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or half-complete. Recept. naked, in fr. plano-convex or de- 
pressed^ subhemispherical. 
fl4. Chrysanthemum L. 
( Xanthojphthcdmum Schultz in WB. ii. 250.) 
tl. C. segetum L. Malmequer or Pampilho. 
St. subglauceseent diffusely erect or ascending sparingly and 
widely branched , rarely erect from the base, each ultimate 
branch 1-fid. ; 1. thickish stiff or someiuhat fleshy coarsely and 
irregularly inciso-toothed or gashed, the lower dilated and sub- 
trijvdly pinnatilobate or pinnatifid upwards * oblong or cuneate- 
oblong and finely toothed irregularly downwards ; fl. solitary 
terminal, ped. thickened upwards ; ach. of ray obcompressed 
squarish-oblong nearly as broad as long. — Linn. Sp. 1254 ; 
Desf. ii. 282; Brot. i. 378; EB. t. 540; Pers. Syn. ii. 463 ; Buch. 
195. no. 265 ; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 449 ; DC. vi. 64 ; Koch 419 ; 
Seub. Fl. Az. 32 ; Bab. 176; REG. xvi. t. 95. f. i; Willk. et 
Lange Fl. Hisp. ii. 134. — Herb. ann. Mad. r eg. 1, 2, c. PS. 
reg. 2, r. Cornfields and waste ground ; Loo-fields, S. An- 
tonio, S. Martinho, S ta Anna, S. Vicente, &c. April- July. — 
Root small simple clothed with fibres, vertical. St. 6-12 or 
18 in. long, more or less diffusely straggling or ascending, and 
only perfectly erect from the base when drawn up amongst 
corn &c. ; the branches pale and somewhat succulent, forked 
and spreading diffusely at wide angles. Whole pi. somewhat 
succulent smooth scentless. L. glaucescent, often decidedly 
and strongly glaucous, especially the lower, which form, before 
the fl. appear, a flat close-pressed rose ; all stem-clasping and 
subauriculate, the lower 1-2^ in. long, |-1 in. broad at the di- 
lated trifidly pinnatisect ends, the lobes of which are again 
coarsely and irregularly cut or toothed, the teeth all acute. 
Upper 1. lanceolate and simply cut or toothed. Fl. large and 
handsome bright full golden -y., on rather short naked striated 
subclavate hollow ped. at the end of each branch, not corym- 
bose, 1 in. in diam. Heads umbilicate. Outer scales of inv. ’ 
half-ovate or ovate-oblong gr. with scarious tips and edges, 
inner broadly oblong-spathulate and broadly scarious at top, all 
obtuse concave unequal fleshy pale greenish-y. glaucescent. 
Ligules y. very broad, about as long as diam. of disk or 4-6 
lines long 1 and 2 or 3 broad ; disk convex. Ach. small brown ob- 
tusely ribbed incurved abruptly truncate at top without any 
crown, teeth or border; those of the ray broader but scarcely 
larger than the rest, with 3 dorsal and 3 or 4 ventral ribs all 
equal except the middle ventral rib which is more prominent, 
the sides or edges narrowly and sharply winged ; ach. of disk 
