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41. umbellacile. 
taceous liair-like points muck longer than tke rays. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1, r. In cornfields to the E. of Funchal, S. Gon^alo 
1856, S r J. M. Moniz. May, June. — At once distinguished from 
the former common sp. by its altogether vastly larger size, tall 
erect habit with a distinct erect stout main stem developed at 
the expense of the side branches as in Imperatoria Ostruthium L. 
or Conium maculatum L. Whole pi. smooth, greyish rather than 
glaucous. St. 3-5 ft. high robust hard firm filled with pith 3-5 
lines in diam. or as thick as the little finger, round smooth or 
faintly striated, not branched below 4 or -f of its whole length 
downwards. Lower 1. 12-18 in. long of which the petiole is 
^ or |ds, with large lfts. 1-21 in. long and proportionately broad, 
pale- rather than glaucous-gr. The middle st.-l. pass by irre- 
gular intermediate gradations as to the size and shape of the 
lfts. into the upper which are finely decompound and sessile at 
the top of the sheaths of the shortened petioles. Every variety 
of decomposition is found in the 1. which are truly keteromor- 
phous ; one part of the same 1. having often leaf-like broad divi- 
sions, and the rest decompoundly linear-lanceolate or linear. The 
ultimate segm. of the upper 1. are equally variable in being 
either serrate toothed or perfectly entire. Fed. of umbel 6-10 in. 
long ribbed and angular. Umbels large many-rayed 3-5 in. in 
diam., confluent flat spreading; rays subequal slender 1-24 in. 
long rough with a few scattered minute points ; inv. large with 
very long linear-setaceous segm. Partial rays very numerous 
short and unequal, incurved in fr. scabrous 1-3 lines long ; in- 
volucels much longer than the rays and numerous. FI. rather 
smaller and less pure w. than in A. majus above. Ovary quite 
smooth. Styles a little longer than the stylopod, strongly deflexed 
in fr. Stylopod convex, in fr. conical. Fr. smooth angular with 
strong sharp pale ribs. 
I met with what seemed at the time to be entirely this pi. 
growing plentifully amongst corn in the S. of Grand Canary at 
Maspalomas, near the house of the Condedela Vega Grande, in 
March 1858 ; but I neglected unfortunately either closely to exa- 
mine or (from confidence in its identity) to preserve a spec. It 
is unrecorded by WB. in Phyt. Can. S r Moniz had first in 1856 
called my attention to it as distinct from the common A. majus 
L. in all its varying forms in Mad. 
But for the improbability of the occurrence in Europe of so 
fine a pi. as A. procerum in the absence of all notice of it by more 
recent authors, the following syn. would seem rather to belong 
to it than to the true A. majus L. Sp. PI. 349. 
A mini majus Herb. Linn.! quoad ex. Hort. Upsal., ideoque 
