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forwards Jinely pectinate acuminate ; fl. few (2-5) together, ter- 
minal, scarcely corymbose ; ped. slender simple slightly thick- 
ened upwards; ligules w. rather short, disk golden-y. — Chry- 
santhemum dissectum Lowe Novit. 17 or 539. Argyranth. pin- 
natijidum Webb Icon, in WB. ii. t. 95. ff. 2 ?, 4. Stigmato- 
theca lacera Schultz in WB. ii. 257. Chrysanth. Broussonetii 
Pers. Syn. ii. 461 (not Balbis) hde Schultz in WB. 1. c. Chry- 
santh. grandjlorum a. adauctum (excl. habit. u Ten.,” ad Chr. 
Broussonetii Balbis spectante) et y subnudum (excl. habit. 
“ Can.”) 1)0. vi. 66 (not By rethrum grandjlorum Willd., Spr.). 
Matricaria pinnatjida (3 l)esr. in Lam. Enc. iii. 729. Pyre- 
thrum Broussonetii (3 elongatum Choisy in Buch Can. 149 (ex 
Sch. et DC.). — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, r. Towards thfe top of 
high sea-cliffs and on moist rocks of the interior ; top of the 
Cabo Giram, of Pico do Ilancho, and of the cliffs at P ta do 
Pargo ; also on banks and in hedges about cottages above the 
church at P :a do Pargo ; nowhere below 1200 ft. ; also high 
wet rocks on W. side of the Pico Grande. Apr.- July. — Shr. 
with the habit of A. pinnatijidum a, but more loosely or strag- 
glingly branched 2-4 ft. high, wholly smooth and inodorous. 
L. 3-5 in. long, 1^-2| broad, finely and pectinately 2-3-pinna- 
tisect, with all the divisions distinct straight regular, and, 
though fine and narrow, flat and leafy ; in outline or circum- 
scription lanceolate or ovate, cuneato-attenuate and mostly 
quite entire or without teeth below the lowest pinn.ne, of a 
bright full gr. and shining. FI. covering the whole bush, yet 
imperfectly corymbose on each branch, or in irregular few-fld. 
cymes. Ped. slender nearly all the way up, only a little 
thickened close below the heads, angular ribbed or striate. 
Heads larger and thicker than in A. pinnatijidum u, ; scales very 
broadly scarious, the inner almost wholly membranous pale 
(drab) brown. Ligules 15-20 (sometimes only 10 or 12), 6-8 
lines long, 14 broad, always pure w. Tube of th smooth or 
slightly resiuoso-punctate. Disk always golden-y. convex, in fr. 
conical. Ach. of ray broadly or narrowly boat-shaped like 
those of a Calendula, incurved, convex at the back, unequally 
3-winged, the ventral wing broadest and more or less distinctly 
1 -toothed in the middle, produced with the 2 side wings into 
a dimidiate stiff toothed crown or border, the sides and back 
even or faintly and irregularly ribbed, the whole quite smooth 
and not or almost imperceptibly reticulate or frosted, of a uni- 
form pale straw-colour not dotted with purple. Ach. of disk : 
outer 1-3 rows only fertile much compressed keeled at the 
back, the ventral margin only winged, the sides strongly 2- or 
3-ribbed, otherwise except in size like those of the ray ; the 
numerous inner rows abortive small compressed or linear, ribbed 
or striated but all with some remains of a ventral wing and 
dimidiate crown or crest reduced sometimes to a mere inm'r 
