478 
47. COUPOSITACE^E. 
subdenticulate, subcordately semiamplexicaul, heads in ter- 
minal erect somewhat leafy compound thyrsiform often few- 
tid. rac. ; scales of inv. all simple and scarious ; ligules con- 
spicuously longer than the scales. — Ait. Hort. Kew. (ed. 1 ) iii. 
223 ; Desf. ii. 274; Brot. Phyt. Lusit. ii. 190, t. 164; Pers. ii. 
452 ; DC. y. 470; WB. ii. 220; Willk. et Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 
42. Eriyeron viscosum Linn. Sp. 1209 ; Jacq. Hort. Vindob. i. 
t. 165 ; A ill. Dauph. iii. 240; Poir. in Lam. Diet. viii. 479. So- 
lidayo viscosa “ Lam. FI. Fr. ii. 144 ;” Brot. FI. i. 381. Puli- 
caria viscosa Koch 395. Cupularia viscosa Gr. et Godr. ii. ]81 ; 
RFG. xvi. t. 44. f. ii. — Sufffutesc. per. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. — AVaste 
rough broken ground or rocky banks under the sea-cliffs be- 
tween P ;a do Sol and Rib. Brava along the lower or coast road, 
especially about the Lugar Debaixo and between it and Tabiia, 
abundantly. July-Xov. — A low erect sparingly branched leafy 
bush 1-2 ft. high, of a pale bright gr., altogether pilose, more 
or less viscous, and sometimes staining the lingers brown with 
its clammy glandular villosity of 1. and st., with a strong and 
not unpleasant resinous-balsamic fragrance. Branches virgate 
erect stiff* woody and glabrescent downwards, villous and al- 
most shaggy upwards. L. rather harsh and stiff’ to the touch, 
2-4 in. long, broad, lanceolate or ligulate-lanceolate, irre- 
gularly sphacelato-serrulate, very acute, slightly cordate at the 
base, more or less villous. FI. in terminal long leafy pyra- 
midal or thyrsiform erect not crowded rac. compound down- 
wards, like those of a Michaelmas Daisy in size and habit, but 
bright golden-y. Heads viscous hemispherical moderately 
large 3-4 lines • in diam. Ped. slender furnished with several 
small linear scattered bracts. Scales of inv. loosely erecto- 
patent linear-lanceolate acute or obtuse imbricate very unequal 
in length, glandular-pubescent, none of them foliaceous, the 
outer with scarious edges, inner altogether scarious except 
a gr. midrib, subciliate-serrulate upwards, and, when obtuse, 
bearded or ciliate at top. Ligules conspicuous but short, nar- 
row linear, 2 lines long. Ach. H mill, long, ^ mill, broad, ob- 
long cylindric, obtuse at bottom, truncate and flat at top, even 
or ribless, but thickly clothed with short erect silky pubescence, 
pale straw-colour. Pappus always in Mad. and the Canaries 
a single row of fulvous or rufescent hairs 3 or 4 times the 
length of ach., minutely rough or ciliate, stiffish and very 
fragile or caducous as if jointed at the base, without any trace 
of an outer cup or ring, though the top of the ach. expands 
into a sort of brown collar, from the inner edge of which pro- 
ceed the hairs of the pappus. 
The ach. are ribless as in Cupularia Godr., but the pappus is 
truly simple in a single row, as in Inula , and without any outer 
crenulate short ring, cup or coronet of chaffy scales ; which 
