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striking differences of aspect and habit, I have been often 
tempted to consider it distinct specifically: but never having 
seen it with the fl. quite developed, and considering especially 
the extreme variability of a and ,6 in almost every character of 
foliage and inflorescence, I cannot find sufficient warrant for 
distinguishing it more than varietallv. 
41. Lappa Tourncf. 
(. Arctium Linn., Till., YTilld.) 
Burdock. 
1. L. minor (Sclik.) DC. Teijcira, Tinjeira , Bardana or J Lur- 
ruca. 
Light gr. slightly viscoso-pubescent ; 1. stalked broadly oval 
or oblong softly repando-mucronulato-denticulate obtuse, the 
lower suborbicular cordate, upper cuneate at the base; heads 
stalked in terminal and axillary oblong rac ., scarcely cobwebby ; 
scales of iuv. all erecto-patent linear-acuminate, triquetro- 
subulate hooked and purple at the tip , subserrulate or slightly 
glanduloso-ciliate only at the base, the inner as long as and 
otherwise resembling the outer, not radiant, all shorter than 
the Jl. ; ach. slightly rugulose transversely at the base, border of 
epigynous disk even. — Arctium minus u Sclik. Handb. 3. t. 227 
Bab. 171. Lappa minor DC. vi. 661 ; Koch 463 ; Gren. etGodr. 
ii. 280; RFG. xv. t. 80. f. i. ; Willk. et Lange ii. 176. Lappa 
glabra a Lam. Diet. i. 377. Lappa communis var. « minor 
Coss. et Germ. ii. 389. Arctium Lappa Curt. FI. Loud. iv. 
t. 238; EB. t. 1228 (excl. section of head at lower left-hand 
corner) ; Buch 194. no. 245 (not Linn.). — Herb. bien. Mad., r eg. 
3 and upper part of 2, £. Dry wooded ravines or shady places ; 
Rib. Frio, da Metade, de S. Jorge, de S. Vicente, da Janella, da 
Seixal, da Serra d’Agua, de Machico, at S. Ant 0 da Serra about 
the church, above l >t0 da Cruz &c. July-Sept. — A large tall 
pi. with ample foliage, but altogether smaller and less coarse 
or cumbrous than the common English Burdock (/>. major 
(Sclik. ) = ArcHurn Lappa a Linn.) and with comparatively con- 
spicuous gay bright purple 11. St. erect not widely branched 
strong hard stiff and tough ribbed or striate mostly purplish 2- 
4 ft. high. L. 4-10 or 12 in. long or broad, smooth and light 
or fresh gr. above, paler and subpubescent but scarcely cot- 
tony beneath, tin* lower 3-ribbed and cordate or cut away on 
each side to the 2 side ribs as in Scrophularia Scorodonia L. 
Heals 4-f in. in diam. stalked subremote as it were in leafy 
oblong rac. dull purple about the size of hazel-nuts very 
slightly and sparingly arachnoidal, slightly viscous, not exces- 
sively prehensile. Florets conspicuous bright rose-purple, the 
