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length of ov. ; gen. inv. 1-leafed or 0 ; styles in fl. short and thick 
twice the length of stylopod or half that of ov., in fr. conspicuous 
but scarcely overtopping the rather long spreading or ascending 
glochidiate retro-scabrous bristles. — Caucalis arvensis Mscr. Ma- 
dera Sol. ! in BH.; Buch! 195. no. 289 (not Huds.). T. africana 
Bourg. ! PI. Can. no. 822 in BII. ? (not Spr.). — Herb. ann. Mad. 
reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc. Banks and waste ground among brambles by 
roadsides, in chestnut woods, borders of thickets &c. everywhere. 
Rib. de S ta Luzia, S. Vicente, Seixal, &c. a universal weed, 
especially in dry shady places. May-Sept. — Scarcely at all 
harsh or scabrous. St. erect slender nearly or quite straight and 
virgate 1-11 ft. high, much branched from the base upwards, 
the branches slender erect or erecto-patent ; st. quite smooth 
downwards, but inconspicuously more or less sprinkled upwards, 
like the petioles and ped., with minute short reflexed very close- 
pressed pellucid strigose hairs slightly bulbous at the base. 
Foliage rather bright or full gr. finely cut or divided, minutely 
and inconspicuously but thickly adpresso-strigulose yet not at 
all harsh ; the uppermost 1. ternately pinnate, not simply ter- 
nate. Ped. 2-4 in. long slender, the umbels quite overtopping 
the foliage and very numerous, 1 in. in diam., not confluent, with 
mostly 5 or 6 slender rays which are \ in. long and adpressedly 
erecto- strigulose. Fl. pure w. comparatively large and conspi- 
cuous, radiant pet. 1 line to ^ in. long. Anth. pink or lilac. 
Gen. inv. (about as often present as wanting) of one finely linear- 
acuminate 1. ; partial of several similar 1. Styles thick capitate 
with large or conspicuous presently dark-coloured stigmas, in 
fl. short not more than twice the length of stylopod or scarcely 
more than half the length of ov. ; in fr. subelongate and con- 
spicuous but still thick and shortish or not longer than the 
bristles. Fr. rather large oval with the bristles often purple. 
PI. altogether smoother, smaller finer and more delicate in 
habit, more copiously and less stragglingly branched, with more 
finely cut soft foliage and larger fl. than the two following sp. 
It comes nearest to T. africana Bourg. ! (not Spr.) PI. Can. 
no. 822 in BII., a Tenerifan pi., chiefly differing in the shortness 
of the styles : a character however which I have some reason for 
suspecting to be not altogether constant in the Mad. pi. From 
T. Helvetica (Murr.) Gmel., Koch (= T. infesta Sm., Bab. = Cau- 
calis infesta Curt. = C. arvensis Iluds. = ? C. Helvetica Jacq. Ilort. 
Vind. iii. t. 16) and from T. neglecta Schult., DC., Koch (= 
Scandix infesta Linn. ! ; Jacq. ! Fl. Austr. i. t. 46) it is quite dis- 
tinct in fl., fr., foliage and habit ; approaching in some respects 
nearest to the latter, but again receding in the short styles, 
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