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extremely rare, and where I only once met with it, in the 
summer of 1858 at the head of the Barranco de S. Andres, half- 
way between Laguna and Taganana, growing out of a perpen- 
dicular wall of rock by the roadside, without fl. or fr. But 
neither Masson nor any subsequent botanist, till quite recently, 
had ever found it wild in Mad. Nevertheless, in accordance 
with the line of reasoning followed with regard to Rliamnus 
latifolia Herit. supra p. 112, — viz. the little intercourse between 
the Canaries and Mad., the want of any other instance of such 
introduction thence in former years, the improbability of excep- 
tion in the case of a pi. neither useful nor ornamental, and 
lastly the positive tradition on the spot that the male pi. grow- 
ing in the Quinta de Prazer had been “ brought from the Serra,” 
— I had all along regarded this cult. ex. as the relic of a truly 
indigenous Mad. sp., which possibly might still reward the 
researches of some future botanist, but which, if really become 
totally extinct — a condition which the dioecious nature and 
probable original rarity of the pi. might well have accelerated, — 
had but anticipated by a few years, like Rkamnits latifolia 
Herit,, the probable speedy destiny of Visnea Mocanera L. til., 
Pittosporum coriaceum Ait., Prunus lusitanica L., Picconia excelsa 
(Ait.), Taxus baccata L., Juniperus Oxycedrus L., Goodyera 
macropliylla Lowe, Luzula Seuberti Lowe, Ralantium Cidcita 
(Sw.), Lycopodium complanatum L., and other like serviceable 
or excessively rare and local pi. The question is however now 
completely settled by the late happy discovery of a female pi. 
on its native rocks in the Curral, due to the unflagging energy 
of Sr. Moniz, — a discovery not less important in itself than in 
the confirmation it affords to the legitimacy of the claims of one 
or two other more or less apparently extinct sp. (e. g. Centaurea 
Massoniana Lowe, and Rliamnus latifolia Herit.) to a place in 
the Mad. Flora. 
3. Agrimonia L. 
1. A. Eupatoria L. Agrimony. Amoricos. 
Villose-hairy ; 1. interruptedly pinnate ; lfts. hairy or shaggy 
beneath, ovate-oblong coarsely serrate ; cal. -tube in fr. obconic, 
ribbed or furrowed to the base, outer spines of its rim or top 
spreading. — Brot. ii. 292 ; EB. t. 1335 ; Hook. FI. Sc. i. 147 ; 
Sm. E. FI. ii. 34G ; Buch 197. no. 375; DC. ii. 587 ; Koch 245 ; 
WB. ii. 14; Seub. FI. Azor. 48. no. 3G2; Bab. 91. — Herb. per. 
Mad. reg. 2, 3, ccc. — Chestnut-woods, ravines on grassy banks, 
