TEIFOLIUM. 
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76. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, §. Dry sunny bills to the E. of 
Funchal, as between the Can^o and Camacha roads about a 
mile out ; at the fossil-bed and hills near the Piedade and about 
the whole of P ta S. LourenQo, general. March-May. — Greyish, 
clothed in all parts with copious long soft white hairs. St. 4- 
6 in. long weak and loosely spreading. Foliage scanty ; lfts. not 
large on long leafstalks. Stip. large broadly ovate or oval short 
apiculate and slightly toothed membranous with gr. nerves 
hairy. Heads large on rather long naked stalks lgosely de- 
clining with less crowded somewhat fewer fl. which are more 
distinctly stalked than usual. Cor. pale rose (cream-coloured, 
Bab.) small yet as long as or very little shorter than the long 
slender cal.-teeth. Cal.-tube 10-ribbed villose ; the teeth after 
fl. much and remarkably enlarged conspicuous and elegant star- 
like with the long rays fringed copiously with long white hairs, 
its throat or centre of a rich dark reddish-purple, in the midst 
of which is a prominent compressed tuft of densely interwoven 
white woolly hairs completely closing the mouth of the tube. 
This white tuft or eye relieved by the dark purple or red ground 
gives a very peculiar flower-like appearance to the head in fr. 
Pods 1-seeded. Seed u elongate-ovate reddish chestnut” (Webb). 
II. Trichocephalum Koch ; throat of cal. not inflated, open 
simple naked and not hairy within. — Herbage hairy. 
Fl. without bractlets ; fertile few (1-5), sterile or abor- 
tive upper forming a terminal deflexed coma. Pod 1- 
seeded splitting the distended membranous cal.-tube. 
11. T. SUBTEUUANEUM L. 
Softly hairy-pubescent pale bright gr. ; st. prostrate or pro- 
cumbent; lfts. obcordate nearly entire; heads few (2-5)-fl. lax 
stalked axillary lateral, after fl. deflexed and rooting ; fl. stalked 
slender elongate deflexed after fl., the lower fertile with long 
filiform hairy nearly equal cal.-teeth shorter than the cor., the 
tube smooth, inflated and splitting longitudinally in fr. ; the 
upper jl. abortive, presently becoming rigid 5 - pointed stellate crown- 
ing the heads with a deflexed coma, and fixing or, burying them in 
the soil. — Desf. ii. 196; Brot. ii. 103 ; EB. t. 1048; Sin. E. Fl. iii. 
300 ; DC. ii. 202 ; Spr. iii. 218 ; WB. ! ii. 76 ; Hook. Fl. Br. (ed. 5) 
i. 79 ; Koch 189 ; Bab. 77. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, i. Chest- 
nut woods and mountain pastures at and above the Mount; Ca- 
macha about the church and on the Achada, &c. ; Machico, reg. 
1, 2, abundant. March-June. — Whole pi. clothed with soft 
white close not very long hairs ; st. numerous branched 3-12 in. 
long, running amongst grass close to the ground, and fixing them- 
selves in it by means of the deflexed axillary ped. Lf. -stalks 
rather long. Lfts. large bright but rather pale gr. with a pale 
transverse irregular band below the middle, mostly entire or 
