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41. UMBELLACE2E. 
times used for toothpicks, but I have never seen them so em- 
ployed in Mad. 
5. Bttkettm L. 
1. B. brevifolium Lowe. Norqa, nozinha. 
St. simple, somewhat stout and mostly straight, erect round 
glaucous ; 1. all alike, shortly stalked and broadly deltoidal, 
rigid decompound pectinately and subternately 2-4-pinnatisect, 
segments flat entire short linear-lanceolate opposite remote, 
sheaths of the short petioles large and broad ; umbel 8-10-rayed, 
gen. and partial inv. 0 ; stylopod at first tumid or pulvinate then 
conic ; styles very short erect, in fr. divergent ; fr. oblong with 
the stylopod conic and vallectdae 3-vittate. — Xovit. p. 21 or 543. 
— Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3, rrr. Highest mountain slopes or ledges 
of the Serra d’Agua and Curral das Freiras. At a place called the 
Cantareiras above the spring of the Capella das Almas, on grassy 
slopes or banks at a height of 5000 ft. at the base of rocky clifl's 
along the lofty ridge or chain running N. from the summit of the 
Pico Grande on the path leading down from the latter to the 
Encumeada de S. Vicente (Lowe). Encumeada alta on Pico Ruivo 
(Moniz). Said also to be found in several parts of the mountains 
above the Jardim towards the Serra d’Agua and Pico Grande by 
the shepherd-boys, who seek eagerly for the roots to be eaten 
raw like Pignuts (the roots of the nearly allied B. Jlexuosum 
With, or denudation DC.) in England. To this and to their de- 
struction by the wild pigs, which are also said to search for and 
devour them greedily, may be ascribed in great measure the 
present rarity of the pi. June-Aug. — Root a globose or oval 
firm hard and solid dark brown roughish tuber buried an inch 
or two below the surface, yellowish-w. within, from the size of 
a hazel-nut to that of a walnut, not crisp or fibrous but farina- 
ceous in consistence, with an agreeable sweet nutty flavour com- 
bined with a somewhat strong taste of carrots. St. single and 
simple or unbranched except at top, attenuated below the sur- 
face of the ground almost to a thread quite at its origin from one 
of the several prominent “ eyes ” of the tuber and sometimes a 
little waved or fiexuose but mostly nearly or quite straight with 
only a single abrupt twist at its origin : above the soil straight 
erect unbranched irom (5 to 12 or 15 in. high and lines or 
5 mill, in diam., robust and firm or stiff, appearing almost swollen 
in the middle, fistulose quite round and smooth (like the whole 
pi. in every part), striated faintly below, more strongly upwards, 
glaucous. L. small few remote and inconspicuous, scarcely glau- 
cous shortly triangular broader at the base than long, with short 
very broad sheathing petioles £-1 in. long, being themselves 
1-4 in. long; their divisions mostly opposite and the ultimate 
segments subternate, those of the upper 1. being simply acute, 
of the lower subobtuse with an abrupt mucro ; all remote narrow 
