47. COMPOSITACEiE. 
411 
'herbaceous, cor. all equal regular subequally 4-fid. — Linn. Sp. 
142 ; Brot. i. 145 ; Hook. FI. Sc. i. 49 ; EB. t. 878 ; Sm. E. FI. 
i. 194; DC. iv. 660; Gr. et Godr. ii. 81; Bab. 163. Succisci pra- 
tensis Mnch., Spr. i. 378; Koch 377. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3, r. 
ot. hirsuta (Wallr.) DC. 1. c. ; 1. more or less hairy-pubescent. 
Linn. 1. c. yar. /3. — Rib. de S. Jorge, upper part, in the bed of 
the ravine; Boa Ventura, peaks to the west at the Boca das 
Torrinhas and all down the upper wooded part of the valley ; 
Head of Rib. de Joao Delgada; Rib. do Seixal, S r Moniz. 
July-Sept. 
/3. ylabrata (Wallr.) DC. 1. c ; 1. quite smooth. Mountain- 
range to the east of the Portella in cleared open spots amongst 
thickets on or towards the tops of the higher peaks. Aug., 
Sept. — Rhizome dark brown or black strong pnemorse or as if 
bitten off (whence the name Succisci or in English Devil’s bit) 
with long stout whitish roots or fibres, St. about 2 or 3 ft. 
high ascending straggling or widely and sparingly branched 
upwards with a pair of connate 1. at each division, hard and 
stiff, often v. or purple downwards, defiexo-pubescent. L. 5 or 
6 in. long, 1-2 broad shining dark gr. with a conspicuous pale 
midrib and long petioles, stiffish or subcoriaceous, in a more or 
less sprinkled with hairs all over or at least ciliato-pubescent 
at the edges which in both a and (3 vary from serrate to entire. 
Heads of fl. numerous on long slender erecto-pubescent ped., 
in. in diam. Fl. scentless pale purplish bl. or lilac often 
nearly w. Cor. outwardly pubescent. Bractlets lanceolate gr. 
upwards and fringed with very distinct long cilia. Setae or 
awns of pappus 5 rather short dark brown. 
Order XLVII. COMPOSITACE^E. 
The Compound-flower or Daisy, Thistle and Dandelion 
Family. 
Fl. compound, formed of several or many perfect or imper- 
fect regular or irregular mostly tubular or ligulate rarely 2- 
labiate fforets aggregate or closely crowded on a common re- 
ceptacle ( clinanthium Cass.) into a head (calathidium Cass., ca- 
pitulum DC., anthodium Ehrh.) surrounded by a many-leaved 
involucre ( periclinium Mirb., common cal. L.) formed of one or 
more rows of close erect scales ( phyllaries or bracts). Cal.- 
tube proper of each fit. united wholly to the ov. ; limb superior 
obsolete or developed in fr. into a scaly or chaffy, setose pilose 
or plumose crown {pappus). Fils, often with a scale-like 
membranous bractlet {chaff or scale, pale a) at the base. Cor. 
gamopetalous superior inserted at top of cal. -tube, either tu- 
bular and regularly 4-5-fid or semitubular and irregularly 
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