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or even, stiff and hard, filled with pith, naked-looking upwards. 
St. petioles rachis and sheaths of 1. especially the lower glau- 
cous. Foliage dark gr. lowest 1. distichous stiff rigid with the 
segments all distinct and stiffly divaricate, the ultimate only 
i-2 lines long, those of the upper becoming gradually softer and 
longer ((>-8 lines) and those of the uppermost or floral 1-2-pin- 
nate 1. 1-2 in. long yet not pendulous or flaccid but Very few 
and remote ; in all the 1. channeled and flat not truly capillary 
setaceous or subulate. Sheaths of 1. large ample, of upper 1. 
longer than the 1. themselves. Principal umbels 3-4 in. broad, 
not confluent, rays unequal. Involucres 0. FI. small, y. Stigmas 
sessile large globose ; styles developed in fruit only, very short 
erect or subdivergent. Fr. oblong subcylindric (in English gar- 
den spec, thickly and shortly ovoidal) with 5 equal and nearly 
equidistant sharply prominent strong pale ribs without inter- 
mediate striae. Vittae 4 dorsal intercostal and 2-4 commissural : 
of the latter, 4 in the large central seeds of the main umbel and 
mostly 3 or sometimes only 2 in the rest. — A most variable pi. 
in height, foliage, size of umbels, &c. — The st., especially the 
barren leaf-st., clothed at the base with the closely-clasping 
distichously imbricated broad glaucous sheaths, always appear 
compressed, and often really are so, more or less, at least down- 
wards ; and the segments of the 1. vary no less in length than 
remoteness. Thus all the characters ascribed by DeCandolle 
to his three sp. of the genus, F. vulgare Gaertn., F. dulce C. Bauh. 
and F. piperitum DC., are found united in different states (large 
or dwarf ) or even stages (young or full-grown) of the present 
pi., as it is commonly seen wild in Mad. and the Canaries ; and 
an examination of spec, in BH. and HH. has afforded no better 
grounds for their conservation. 
Funchal doubtless is derived from Funcho (Fennel) as Car- 
valhal (a grove or place of Oak-trees) from Carvalho (an Oak), 
Sabugal from Sahugo (an Elder-tr.), Fayal from Faya, Seixal 
from Seixo, Pedregal from Peclre, Parreiral from Parreira, &c. 
9. Crithmum L. 
1. C. maritimum L. Samphire. Perrexil. 
Linn.! Sp. PI. 354; Desf. i. 248; Brot. i. 436; EB. t. 819; 
Sm.E. FI. ii. 73; DC. iv. 164; Koch 329; WB. ii. 159; Bab. 
146. C. maritimum and C. latifoliam Bucli 195. nos. 293, 294. — 
Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, r. on the S. coast, cc. on the N. ; PS. 
reg. 1, £. ND. r; GD. reg. 1, c; SD. reg. 1, r. Seacliffs and 
rocks at the Gorgulho, Praia Formosa, P ta do Sol, P ta de S. 
Louren 9 o, &c. here and there only on the S. coast. In the N. 
everywhere, S ta Anna, S. Jorge, S. Vicente, Rib. de Janella, &c. 
abund. J uly-Sept. — Whole pi. glaucous. St. several 6-12 rarely 
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