CICHORIUM. 
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Tribe XXIII. Hyoseridea Gren. 
f43. Cichorium L. 
Succory, Endive. 
•fl. C. diyaricatum Scliousb. Almdrao , Almeirante or Al- 
mirante , PS. 
Furrv-glabrescent subaphyllous ; st. mostly slanting often 
flexuous very widely divaricately branched from the, base, 
branches horizontally straggling or deflexed stiff naked even or 
very obsoletely striate ; root-1, runcinate or lyrato-runcinate 
and finely sinuato-denticulate, stem-1, inconspicuous small bract- 
like shortly cordate-acuminate sessile or semiamplexicaul en- 
tire or toothed only at the base ; fl. axillary partly sessile partly 
stalked on long wide-spreading straight or decurvato-ascending 
branch-like fistulose subclavate stalks or ped., often gemi- 
nate, one sessile, one stalked : scales of outer inv. broadly ob- 
long or oval obtuse mucronate, of inner linear-ligulate sub- 
obtuse, all simply setoso- or piloso-ciliate not glanduliferous ; 
“pappus-crown of numerous distinct chaffs the length of 
the plain or even (not transversely lineolate) ach.” — “Schousb. 
Maroc. 197 ; Willd. iii. 1609 ; Guss. Sic. ii. 427 Poir. Suppl. 
ii. 229 ; Pers. ii. 379; Gren. et Godr. ii. 237 ; Willk. et Lange 
ii. 205; RFG. xix. t. 6. f. iii. C. Intybus Bucli ! 194. no. 
239 (not Linn.). C. Intybus divaricatum DC. vii. 84. C. 
Endivia b. divaricatn WB. ii. 391. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 
2, c; PS. reg. 1, 2, ccc; not seen in the Desertas. Borders of 
cornfields and vineyards, waste ground, and roadsides general, 
about Funchal both E. and W., at the Mount, &c. ; on P ta 
de S. Louren(‘o about the Piedade, &c., and everywhere in 
PS. March-Sept. — Whole pi. varying from smooth to more or 
less hairy but mostly smooth and shining, dark or full gr. 
Boot long simple tap-shaped tapering pale or whitish. St. 
6-18 in. long, rising often obliquely from the crown, rarely 
erect often flexuous, excessively rigid hard and stiffly strag- 
glingly-branched, mostly purplish and smooth but sometimes 
somewhat hairy, always round and even, appearing much more 
branched than it really is from the long branch-like ped. of 
many of the 6., and leafless from the small size of the 1. which 
are reduced upwards to mere cordate-acuminate amplexicaul or 
sheathing purpui ascent bracts with a w. or pale brown mark 
or scar at their base. Root-1, in a small loose evanescent tuft, 
3-6 in. long, f-Ll in. broad, mostly smooth or furry-pubescent 
beneath only on the nerves and midrib, shining full gr. flaccid 
soon withering and quickly disappearing altogether as the fl. 
advance. Fl. handsome, bright pale lavender-blue about an 
inch in diam., clustered in the axils of the forks and st.-l., ag- 
