SOLIVA. 
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lobes subopposite subobtuse entire or rarely 1-3- toothed ; heads 
sessile at the crown of the several root-stocks, araneoso-tomen- 
tose or thinly 'woolly ; ach. smooth wedge-shaped with thick- 
ened broad transversely ribbed or rugose wings. — S. Lusitanica 
“ Less. Svn. 268 DC. vi. 142. Hippia stolonifera Brot. i. 373 ; 
ejnsd. Phytogr. Lusit. fasc. i. (1801) no. 14 ; ed. 2 (1816) i. 
72, t. 73. ff. 2, 3; Pers. Syn. ii. 497 ; Willd. iii. 2383. Gym- 
nostyles ? stolonifera Juss. Ann. Mus. iv. 262. G. lusitanica 
Spr. iii. 500. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r. In paved roads, 
streets and garden walks in and about Funchal and in the 
Plane-tree Passeio at S ta Cruz, running abundantly amongst 
the stones and often mixed with Sayina apetala L. First pro- 
perly observed and identified by the Barao do Ca^tello de 
Paiva in April 1860, though the little pi. found on the Mount 
road about the Valle in 1837 and mentioned in this work, supra 
p. 36, as a curious young state of Senebiera didyma (3 pinna- 
tifda was most probably the present pi. Febr.-May. — A mi- 
nute inconspicuous little pi. not above an inch high, the st. 
spreading and creeping close to the ground in small cespitose 
confluent patches, each 2-5 in. in diam. of a rather dark full- 
gr., marvellously resembling in habit and foliage Senebiera di- 
dyma (L.) /3 DC., though at once distinguishable by the want 
of all bitter biting taste, and by the simply pinnatilobate 1. 
Stem slender filiform, rooting at the nodes. L. 2-5 lines long, 
1-3 broad, with flattened slightly winged or margined pe- 
tioles a little dilated upwards as long as or a little longer 
than the 1. themselves. Heads large in proportion, about 2 
lines in diam., much resembling those of Trifolium tomento- 
sum L. or T. resupinatum L., dull hoary grey, mostly solitary 
but crowded towards the centre of the pi. Styles of the nu- 
merous female marginal fits., which occupy at least f of the 
convex disk, distinct long and prominent simple or but slightly 
bifid at the tip. Scales of cup-shaped inv. distinct oblong ob- 
tuse shorter than the disk thinly herbaceous, with pale mem- 
branous tips and margins. Ach. large in proportion, |-f 
line long, pale straw-col., auriculato-truncate and sinuatelv 
lobed with a tooth on each side at top, dorsallv compressed 
with broad tumid spongy or corky margins which are very 
strongly plicato-ribbed transversely on the ventral or inner face 
and on the outer or dorsal similarly but more partially or in- 
completely ribbed or corrugated on the tumid rib-like edges or 
borders of the depressed body of the seed itself, with the edge 
of the wing sharp and thin. Style persistent abruptly winged 
or dilated at the base, rather longer than the ripe ach. 
I subjoin the following note furnished by the Barao do Cas- 
tello de Paiva at the time of its discovery : “ In basalticis hu- 
midiusculis urbis Funchalensis ad vias lithostratas inter lapides, 
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