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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
with short erect mostly simple 1-fld. st. from the rooting 
nodes; 1. crowded ligulate-oblong or spatliulate 3-4 times as long 
as broad finely hipinnatipartite punctate, the divisions crowded 
upwards subsetaceous or narrow-linear acute ; heads small ray- 
less or discoidal globose or hemispherical solitary terminal, 
scales of inv. always close-pressed ; fl. homogamous, the tube 
at base completely embracing the top of the ach. and 2-auricu- 
late or 2-3-lobed or spurred ; chaffs oblong-lanceolate concave 
carinate obtuse, lacerato-toothed and slightly hairy upwards ; 
ach. (abortive) chestnut-brown trigonal smooth and even. — 
O. nobilis (3 discoidea Willk. et Lange ii. 89. Anacyclus aureus 
L. Mant. alt. 287 ; Willd. Sp. iii. 2172 ; Brot. i. 363 ; Brot. 
Phvtogr. ii. 188, t. 163 (excl. syn. Lam.) ; Pers. Ench. ii. 465 
(excl. var. /3) not Lam. Anthemis aurea DC. vi. 7 ; Webb 
It. Hisp. 37 ; Seub. Fl. Azor. 32 (not Brot.), Marcelia aurea 
Cass. “Diet. 34. p. 107.” — Lobel. Ic. t. 771. f. 2. — Herb. per. 
Mad. reg. 3, r. Open dry sunny mountain pastures. Pico da 
Sylva up the Caminho do Meio abimdant ; at the back of the 
Icehouse hill (Pico do Areeiro) near the P090 de Joncales 
(Joao Carlos?); about the Pouso, &c. June- Aug. — A small 
inconspicuous low prostrate cespitose villous-pubescent pi. with 
peculiarly fine delicate moss-like foliage of a somewhat grey or 
hoary dull gi\, with a bitter aromatic scent and flavour, gregarious 
or forming beds or patches in the short mountain turf. Roots 
creeping; each thickened woody root-stock or rhizome sending 
out, besides its own strong roots or fibres, horizontal runners 
rooting at their nodes and forming new pi. St. sometimes several 
procumbent or ascending 2-4 in. long from each rooting node or 
rhizome, but mostly single simple unbranclied erect 1-3 in. high 
1-fld., rarely with short leafy or sometimes 1-fid. side-branches, 
all hard strong tough thickly hoary-villous, often red or purple. 
L. at most 6-8 lines long, 2 lines broad narrow-oblong or linear- 
spathulate in outline, the lower pinnae short and remote, upper 
longer crowded and deeply cut into 2 or 3 or more segments, all 
the divisions extremely fine and narrow or almost capillary but 
fiat and linear, the ultimate segm. very acute but scarcely cuspi- 
date; the whole villous-pubescent and finely punctate. Heads 
golden-y. uniformly (even in cultivation) “ anacy clous ” or 
rayless, always solitary at the end of each st. or root-branch, 
on nlender erect villous-pubescent ped. rising in. above 
the 1., homogamous 3-4 lines in diam., in fi. hemispherical, in 
fr. shortly and obtusely conical or conico-globose. Inv. hemi- 
spherical, scales imbricate oblong obtuse broadly lacerato-sca- 
rious, clothed with ail very- villous hairs, at first gr. with brown 
edges, in fr. altogether grey or brown, and in all stages closely 
finnl v and compactly adpressed. Fl. of margin tubular equably 
5-cleft and perfect like the rest, with equal ovate segm. and 
no trace or rudiment of ligule. Tube of cor. rugose or scrobi- 
