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25. LEGU1IIX0SJE. 
ripe pale drab-brown with a paler edge or border, becoming 
altogether darker or blackish when old; almost always quite 
smooth in Mad., but occasionally a little puberulous or ciliate 
at the edge, mostly flat or disk-like with the turns closely super- 
incumbent, but sometimes on the same pi. the volutions are 
loosely coiled and more or less drawn out like a corkscrew, con- 
stituting apparently 31. marginata Willd. or 31. orbicularis y. 
WB. 1. c. ; the edges very thin sharp and entire, often turned 
a little either up or down, plain or flat and even in the disk- 
like pods, and slightly waved or plaited in those that are 
drawn out. Seeds many pale yellowish or rufous compressed 
somewhat triangular or shortly pear-shaped. 
** Pods (normally) armed, the edge or margin spinose. 
3. M. lappacea Desr. in Lam. 
Nearly or quite smooth succulent stout leafy ; stip. large deeply 
laciniate and fringed with long setaceous teeth ; lfts. large 
obovate-wedge-shaped, the lower obcordate, all unevenly or ir- 
regularly toothed ; ped. 2-5-fl., 1-3 or 4 only fertile, not awned ; 
keel shorter than wings; pods rather large agglomerate firm 
quite smooth of 4-5 arcuately ribbed or veined turns or volu- 
tions thickly spinose at the edge, spines crowded hooked at the 
tip; seeds tawny-y. oblong scarcely reniform. — 31. lappacea 
Lam., nigra Willd., Terebellum Willd., Ilistrix Ten., pentacycla 
DC., denticulata , WB. ! (not Willd.). 
a. macracantha Lowe ; pods subglobose large mostly in threes 
forming blackish bur-like globular heads with numerous thick- 
set long slender spines equal to or exceeding in length the 
breadth of the pod and mostly radiant or standing out straight 
horizontally rarely subdivergent. — 31. lappacea Desrouss. in Lam. 
Diet. iii. 637, 638. 31. ciliaris Brot. ii. 114 (not Linn.). M. nia- 
ricata Buch ! 198. no. 419 (nec alior.). 31 nigra (W.) DC. ii. 
178. 31. pentacycla DC. and M. Ilistrix (Ten.) I)C. ii. 177. 
31. pentacycla Seub. FI. Azor. 48. no. 368. 31. denticulata (3. ma- 
cracantha WB. ! ii. 64 (not 31. denticulata Willd.). — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, and PS. reg. 2, 3, cc ; GD. reg. 2, £; SD. rr. Waste 
ground amongst vineyards and by roadsides ; about Funchal espe- 
cially to the K. along the Cani^o road, See . ; in PS., Serra de Fora, 
Serra de Dentro, back of Pico de Juliana, grassy slopes nearly at 
the top of P. do Castello, Sc c. Jan.-June. — Distinguished by its 
large densely glomerate subglobose hedgehog- or bur-like masses 
of fr. composed almost uniformly of 3 pods, and its somewhat 
coarse rank succulent leafy habit. Whole pi. robust dark full 
grass-gr. copiously leafy nearly or quite smooth in all its parts 
except the cal. with the stalks and midribs of the 1. beneath 
whilst young, which are slightly pubescent towards the ends of 
the shoots. St. long trailing or prostrate spreading 1-2 ft. in all 
