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the principal ravines. Rib. de Joao Gomes, de S ta Luzia, da 
Metade, de S. Jorge, &c. ; Pico Grande ascending from the 
Curral das Freiras, Passo d’Area, &c. in the N. July-Oct. — A 
tail-growing pi. with large handsome shining foliage ; once 
esteemed a sovereign remedy under the name of Masterwort, 
and hence a not unfrequent weed in old gardens &c. in England, 
though now long since disused. Root large thick creeping, dark 
brown. St. 2-4 or 5 ft. high simple or sparingly branched round 
and even or very faintly striated, rather slender pale g r. smooth 
and shining like the whole pi. Lfts. large bright shining gr. 
slightly coriaceous or rigid with sharp rigid pale or whitishjeeth ; 
those of the lower 1. 3-6 in. long and half as broad, the 2 side- 
lfts. being sessile very inequilateral with the outer side broadly 
rounded or half-cordate at the base, the middle 1ft. subequi- 
lateral and cuneate-stalked. Lfts. of upper 1. about 3 in. long and 
4-f in. wide. All are acute or acuminate. Umbels large con- 
fluent with very numerous unequal rays. Partial inv. inconspi- 
cuous linear-setaceous few or numerous, as long as or longer 
than the very numerous partial rays. Gen. inv. mostly 0. FI. 
w. or whitish moderately large. Styles divaricate capitate nearly 
as long as the ov. persistent. Fr. (unripe in spec.) small oblong 
or elliptic, compressed transversely, the juncture broader than 
the tranverse diam. and slightly winged. When fully ripe it is 
described by Sm. (E. FI. 1. c.) as u orbicular having a sinus at 
top and bottom and a rounded dilated closely compressed mar- 
gin ; ” and by Grenier et Godr. FI. de Fr. i. 691 as “ ovate-orbicu- 
laire, enlarging a la base et au sommet, a cotes rapproches, a 
marge large et plane.” 
Tribe IV. Silerinece. 
11. Krubera Hoffm. 
1. K. PEREGRINA (L.). 
The only known sp. — K. leptopliylla “ Hoffm. Umb. 104. t. 3”; 
DC. iv. 199; WB. ii. 163 (erroretyp. K. leptijlora). Tordylium 
peregrimim Linn. Mant. 55; Mart. Mill. Diet. no. 3. Conium 
dichotomum Desf. i. 246. t. 66. u Ccipnophyllum dichotomum 
Lag. Gen. et Spec. 13.” “ Ulospermum dichotomum Link Enum. 
Hort. Berol. i. 267.” Cachrys dichotoma Spr. Svst. i. 892. — 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, rr ; PS. reg. 2, rr. — Cornfields and in 
waste or fallow ground amongst them. Fields above the E. end 
of the Praia Formosa to the W. of Funchal. In PS. about Ca- 
macha here and there sparingly. April. — A rather elegant 
small dichotomously branched somewhat bushy stiffly erect pi. 
of very short duration, 6-10 or 12 in. high, with finely decom- 
pound smoky rather than glaucous dull gr. foliage. Root long 
simple tapshaped whitish with the smell and taste of a carrot. 
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