PEDR0SIA. 
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The two sp. above mentioned as confounded by Webb with 
L. glaucus Ait. may be thus distinguished : 
1. Pedrosiatenella; suffrutescens tenuiuscula hispido-pubescens pro- 
strato-dumosa, ramulis erectiusculis tenuibus patenti- vel re- 
fiexo-velutinis ; fol. petiolulatis sessilibusque ; foliolis stipulis- 
que conformibus obovatis obtusis subciliatis raro acutiusculis ; 
ped. filiformibus breviusculis reflexo-hispidulis 1-5-fl. ; cal. liis- 
pidiuscidis ; leg. rectis cylindricis sequalibus longiusculis nigris 
10-30-spermis. — Lotus glaucus WE. ii. 84 quoad “ Hab. In 
rupibus maritimis Teneriffae occidentalis copiosa.” Lotus glau- 
cus Bourg. ! PI. Can. in itin. 2 do (1855) no. 1323 in EH.' et HH. 
— Hab. copiose in maritimis plagas occidentalis Tenerifae ab 
Orotava usque ad Garachicum.— A very distinct and pretty sp. 
at once known by its peculiar bristly or hispidulous pubescence 
spreading or reflexed on the branches and fringing the lfts. : it 
abounds on the sea-cliff road between Realejo and 8. Juan de la 
Rambla, and again at the east end of Garachico. Two states or 
var. may be distinguished: a. virescens , hispida ; and /3. cinerea , 
sericea. 
2. Pedrosia leptophylla ; fruticulosa tenuis arete adpresso-pubescens 
intricato-dumosa, ramulis divaricatis intricatis erectiusculis 
tenerrimis filiformibus adpresse puberuhs ; fol. plerisque sessi- 
libus quibusdam subpetiolulatis ; foliolis stipulisque subdif- 
formibus minutis tenuibus adpresse pubescentibus acutiusculis, 
his obovatis, illis lineari- v. elongato-spathulatis deorsum atte- 
nuatis ; ped. filiformibus tenerrimis adpresse puberulis brevius- 
culis 1-2- (raro 3-) floris ; cal. nudiuscuhs s. glabriusculis ; leg. 
curtis aqualibus cylindricis torulosis 8-15-spermis. — Lotus 
glaucus WE. ii. 84 quoad icon. t. 61 ; ejusd. quoad ex. 2 in 
HH. “ Lotus glaucus Hort. Kew., Ad littora ins. Canariensium, 
P. B. Webb Esq.,” inscripta. (N.B. L. sessilifolius Webb l. c. 
t. 60 has been also more probably drawn from a spec, of P. lepto- 
phylla than from one of the true P. sessili folia (DC.), for which 
it was intended : and in his description the words “ foliis .... 
aut brevissime pedicellatis ” and “ foliolis aut ovato-linea- 
ribus ” again show that he confounded P. leptophylla with P. 
sessilifolia (DC.).) Hab. passim in collibus marit. apricis juxta 
civit. Las Palmas Ins. Canariai Magna, vulg. 
3. P. FLORIDA Lowe. 
Suffrutescent pale asliy-grcy or whitish ; adpressedly and 
densely silky-grey or hoary almost silvery-silky- villose ; st. 
slender cespitose subprostrate or procumbent; 1. quite sessile; 
lfts. and stip. alike, crowded small elliptic lanceolate or obovate- 
lanceolate acute quite sessile scarcely fleshy ; ped. short, 3-o-fld. ; 
pods straight evenly cylindric moderately long and thickish smooth 
2-4 times as long as the cal. and 12-20-seeded. — Hook. J. Bot. 
viii. 294. — subper. PS. reg. 1, r. Zimbral d’Area at the 
