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the length of those of the inv. and like them sometimes 
black-tipped ; fl. of margin with a very short inconspicuous re- 
volute ligule ; ach. distinctly ribbed and angular finely and 
shortly adpresso-pubescent. — Linn. Sp. 1217 ; Brot. i. 388 ; Pers. 
ii. 434; EB. t. 748; Sm. E. FI. iii. 430; DO. vi. 342; Koch 
426 ; Coss. et Germ. FI. Par. ii. 418 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. Ill ; 
RFG. xvi. t. 69. ff. ii, iii ; Willk. et Lange FI. Ilisp. ii. 123. 
a S. viscosus Buch ! 194. no. 261 in part (not Linn.). S. viscosus 
var. hypoJeuca Hoiks List ! i. e. u Holl et Reich, in Ratisb. FI. 
1830, p. 382 ” (not Linn.). S. lividus DC. ! vi. 343 quoad pi. 
Mad. solum ej usque syn. Holl et Reich, (not Linn.). — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc. GD. reg. 2, Sunny waste 
ground, banks and mountain pastures chiefly above 2000 ft. 
everywhere, springing up especially in woodlands and on moun- 
tain-sides freshly cleared by burning. About the Valle (Fun- 
chal), S. Martinho, Mount Camacha, mountain pastures up the 
Caminho do Meio, thickets of Vaccinium below the Ice-house, 
Rib. da Metade, Pico Ruivo up to the very top, whole plain 
of the Paul, P t0 da Cruz &c, Febr.-Oct. — Varying wonder- 
fully in luxuriance and stature from 1 inch, with only 1-3 or 
4 heads of fl., to 1 or even 3 or 4 ft. high with ample many- 
fld. cymes, but otherwise in habit constant. Whole pi. rather 
pale or dull gr. and fetid with the strong pungent scent of 
Ballota nigra L., clothed with short somewhat scaly or fur- 
furaceous cottony crisped pubescence and slightly viscid. St. 
simple branched only upwards into the terminal cyme, clothed 
all the way up with at first stalked then sessile or half am- 
plexicaul more or less auricled 1. 1-3 in. long and 3 or 4-12 lines 
broad, remotely equidistantly and regularly pinnatilobate, the 
lobes coarsely and somewhat bluntly sinuate-toothed with re- 
volute margins. Heads always erect 3-4| or even 5 lines 
long, l|-2 lines broad, at first narrow cylindric-oblong, then 
elongato-conoidal, swollen at the base, subglanduloso-puberu- 
lous, on slender thickly but shortly glandular-pubescent viscous 
ped. Scales of inv. and of calycle linear acuminate gr. herba- 
ceous scarcely fleshy minutely bearded at the tip which is about 
as often black or purple as undiscoloured or herbaceous ; nor is 
there any regularity of correspondence in the Mad. pi. between 
either of these characters and any other variations in pubes- 
cence, stature, station or luxuriance. Fl. y. apparently dis- 
coidal and like those of S. vidgaris L., but always with an in- 
conspicuous ray of short revolute remote ligules. Ach. dark 
coffee-brown or black, one line long, linear or narrowly elliptic- 
oblong angular and many-ribbed or striate, covered with short 
w. erect subadpressed silky pubescence. Pappus sessile softly 
pilose pure w. smooth copious, scarcely more than twice the 
length of ach. Recept. convex naked alveolate, the angles 
of the cells toothed. Scales of inv. strongly reflexed at last. 
