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25 . LEGUINIINOSiE. 
white cottony or thickly downy close compact heads, with the 
2 upper teeth of the inflated cal. after fl. not porrected awn-like 
or conspicuous, and in the pale or quite white fl. It is also a 
much more delicate and smaller pi. The heads are more densely 
or closely velvety than in T. fragiferum L. 
Bourgeau's Canarian spec, in BII. from Gomera, marked 
u T. tomentosum L. Bourg. PL Can. no. 168, Ins. Gomera,” are 
certainly T. resupinatum L. But I gathered in Feb. 1858 the 
true T. tomentosum L. in Gomera myself; and I also met with it 
in Hierro, Lanzarote, Fuerte ventura and Gr. Canaria. 
IV. Trifoliastrum Ser. in DC. ; throat of cal. in fr. not in- 
flated or closed, simple and naked within. — Herbage 
smooth. Fl. crowded sessile erect bractleted, bractlets 
distinct not forming an involucre. 
15. T. GLOMERATUM L. 
Wholly smooth bright full gr. ; st. procumbent or ascending ; 
lfts. obovate or obcordate sharply and finely toothed ; heads 
globose sessile axillary and terminal, distinct and usually remote 
sometimes geminate, quite smooth in all stages; fl. dense 
crowded erect nearly or quite sessile ; cal. smooth 10-ribbed 
unchanged in fr., teeth nearly equal cordate-ovate short very 
acute or sharply setaceo-acuminate, leaf-like 3-nerved and re- 
ticulated at the base, spreading or rejlexed ; cor. conspicuous longer 
than cal., standard much longer than the wings striate. — 
Desf. ii. 200 ; Brot. ii. 108 ; EB. t. 1063 ; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 307 ; 
Buch ! 197. no. 408 ; I)C. ii. 198; Spr. iii. 209 ; WB. ! ii. 74; 
Seub. Fl. Azor. 49. no. 375; Koch 191; Bab. 78. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, c. PS. reg. 4, 4. Dry rocky waste ground 
everywhere to the E. and W. of Funchal, at Camacha, on the 
Caminho central under Pico Grande, &c. In PS. on summits 
of P. do Facho, do Castello, d’ Anna Ferreira, &c. Febr.-June. 
— Whole pi. quite smooth of a bright full lively gr. St. slender 
filiform stiff and wiry 2-12 in. long straight flexuose at the 
divisions. Foliage rather scanty, the 1. remote not crowded ; 
the upper opposite. Efts, unspotted not large, toothed nearly 
all round, with the teeth very sharp and fine formed by the 
shortly excurrent nerves. Slip, entire ovate-acuminate pro- 
duced into a long point membranous nerved. Heads ol fl. 
densely hemispherical or globose, mostly quite sessile distinct 
solitary, occasionally geminate, rarely shortly stalked. Cal. 
smooth in all stages, the teeth auricled or broad and dilated at 
the base full gr. and leaf-like finely awn-pointed, a little stiff 
or firm but scarcely rigid in fr. Cor. pale rose or pink perma- 
nent twice the length of the cal. -tube, standing out all round 
