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47. compositace^:. 
authority must he preferred to that of Herb. spec, of sp., so 
often (as notedly in the Linn. Herb.) hastily or carelessly 
misnamed by their own authors. 
y. linearifolia ; 1. all simple undivided linear-elongate nearly 
or quite entire. — Crepis Jiliformis Sol. ! MSS. and BH. ; Ait. ! 
Hort. Kew. (ed. 1) iii. 128; Buch ! 1. c. no. 231. Tolpis Jili- 
formis DC. 1. c. no. 12 (not Schultz in WB.). — Summit of 
Pico d’Anna Ferreira, PS. One BH. spec, is inscribed u Mad. 
Fr. Masson 1776 j” the other u Hort. Kew.” The first of these 
BH. spec, is a stout robustly shrubby pi. with crowded or 
fascicled stiffly erect perfectly entire linear 1. 2-2^ lines long, 
1 mill, broad subobtuse or acute, the lower 1. wanting; the 
second differs only as a garden cult. spec, in being much more 
slender or attenuate. The PS. spec, have some of the lower 
1. remotely and sparingly pinnatifid-toothed, and might be per- 
haps more correctly considered to be fine-leaved forms of /3. 
They are in fact transitional between (3 and y. 
d. oblongifolia ; 1. all simple undivided lanceolate or oblong- 
oval, regularly repand-toothed, often very thick and fleshy. — 
Schmicltia fruticosa Mncli. Suppl. 218 ; Bchb. in Holl’s List 
1. c. Hieracium fruticosum Willd. Sp. iii. 1591 ; Pers. ii. 375 ; 
Poir. Suppl. ii. 564. Tolpis fruticosa u Schrank. pi. rar. h. monac. 
i. t. 46” (DC.) ; DC. 1. c. no. 8 ; Schultz in WB. 1. c. no. 9. — 
Sea-cliffs and rocks chiefly; Vista da Rocha do Navio at S ta 
Anna, at P ta Delgada, &c. ; top of N. Deserta near the landing 
place. Very different at first sight in foliage but assuredly a mere 
maritime form of the sp., nearly confined to the immediate 
neighbourhood of the sea and passing through /3 into u by num- 
berless gradations. L. varying from 1-1 £ in. long by in. 
wide and very thick and fleshy to 2 or 3 in. long and ^ in. wide. 
The milky juice often forms on the roots of this pi. elastic 
balls underground, from the size of a pea to that of a walnut, 
which answer the common cleansing purpose of a piece of 
india rubber and are sometimes so employed at P tn Delgada 
and elsewhere in the north. Hence tho name “ Visgo.” 
The Can. T. coronopifolia (Desf.) is a very distinct aim. sp. 
with much smaller heads or fi. and widely divaricate ped., not 
found in Mad. T. crithmifolia DC. seems to be some mixture 
of it with T. succulent a a or (3. As to Crepis crithmifolia Link, 
I have followed Schultz in WB. ii. 399 in referring it to his T. 
Jiliformis a, my T. succulenta (3 ; though at p. 404 lie says that 
Webb found it at Berlin to be identical with T. pcctinata, DC., 
my T. succulenta a. 
