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47. COilPOSITACEJE. 
remoter rays than either. Outer row of seeds large, all mostly 
triquetrously winged, the 2 dorsal angles being expanded into 
broad thin subfoliaceous irregularly jagged or coarsely pinna- 
titid-tootlied flat broad crests or wings with the intermediate 
dorsal space shortly muricate ; the 3rd inner angle or midrib in- 
side also winged but more or less entire. The inner seeds simple 
subulate or slightly winged, rugoso-muricate at the back, and 
like the rest viscoso-glandular till ripe. 
The principal crop of fl. and fr. is from Jan. to May. But 
these, with their branches, having died away, another set is 
put forth in the following autumn from the lower part of the 
former st. 
C. amplexifolia Reichb., u ach externis triangula- 
ribus dorso dentatis,” might possibly have been this sp., but 
that it is said to have been found by Mr. Ildll “near the city ” 
(Funchal), where C. arvensis L., otherwise omitted by him, 
abounds, and C. maderensis does not occur. In any case, how- 
ever, the definition is too imperfect to warrant its quotation 
otherwise than as a synonym. 
