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which, however, are not almost wholly invisible in fr. as they 
are in T. Helvetica (Murr.). 
2. T. obscura Lowe. 
Strigosely harsh or scabrous ; st. and branches stout straggling 
widely divaricate strigose throughout, the latter remote ; foliage 
harsh somewhat coarse and scanty or remote with large leafy 
divisions, dark lurid gr. ; 1. few and distant harsh ternately 1-2- 
pinnate, upper twice ternate, uppermost simply ternate ; lfts. re- 
mote large leafy or broadly lanceolate coarsely inciso-toothed, 
the terminal one of upper 1. conspicuously produced elongate 
and drooping; umbels terminal, erect in bud, on long ped., 8-12- 
ray ed ; partial umbels flat ; fl. small dull w r ., radiant pet. as long 
as ov. ; gen. inv. 1 -leafed or 0; styles long and slender, in fl. 
3 or 4 times the length of stylopod or as long as ov., in fr. 
elongate and quite overtopping the rather long spreading or 
ascending retro-scabrous glocliidiate bristles. — Herb. ann. Mad. 
r eg. 1, 2, c. Waste ground among vineyards near Funchal, about 
the Quinta do Valle, seaclifls to the eastward, &c. June, July. — 
Very distinct from T. tenuifolia by its robust straggling habit, 
stout widely forked branches, coarse scant dark-gr. leafy droop- 
ing foliage and many-rayed small-fld. umbels. Fl. 1-2| ft. high 
sparingly and stragglingly fork-branched, branches stout and 
stiff deflexedly adpresso-strigose. Foliage peculiarly dark and 
lurid gr. large distinct scanty harsh and strigose, with large 
broad leafy recurved and drooping ternate lfts. coarsely but not 
deeply cut or toothed. Ped. 2-4 in. long, stout strigose ; umbels 
not numerous or distinctly overtopping the foliage, 1-1^ in. in 
diam. not confluent with mostly 9 or 10 slender rays which are 
^-1 in. long and adpressedly erecto-strigose. Fl. dull w. small 
and inconspicuous, the radiant pet. £ line long. Gen. inv. 
mostly 0, when present, like the several partial, linear-acumi- 
nate. Styles capitate divaricately spreading or recurved, in fl. 
distinctly long and slender, and in fr. conspicuously elongate or 
longer than the bristles, and thus, besides the shape of the fr. 
itself, which resembles otherwise that of T. tenuifolia, at once 
distinguishing this pi. from the British or European T. Helvetica 
(Murr.) to which in habit and foliage it in some degree ap- 
proaches. Commissure of mericarps very narrow-linear with a 
hispid or bristly rib on each side. 
3. T. B RE VIBES Lowe. 
Smoothish or obsoletely and not harshly scabrous ; st. and 
branches stout erect or the bitter erecto-patent and subremote, 
both with the petioles verv minutely subpuberulous and nearly 
or quite smooth downwards; foliage soft and decompound with 
rather fine and deeply cut divisions, dark or full gr. ; 1. not harsh 
2-3-pinnatisect, upper 2-pinnate, uppermost ternately 2-pinnate 
