AMHI. 
353 
verisimiliter Ammifol. inf. pinnatis lanceolatis &c. Linn. Hort. 
Ups. (1748) p. 59 P (not Linn. Sp. PL or at least only partly). 
A. majus Sloane! Herb. inBH. vol. 12. p.85; 138. p. 55 P (Duchess 
of Beaufort); 148. p.162 (Petiver); 244. p. 63 (fine spec., Miller); 
306. p. 91 (Uvedale). A. majus Sibth. FI. Gr. iii. 66. t. 273. 
u A. majus var.” (in pencil), Asia Minor, Aucber Eloy, Herbier 
d’Orient, no. 3676! Dalmatia, R. C. Alexander (H. K.) ! Thus 
in tbe Sloanian Herb., of 10 spec, called A. majus, 4 or perhaps 5 
resemble rather A. procerum. For invaluable help in this research 
into the Sloanian materials especially, I am indebted to Mr. Car- 
ruthers and the Rev. W. W. Newbould. 
3. A. Visnaga (L.) 
Dark or full-gr. ; st. roimd stout erect branched and lea fy 
throughout, bushy ; 1. all finely decompound 3-4-pinnatisect with 
very narrow-linear channelled elongate entire almost capillary 
segments ; umbels subterminal on short stalks scarcely rising 
above the foliage, spheroidal large and many-rayed; rays from a 
dilated thickened disk or head at top of ped. quite smooth and even, 
strongly infiexed and rigid infr. — Desf. i. 245 ; Biot. i. 444 ; DC. 
iv. 113; M B. ii. 150. JDaucus VisnagalAxm. Sp. 348; Buch 195. 
no. 290. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, r ; PS. reg. 1, r. Dry waste 
places about villages and amongst cornfields. E. end of the 
beach at Machico ; village of Can^al ; about the Pico de S. 
Martinho, da Cruz, &c. to the W. of Funchal ; cornfields about 
a mile above Porto Moniz, &c. In PS. about the town in dry 
bed of the Ribeiro and cornfields. May-Sept. — From 1 to 3 ft. 
high altogether smooth with stiff erect stout hard solid shining 
striated bright gr. st. and copious dark or full gr. fennel-like 
foliage. Umbels densely confluent fiat on stout stiff stalks 2-4 
or 5 in. long which expand at the top into a round dilated hemi- 
spherical disk ; rays very numerous crow*ded rather short dilated 
at top like the ped. ; general inv. many, finely pinnate with 
remote long linear segments like the 1. and much elongated 
after fig. Partial rays very numerous crowded; inv. many 
simple linear-setaceous. FI. minute densely crowded w. tinged 
with purple in the bud. Styles and stylopod w. in the 6., after- 
wards often purple, the former in fr. strongly divaricato-de- 
flexed and the latter conico-convex but less conspicuously than 
in the two preceding sp. Ov. quite smooth. Fr. very small 
proportionatelv, £ line long, smooth shortly oblong or suboval 
strongly ribbed. 
General rays after fl. becoming very hard and stiff, bending 
strongly inwards as in Daucus Carota L. and forming of the 
umbel a hollow inverted cone, with the general inv. hanging- 
down from its inverted apex. In the Canaries they are- some- 
