322 
39. CRASSULACEJE. 
t. 116; Sm. E. FI. i. 242 ; DC. iii. 381 ; ejusd. PL Gr. t. 73 ; 
WB. i. 175; Ivocli 282; Seub. FI. Azor. 42. no. 302; Bab. 125. 
— Herb. ann. Mad. rep:. 1, 3, r. About Funchal on the walls 
and in the bed of the Rib. de S ta Luzia between the 2nd and 3rd 
bridges from the sea near the Bom Jezus; and also near the top of 
the Pico da Silva (about 3500 ft.), Sr. J. M. Moniz. Febr.-Julv. 
— An extremely minute insignificant pi., somewhat resembling* 
Paronychia echinata ( L.) in miniature, and covering -walls or 
barren sunny spots with its often yellowish or reddish moss- 
like herbage. Whole pi. smooth. St. round slender filiform 
1-2 in. long, prostrate and often rooting near the base. L. very 
small fleshy elliptic-oblong lanceolate or even linear mostly 
aristato-acuminate, the lower only obtuse, at first in pairs or 
opposite and connate at the base, afterwards thickly fascicled 
at the joints of the main branches, which thus become crowdedlv 
whorled and spicate towards their ends. FI. very small axillary 
all up the st. on the little short abortive side shoots which form 
the axillary fascicles of 1. and so appearing crowded or agglo- 
merate, sessile or shortly stalked trimerous ; sep. aristate-acu- 
minate gr. or reddish ; pet. very minute narrow acute w. or 
flesh-colour. 
I feel by no means certain that on closer study and examina- 
tion on the spot (I describe only from dried spec.) this may not 
prove distinct from the sp. to which I have referred it. In fo- 
liage it agrees better with Buttiarda {Till cm L.) aquatiea of DC. 
and Koch ; but the fl. are certainly only trimerous, — I can de- 
tect in them no “ linear scales,’’ — and the carpels are not “po- 
lyspermous.” This inconspicuous little moss-like pi. had escaped 
all observation till discovered by Sr. Moniz in 1860. From the 
remoteness, especially in elevation, of the two localities above 
indicated, it will probably be found more generally diffused, 
now that it has once been noticed. 
2. Umbilicus DC. 
Navel wort. 
1. U. PENDULINUS DC. Inhume de Galatixa. 
Root-1, peltate concave repandly crenate ; br. entire ; fl. pale 
y.-gr. inconspicuous mostly pendulous or drooping, throat con- 
tracted, segments short ovate, slam. 10 included. — DC. iii. 400; 
WB. i. 177 ; Koch 201 ; Seub. Fl. Azor. 42.no. 303. Cott/ledon 
Umhilicux (/3. L.), KB. t. 325 ; Brot. ii. 203 ; Sm. E. Fl. ii'. 314 ; 
Buch 190. no. 869: Bab. L28. Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1,2,3, I, ccc; 
PS. reg. 4, nr. Walls and rocks in Mad. everywhere, l'ico da 
