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hope of helping others in Mad. to a more successful result I 
subjoin some other details of the sp. chiefly from Mr. Borrer’s 
excellent accoimt and Mr. Salter’s beautiful figure of it in 
EBS. 2935 : — 
Stolons none. Rosettes with long spreading bright gr. sili- 
cate 1. Whole pi. often reddish. St. obscurely and very bluntly 
angular chiefly towards the base, clothed with a minute ascend- 
ing curved pubescence. L. dull gr., smooth to the, naked eye 
and generally more or less shining, yet covered on both sides 
with microscopic curved ascending hairs. Leafstalks some- 
what winged. FI. small, at first w., then pale rose, their veins 
colourless. Lobes of stigma short, sometimes closed sometimes 
separate. 
( b ) Stigmas cohering into a club-shaped mass. St. angular with 
raised lines. 
1. Stolons none ; rosettes autumnal subsessile. 
3. E. TETRAG03TUM L. 
Smooth or with only the upper parts of the st., the fl.-buds 
and caps, minutely adpresso-pubescent ; st. erect from the base 
slender leafy 4-angular virgate simple erectly branched and 
minutely adpresso-puberulous upwards only; 1. mostly alto- 
gether smooth and shining, sometimes minutely puberulous at 
the edges and on the midrib, narrow-ligulate or strap-shaped 
rather than lanceolate, rounded but not broadest at the base, 
sharply and evenly serrulate throughout ; the lower and a 
few of the upper stalked, the intermediate quite sessile subde- 
current with a rib running from each leafy margin down the 
st. ; rac. erect corymbose; fl.-buds ovate-oblong; sep. lanceo- 
late acuminate ; cal. and caps, like the upper parts of st. ad- 
presso-puberulous, the latter long and slender ; seeds minutely 
granulate oval-oblong rounded at the base. — Brot. ii. 17 ; Hook. 
Scot. i. 117 ; Sm. E. FI. ii. 215 ; DC. iii. 43 (excl. var. (3) ; Koch 
2G7 ; Bab. 118; Gren. etGodr. i. 579. E. obscurum Holl ! (not 
Schreb.). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, r. Moist banks and rocks 
in ravines on seacliffs, &c. ; Rib. de S ta Luzia at the origin of 
the Levada de S. Roque above the Mill ; seacliffs a mile out of 
Funchal along the Canfyo road by the ladder descending to the 
beach, and on the road from Ribeira Brava to Ponta do Sol ; 
Curral dos Romeiros halfway down from the Mount to the 
bridge under high rocks on the left hand ; Rib. da Janella on 
rocks by the roadside ascending from the beach ; seacliffs S. Vi- 
cente on the road to Seixal. June, July. — Whole pi. nearly 
smooth and quite distinct in habit and appearance, with its 
simple stiff straight erect virgate st. branched at top only, long 
