ILLECEBROI. 
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hirsute, in having no distinct terminal awn or bristle to the 
sep., in] the naked bristly 1., and echinate-bristly £r. ; from H. 
ciliata Bab. in the narrower longer lanceolate 1., horizontally 
spreading pubescence of the st., confluent spicate clusters of fl. 
and fr., and echinate-bristly fr. ; from II. incana L. in the ses- 
sile fr., &c. ; and from all the preceding in the decidedly ann. 
not per. woody root and rootstock. 
This is also a Can. sp. The late Dr. C. Lemann gathered it 
in Lanzarote in 1837, and I found it myself in Gr. Canaria and 
in Lanzarote in 1858, 1859. 
2. Illecebrum L. 
1. I. VERTICILLATUM L. 
The only sp. — EB. 895 ; Brot. i. 302 ; Sm. E. Fl. i. 335 ; 
Buch 192. no. 148; DC. iii. 370: Seub. Fl. Azor. 45. no. 329; 
Koch 280; Bab. 123. — Herb. ann. or in swamps bien. or per. 
Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc. Moimtain pastures especially in moist 
or swampy places, yet also in dry, and even in clefts or on 
ledges occasionally of rocks, general. W. bank of the Rib. de 
Joao Gomes above the Campo do Barco at Funchal; very abun- 
dant in the turf of dry mountain pastures about the Primeira 
Vista do Curral above the Jardim da Serra; in vast profusion 
and luxuriance in the swamps to the N.W. of the church at 
S. Antonio da Serra, &c. &c. Apr.-July. — Root fibrous pro- 
perly perennial. St. cespitose gTegarious slender filiform either 
(as in dry places) simple or nearly so, 2 or 3 in. long, more or 
less erect or ascending, or in wet or swampy ground much 
branched and creeping prostrate or trailing and procumbent, 
0-12 in. long, forming dense cespitose masses, or sometimes a 
thick moss-like bed. — Whole pi. smooth slender delicate and 
usually of short duration. Foliage bright gr. L. opposite small 
obovate spathulate or lanceolate obtuse or acute inconspicuous. 
Fl. sessile crowded in axillary confluent tufts or whorls, minute 
but conspicuous from their snow-white more or less tinged with 
pink or crimson shining china-like cal. which is alike elegant 
and curious in aspect as in structure. Pet. 5 very short narrow 
lanceolate membranous scales concealed by the wax-like white 
or crimson cal., each ending in a subulate point, not longer 
than the ov. or stam., and alternate with the curious hooded 
awned sep. Perfect or antheriferous stam. only 2, opposite the 
sep. not longer than the ov. Stigma decidedly single (possibly 
2 combined into one) nearly sessile forming a simple truncate 
knob at the top of the ovate acute smooth ov. 
It is remarkable that this pi., of such universal diffusion in 
