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necnon in liumo ad ambulacra hortorum, immixtis nunc Poa 
annua L., Oxalide corniculata L Trifolii sp., See., nunc Sagina 
apetala L. &c. ; ubique certe Senebierce didymee L. /3 pinnatijidxB 
statu praesertim juniore ante evolutionem gemmarum floren- 
tium, ob calathidia araneosa globosa foliorumque formam et 
divisiones simillima. Planta parum conspicua, quoad determi- 
nationem difficillima, obscura, facillime praetervisa v. confusa, 
vix vere indigena, copiose proveniens ad vicos urbis minus fre- 
quentatos liortorumque ambulacra humidiuscula hodie omnino 
hospitatur.” I am now however strongly inclined to believe 
the supposed young state of Senebiera didyma (L.) /3 here al- 
luded to, or at least that mentioned by myself at p. 36 supra , 
to have been really Soliva stobnifera itself. 
tfTribe VIII. Bellidece DC. 
fflO. Bellis L. 
ttl. B. PERENNIS L. Daisy. 
Root per. ; st. several short simple leafy prostrate or subter- 
ranean ; 1. crowded in a flat radical tuft or rosette 1 -ribbed ob- 
ovate-spathulate somewhat abruptly contracted into the petiole, 
obsoletely crenate-tootlied ; ped. radical simple 1-fld. ; scales of 
inv. subobtuse. — Linn. Sp. 1248; EB. t. 424; Sm. E. FI. iii. 
447 ; 1)0. ! v. 304 ; Koch 387 ; Bab. 172 ; REG. xvi. t. 27. f. vi. ; 
Willk. et Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 31. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, rrr. 
S. Antonio da Serra, abund. in the courts and paved roads 
around the Church and Pilgrims’ house, and extending some 
distance all round in the mountain turf; introd. originally with 
grass-seeds from England about the beginning of the present 
century by an English merchant, the late Mr. Willm. Casey, and 
thence transplanted to Camacha, and again by an English lady in 
1851 or 1852 to the Fanalon the road from the Paul to Rib. da 
Janella, where in 1855 it was becoming naturalized in the turf. 
March-July. — Root-stock or rhizome blackish, furnished with 
numerous strong brown stringy roots or fibres, either simple or 
dividing into 2 or more short underground branches 1-2 in. 
long, forming at their ends a fresh tuft of roots and 1. L. all 
radical or crowded at the base of the st. in a flat rose or tuft 
slightly still' or fleshy, bright shining gr., pubescent, indis- 
tinctly 3-nerved, the 2 side-nerves faint ami obscure, 1-2 in. 
long (including petioles), 5-7 lines broad. FI. -stalks all ra- 
dical slender 2-5 in. long ascending pubescent. FI. scentless 
£-f in. in diam., disk golden-y., ray w. mostly tipped with 
