492 
47. CO^POSITACEJE. 
cult, everywhere, and naturalized here and there, especially at 
Seixal. — Forms a low thickly leafy compact stiffly upright 
bush 8-12 in. high, with short stout tliickish branches and co- 
pious full-gr. slightly aromatic clammy foliage. L. 2 or 3 in. 
long and f-1 in. broad, somewhat succulent and minutely pus- 
tulato-punctulate, broader and much less attenuated downwards 
than in the two following sp. or broadly amplexicaul, rarely 
with here and there a tooth. FI. H-2 in. in diam. scented, 
mostly bright full orange. Scales of inv. viscous linear, the 
inner row alternate with and narrower than the outer. Heads 
in fr. forming a fiat level-topped disk. Acli. numerous crowded 
compact, of uniform regular height, the inner brown or blackish, 
the outer pale or straw-coloured. Varr. : — 
a 1. Disk and ray uniform orange, ccc. 
a 2. Disk and ray uniform pale y., rr. 
/3. Disk dark purple, ray orange, r. 
a varying also with entirely ligulate or double orange fl. 
2. C. arvensis L. Vaqueira. 
Herb. ann. ; st. somewhat slender and diffusely branched ; 
I. scattered subremote furry-puberulous light-gr. ligulate or ob- 
long-lanceolate remotely subdenticulate semiamplexicaul acute; 
II. 20-30-ray ed ; ach. all incurved, the outer 5 or 6 elongate 
linear-falcate suberect long-beaked armed or cristato-eckinate 
with long uncinulate dorsal spines and a strong inwardly pro- 
jecting spine-like tooth or spur at their inner base, the next 
inner row of 5 or 6 unbeaked shortly and broadly boatshaped 
or winged with involute dilated margins and armed or un- 
armed at the back, the rest narrow-hornshaped or annularly 
falcate unbeaked and unarmed but cancellately and muricately 
ribbed transversely at the back in regular rows. — Ger. p. 003. 
f. 10; Linn. Sp. 1303; Brot. i. 400; Lam. Enc.vii. 275; Pers. 
ii. 492; Buch L95.no.271; DC.lvi.462; WB.ii.341; Koch 
451 ; Coss. et Germ. ii. 405; Gr. et Godr. ii. 197 ; KFG. xv. 
t. 159. f. iv. ; Willk. et Lange Fl. Hisp. ii. 125. Caltlia ar - 
vensis Moris, ii. 14. § 6. t. 4. f. 6. Calendula amplcxifolia Reiclib. 
in Hoiks List? Hook. J. of Dot. i. 19. Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 
1 , 2, ccc ; PS. reg. 2, 3, cc. Vineyards, cornfields, roadsides, 
&c. everywhere, a universal most abundant weed in and about 
cult, ground. Throughout the year, but chiefly March-.] une. 
— At once distinguished from C. officinalis L. by its smaller 
paler fewer-rayed 11. paler foliage and weaker diffusely branched 
habit. St. very variable in size and luxuriance, often simple and 
only 2 or 3 in. high yet 1- or 2-fld., scarcely ever more than 8 
or 10 in. long and loosely branched, snbremotely leafy. Fl. 
f-1 in. in diam. pale tawny-y. The 4 or 5 outer seeds are 
