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Canigal only. In PS. everywhere about the town in all the 
sandy region, Rib. de Cochim, Fonte d’Area, &c. In hot cal- 
careous sand everywhere except on the Brazen Head, where it 
flourishes equally in a strong red clay. March-June (Dec. also 
in PS., S r Moniz). — A low bushy corymbosely branched thickly 
leafy pi. mostly 2-6 in. high, rarely 6-12, of a light shining 
bright gr. (never at all glaucous) and altogether smooth rigid 
fleshy stiff and brittle, very sharply angular or almost winged. 
L. 1-2 in. long, half as broad, thick stiff and brittle subbi- 
pinnatifid, lobes subremote distinct inciso-toothed, teeth mostly 
acute, the margins revolute. FI. conspicuous half an inch in 
diameter bright full golden-y. in large many-fld. handsome 
cymes ; ped. much thickened and fleshy upwards, granulated 
or tubercled with numerous scattered fleshy bracts becoming 
more crowded upwards, but not forming any distinct cafycle ; 
all the br. ovato-lanceolate or ovato-linear, dilated sessile or 
semiamplexicaul fleshy and singularly gibbous or tumid at 
the base, finely acuminate black or discoloured at the tips ; inv. 
coloured i. e. pale greenish y. or lemon-y., with a dark or pur- 
plish-gr. ring at top; scales linear with pale membranous 
edges, gibbous and fleshy at the base, subpuberulous upwards 
and minutely bearded or pubescent at the tips. Heads shortly 
oblong or cylindric erect 2-3 lines long, 3 lines broad at top, 
many-fld., 7 or 8- (mostly 8-) rayed ; ligules of ray l|-2 lines 
long, 1 line broad, either shortly oblong or suboval, truncate or 
obtuse, soon reflexed and more or less revolute ; disk convex 
squarrose. Recept. small pustulate, sometimes alveolate, with 
the margins of cells raised 5-toothed or -angled. Ach. very 
small and narrow almost filiform, scarcely 1 line long or half a 
millim. broad, oblong-linear straight truncate at both ends, 
light brown, thickly clothed in lines with short upright silky- 
w. hairs. Pappus sessile softly pilose silky pure w., copious, 
about twice the length of ach., caducous. 
The very distinctive and unvarying characters of this gay 
and handsome little pi. are so much lost and obscured in dry- 
ing, that the spec, sent by me in 1832 to the author of the 
Prodromus was referred by him as a var. to S. crassifolius 
Willd. (a common Lanzarotan sp. in vineyards and cult, 
ground remote from the sea), from every form of which the 
Mad. pi. is certainly distinct. Though not found in the Ca- 
naries, I have specimens from the Salvages obtained by the 
kind exertions of the Barao do Castello de Paiva. 
tfSect. 3. Kleinanthus Lowe. Heads cylindric imper- 
fectly calyculate few-fld. Ligules 0 or few. — Wholly 
