erect straight 
equal scarcely longer than the cor., after fl. long spreading stel- 
late soft or flexible densely villose. — Desf. ii. 199; Brot. ii. 107 ; 
Buch I 197. no. 107; EB. t. 1645; Sm. F„ FL iii. 804; FI Gr. 
t. 750; DC. ii. 197; Spr. iii. 213; WB. ! ii. 70; Koch 187; Bab. 
