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culate completely embracing- with its base introsusceptively the 
top of ach. or ov., 2-3-angled or winged, the wings or angles 
always produced downwards into either 2 distinct opposite 
auricles or 2 or 3 short lobes or spurs. Recept. in fr. nar- 
rowly and highly i. e. pyramidally or cylindrically elongato- 
conic, twice as high as broad, solid within, chaffy all over; 
chaffs as long as tube of ff concave and embracing- the fl. or ach., 
oblong-lanceolate obtuse and irregularly toothed or sublacerato- 
serrate upwards, very pale opake straw-colour with broad thin 
silvery-membranous hyaline colourless margins, sprinkled up- 
wards with a few w. scattered hairs. Ach. all abortive in my 
numerous Mad. and Portuguese specimens, very small uniform 
dark chestnut- brown, altogether smooth or naked, cuneatfe with 
straight not bulging sides, subcompressed distinctly trigonal i. e. 
with the back Hat and even and the inner face strongly 3-ribbed 
with the middle keel sharper or more prominent than the 2 
lateral. Occasionally but rarely a 4th rib is developed on the 
back, making the ach. appear subtetrahedral instead of trigo- 
nal. Top of ach. completely inserted into the spurred or lobed 
base of the persistent cor. as into a socket. Crown or border 0. 
Adheres slightly to the paper chiefly by the heads in drying. 
A much smaller pi. with far more delicate nross-like hoary 
(not full-gr.) foliage and suffrutescent dry hard (not at all suc- 
culent) st. than the common English Chamomile or Onnenus 
nobilis (L .)=Anthemis nobilis L., EB. t. 980, I)C. vi. Q=Cha- 
momilla nobilis Gren. et Godr. ii. 150; differing further not 
only in the mostly simple short erect 1-fld. st. and smaller con- 
stantly rayless or discoidal heads of fl. and (in outline) narrow 
spathulate or ligulate 1. (not short ovate or ovate-oblong or 
less than twice as long as broad as in EB. t. 980) but also in 
having the tube of cor. always spurred or lobed at the base (not 
“ non appendicule ” Gr. et G.), with the (abortive) ach. uni- 
form dark chestnut (not “verdatres” or u munis de 3 cotes 
blanches sur la face interne " ) and in shape simply cuneate-tri- 
gonal with straight sides (not u oboves-en-coin ”). It is also 
clear, by careful comparison with Portuguese spec, from the 
Barao do Gastello de Paiva and with the Lisbon “Macella” of 
the shops in Eunchal, that botanically the Mad. pi. is precisely 
identical with the Portuguese or Anacyclus aureus of Brotero. 
The Lisbon “ Macella ” has however a sweet honey-like fra- 
grance instead of the peculiar bitter aroma of the Mad. pl M 
which, Sn r Mauricio de Machado informs me, possesses also 
