BISEEJEtTTLA. 
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2. S. VERMICULATA L. ! 
Hirtosely pubescent or subvillose ; ped. 1-2-fld. ; cal. -teeth 
oyate-acuminate or lanceolate longer than the tube; pods smooth 
closely curled thick unarmed, the 10 outer ribs warted with 
stalked clubshaped crowded close-set tubercles. — Brot. ii. 79 ; 
DC. ii. 308 ; WB. ii. 116. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, e. Edge of 
the sea-cliff halfway between Funchal and the Brazen Head 
(Dr. Lernann) ; Caniyo (S. Moniz) ; to the W. of Funchal at top 
of some rocks halfway between the little Crater and the E. end 
of the Praia Formosa ; between Machico and Cani^al abun- 
dantly. April, May. — Larger coarser and ranker than the usual 
states of S. sulcata L., and always subvillose or softly hairy- 
pubescent, scarcely shining. St. 1-2 ft. long. L. as in S. 
sulcata L., but light apple-gr. and slightly hoary. FI. much 
larger and mostly solitary rarely 2 together, or. not y. Cal.- 
teeth longer and narrower than in S. sulcata. Pods very curi- 
ous, large or thick, shorter and of fewer volutions, but these 
more closely rolled together and \ in. in diam. or as thick as a 
large goose-quill, contracted between the seeds, of a singular 
pale whitish spongy appearance, and most curiously covered 
with close-set stalked wartlike or scale-like tubercles, each re- 
sembling in miniature a conical nail-head or the pileus of a 
Leotia or Helvella. 
Tribe VII. Astragalece. 
19. Biserrula L. 
1. B. Pelecentus L. 
The only known species. — Brot. ii. 170 ; Novit. 23 or 545 ; 
WB. ii. 96. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r ; PS. reg. 2, 3, 4, c ; 
ND. r; SD. reg. 2, r. March- June. — St. prostrate or pro- 
cumbent from 6-18 in. long, lying usually quite close to the 
ground and often thickly matted, sparingly branched, elongate 
slender leafy. Whole pi. pale dull g r. almost hoary, with the 
habit somewhat of an Ervum. Lfts. small, in many (about 10 ) 
distinct or subremote pairs, widely notched as if they had been 
doubled together and their ends cut off obliquely rather than 
obcordate, the lobes being acute not roimded ; the midrib form- 
ing a minute point or mucro in the middle of the notch. FI. 
small inconspicuous very pale greyish-b. or almost white, 2-4 
together in a short-stalked umbellate rac. Cal. -teeth long su- 
bulate setaceous. Pods drab-brown pendulous large broad flat 
and very singular from their regularly large-toothed edges or 
rather sharply-keeled backs, being flattened or compressed in a 
contrary direction to that of most leguminous pi. i. e. from 
suture to suture ; they are £-2 in. long and £ in. broad, and 
about 14-seeded, the seeds in 2 rows of about 7 each. Var. : 
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