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the branches, the old ones long-persistent in decay beneath 
the new, 2-3 or 4 in. long and broad but extremely vari- 
able in breadth and in regularity of the ciliate serratures, at- 
tenuate at both ends, sessile or amplexicaul and copiously 
setoso-ciliate or fringed at their j miction with the st. Heads 
discoidal or inconspicuously radiant hemispherical, 1 in. in diani., 
but when corymbose often smaller (f in.), sometimes scat- 
tered singly or dispersed and few, sometimes corymbosely 
grouped together. FI. dull yellowish w. or straw-col. Outer 
leafy br. or apical appendages resembling the upper 1. and very 
variable in size and proportionate length, but mostly quite 
overtopping the heads and finely acuminate. Inner scales of 
inv. linear-ligulate radiant recurved dark discoloured steely- 
blackish coffee-brown or atropurpureous upwards, more or less 
produced into finely acuminate paler points. Ach. small brown 
oblong obconic, 3 millims. long, 1 broad, thickly and erecto- 
adpressedly shining-hirsute. Pappus pale brown. Setaceous 
chaffs of recept. pale brown nearly as long as the florets per- 
sistent and forming a fiat dense cusliion-like disk, linear-ob- 
long, deep-cleft into many parallel linear straight segments 
which are often tipped with red. 
The two subvarr. pass into each other by innumerable in- 
termediate forms. 
(3. biennis ; like a, but with the 1. and fl. br. or appendages 
quite entire and without or nearly without marginal setaceous 
cilia except a few sometimes quite at the base . — Carthamus 
salicifolius Linn. fil. “ Suppl. 350 Lam. Diet. i. 640. C. in - 
tegrifolius a, Sol. ! in BII. — Mad. reg. 2, rrr. Only on the Pico 
do llancho beyond Camera de Lobos. June. — L. 2-3 in. long, 
in. broad. Scarcely worth distinguishing except for the 
clear adj ustment of the synonyms. 
y. latifolia ; 1. and fl. br. quite entire and without setaceous 
cilia except a few on each side at the base, shortly lanceolate 
or subspathulately oblongo-lanceolate simply acute and cuspi- 
date or subobtuse and mucronate. — PS. reg. 1, rrj SD. reg. 
2, rr. In PS. near the edge of the sea-cliff above the Fonte 
d'Area, at l >to dos Frades, and on rocks at the mouth of the 
Serra de Dentro ; in SI), at the top of the island : in the two 
former cases in or near fossiliferous sand-deposits. May-July. 
— A lower stouter more dwarfish bushy and upright shr. 
than a, with Pbillyrea-like 1. 1-2 in. long," in. broad, dark 
bright shining gr. above and snowy-tomentose beneath. The 
heads .are smaller and their br. or apical appendages not finely 
acuminate but broader shorter more conspicuous and nume- 
rous than in a though not perhaps more so than in (3, giving 
the heads somewhat of a rose-like appearance. From these 
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