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into the ravine, and in the Serra beyond, towards S. Antonio. 
May, June. 
tenuis ; smaller with more slender filiform procumbent st. 
and smaller lfts. — Lotus parviflorus Deless. Ic. i. t. 30. — Chiefly 
below 2000 ft. c. in dry rocky waste ground, but also in dry 
mountain pastures; about Funchal on the top of the rocks E. 
of the Quinta do Valle or W. cliff of the Rib. de Joao Gomes, 
&c. March-May. 
A small hoar}* pi. of delicate habit, especially in /3, and rather 
short duration, with soft flaccid quickly withering foliage. Root 
small fibrous. St. pale yellowish or straw-colour (in a. browner) 
much branched, mostly prostrate at first, their ends ascending, 
3-6 in. long, very slender and filiform; in a. more robust and 
upright. Whole pi. clothed with long soft white hairs, which 
in drying- often turn brown or fulvous. Lfts. and stip. as usual 
entire. Lfts. bright gr. but hoary with their long hairs ; in /3, 
small and delicate. Stip. inequilaterally ovate large and leaflike. 
FI. in dense villose umbels small plain y. inclining to lemon, 
not at all streaked or marked with red, turning bluish-gr. or 
greenish-black in drying. Cal. densely hairy, sep. very long 
and slender. Style distinctly capitate. Fed. about an inch 
long, exceeding the 1., densely pilose especially in a, slender 
filiform ; immediately after fl. and in fr. bent down strongly in 
an arch ; with mostly a single leafy shortly stalked linear-lan- 
ceolate br. or 1ft. close below the fl. Pods smooth even very 
short and turgid acute brown ; the valves not twisting spirally 
after bursting as they do in all the other Mad. sp. Seeds pale 
y. minute orbicular compressed. 
The foregoing description is taken from pi. of /3, which is in 
Mad. by far the more ordinary form, and of which indeed a. is 
scarcely more than a luxuriant state, due to a moister soil or 
atmosphere. 
2. L. hispidus Desf. 
Pilose ; st. prostrate much branched intricate subcespitose slender 
elongated subfiexuose pale gr. or straw-colour ; lfts. lanceolate 
or obovate-cuneate ; stip. inequilaterally ovate half-cordate 
acute ; umbels %-Jl. on rather long erect peu. ; cal. -teeth straight 
linear-subulate shorter than the cor., twice the length of the 
tube ; pods cylindric subtorulose short turgid thickisli about twice 
as long as the sep. or cal. and 5 or 6 times as long as broad, 8- 
12-seeded . — “ 1 )esf. Cat. Ilort. Par. 11)0;” “ Loisel. Fl. Gall. 400. 
t. 16;” DC. ii. 212; Seub. I'd. A/.or. 40. no. 379; EBS. t. 2823; 
Bab. 80. L. pilosissimus ( Poir. ) DC. ii. 212 ? L. divaricatus Sol. ! 
in BII. ; Buch ! 108. no. 413; Novit. 546, 7. L. angustissimus ft. 
Ilook. Brit. Fl. (ed. 5) i. 83. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2,3, ccc. 
