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long, distinctly tetragonal ribbed or striate scarcely rough or 
granulate, oblong, truncate at top, a little pointed at base, all 
equally setiferous. Pappus in all the ach. of more numerous 
(10-15) and rather longer pale brown bristly hairs than in T. 
nmbellata , the longer hairs being 2-3 times the length of the 
ach. and intermixed with vastly shorter minute and inconspi- 
cuous intermediate setules in the same row at their base. 
The protean variations of this pi. in foliage almost defy any 
definite division, and are often different at different seasons on 
the selfsame pi. They will be found however to fall tolerably 
under one or other of the 4 following heads : — 
a. multipda ; 1. flaccid finely laciniato-pinnatipartite or pin- 
natisect, laciniae linear-elongate remote entire. — Crepis sue- 
culenta a Sol. ! MSS. C. suc.culenta Buch ! 1. c. no. 230. C. te- 
nuifolia Sol. ! MSS. and BH. : Buch ! 1. c. no. 229 (not Willd., 
Pers.). Schmidtia anetkifolia Rclib. in Holl’s List 1. c. (with- 
out diagnosis). Crepis pectinata Lowe ! Prim. 24. Tolpis pec- 
tinata DC. ! 1. c. no. 9. Tolpis Jiliformis b. Schultz in WB. ii. 
399. no. 8 (not DC.). Hieracium fruticosum foliis tenuissime 
coronopi modo divisis, Sloane Catal. 123 ; Hist. Jam. 19, t. 5. 
ff. 1, 2. — Whole district of Funchal, from the sea-cliff's up to the 
Arribentao above the Mount, on Pico Grande and elsewhere 
up to 4000 ft. all along the S. coast from P w de S. Louren^o to 
P ta do Pargo, and occasionally also in the N., at Fayal, &c. 
Crepis tenuifolia Sol. ! and Buch ! is merely a finer-leaved 
autumnal state of Solander’s C. succidenta a MSS. (not BH.), 
exactly answering to my C. pectinata Prim. 1. c. 
/3. lie/ulata ; 1. flaccid pinnatifid or pinnatifidly toothed, la- 
ciniae short tooth-like not linear-elongate, mostly few remote 
irregular. — Crepis succulenta (3 Sol ! MSS. C. succulenta « 
ejusd.! scheda in BH. (not MSS.). Crepis crithmifolia Link 
ex Schultz in WB. 1. c. (not Tolpis crithmifolia DC. 1. c. no. 
11). Tolpis filiformis a. Schultz in WB. 1. c. no. 8 (not DC.). — 
Camacha, P t0 da Cruz at and all about the Serrado, Rib. de Fayal 
on the road to S ta Anna, &c., common in the N. up the ravines 
or remote from the sea from 500 to 3000 ft. In P t0 S t0 on rocky 
summit of Pico do Facho and on the promontory on the N. 
coast called u P ta de Guilherme ” or “ a Malhada.” 
Solander well distinguishing in his MSS. two varr. of his C. 
succulenta , viz .“a. fol. pinnatifidis laciniis linearibus distantibus,” 
and “ (3. fol. linearibus reinotis dentatis,” has wrongly inscribed 
u C. succulenta a. MSS. 7 ’ on a Mad. spec., “ Fr. Masson 1777, 7 ’ 
clearly belonging to his ,8. In all such cases the MS. or printed 
