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47. COMPOSITACEiE. 
or drooping, the old dried up 1. persistent in thick reflexed tufts 
below the fresh terminal 1., short (1^-2 in. long), nearly as broad, 
subtriangular in outline, deeply twice rarely thrice-pinnatipar- 
tite, their segments flat with a faint midrib, |-f in. long 1-14 
line broad. Panicles 5 or 6 in. long, half as broad, pyramidal 
or thyrsiform, composed of numerous erect simple or compound 
branched rac. of stalked secund globose or semiglobose heads, 
2 lines broad and 1^ long, on curved ped. 1-3 lines long 
drooping on one side. Br. leafy simple linear at base of each 
ped. 1-0 lines long. Inv. w. and altogether tomentose ; fl. dull 
dark golden y., smooth upwards, tube resinoso-punctate and 
sometimes hairy. Recept. setose or villous all over, comex 
and pulvinate when the hairs or sette are fallen. Branches of 
style short pubescent at the tips, clavate in the perfect fl., fili- 
form in the female of the margin. 
Used occasionally in fomentations by the country people. It 
is assuredly Bowdich’s u Composita” &c. (Exc. in Mad. p. 87) 
found in the I. Debaixo. 
The Canarian Incienso (A. ccinariensis Less.) much resem- 
bles this, but, besides other distinctive characters, has a very 
different strong and peculiarly pungent disagreeably aromatic 
scent, diffusing itself automatically all about. Schultz in WB. 
ii. 302 considers it, I think erroneously, a mere var. of A. cir- 
yentea Her. The Cape Verde A. Goryonum Webb also closely 
resembles the Mad. pi. in habit, foliage and inflorescence, but 
recedes still further from it than the Can. pi. 
Tanacetum Balsamita L. Sp. 1148, Brot. ii. 354, Koch 407 ( Bal - 
samifa vulgaris W., B. suaveolens Pers. Ench. ii. 408, Pyre- 
thrum Tanacetum DC. vi. 63) herb. per. with creeping roots 
or rhizomes, simple oblong-oval finely crenulate stalked pale 
grevish-gr. root-1, with a mint-like fragrance, and erect fl.-st. 
(very rarely thrown up in Mad.) with a terminal compound 
cyme of golden y. discoidal fl., is seen occasionally in cot- 
tage gardens. It is w'ell figured in Gerard’s Herbal (ed. 1.) 
p. 523. f. i. under the name of Balsamita mas or Costmarie. 
RFG. xvi. t. 104. f. ii. represents the pi. much more luxu- 
riant and with larger greener 1. than I have ever seen it in 
Mad. 
fTribe VII. Hippie a; Less. 
t9. Soli v a Ruiz et Pav. 
fl. S. KTOLONIFKRA (Brot.). 
Stoloniferous prostrate cesnitose smooth or subpubescent ; 1. 
stalked pinnatipartite 5-9-looed somewhat succulent or fleshy, 
