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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
long, lower evanescent or 0. Cymes terminal 6-12 in. broad, 
branches widely forked remote straggling with an auricled- 
stalked 1. at each main division; ultimate cymes 4-12-fld., 
ped. slender erect with small linear-acuminate erect or loosely 
erect br. all the way up but not collectedly at the base of the 
inv. which is light gr. dark purple or blackish at the base. 
Scales strongly 3-ribbed or grooved oblong acute, the tips dark- 
purple, of the outer scales subcuspidate and quite smooth, of 
some of the inner less acute or even obtuse and distinctly bar- 
bulate-pubescent or fimbriate. FI. about half an inch in diam., 
handsome but most disagreeably scented ; fits, of both disk and 
ray rich bright purple varying a little in intensity ; ligules of 
the ray rather paler than the convex disk, 2-3 lines long or 
about equal to diam. of disk, half as broad. Ach. erecto- 
pubescent. Pappus w. silky rough. Recept. flat naked shortly 
setose or bristle-toothed. 
Strictly peculiar and confined to Mad. and PS., where it is 
the sole representative of a group of several very similar Ca- 
narian sp. The At^ores also produce one only, peculiar to 
themselves : the Cape Verdes not one. 
Assuredly the name auritus from Cineraria anrita Herit. 
(Sert. Angl., 1788) or from even C. aurita Ait. (Hort. Ivew. ed. 
1., 1789) properly belongs to this pi., being anterior both to C. 
aurita Andr. (Bot. Rep. 1797) = Senecio cruentus (Herit.) and 
to Sen. auritus Willd. = Sen. auriculatus Desf. (not Vahl). The 
restoration of its old name to the Mad. pi. necessitates the im- 
position of a new one, S. Fontainesii, after its original dis- 
coverer, on S. auriculatus Desf. (S. auritus Willd.), S. auri- 
culatus Vahl having a prior claim to S. auriculatus Desf. 
Klcinia repens (L.) DC. vi. 337, called “Balsamo,” is not an un- 
common inmate of cottage-gardens, the resinous juice of its 
leaves being a favourite and really efficacious remedy for cuts 
or wounds. It is often seen hanging profusely over walls, 
but can scarcely be considered fairly naturalized. 
Tribe V. Cotulece Less. 
tf7. Cotula L. 
ttl. C. CORONOPIFOLIA L. 
Smooth herbaceous; st. creeping ascending or procum- 
bent and rooting downwards ; 1. linear lanceolate stem-clasp- 
ing and sheathing at the base irregularly laciniato-pinnatihd 
or pinnatisect and toothed ; 11. solitary terminal subglobose 
