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47. COMPOSITACEiE. 
cornfields, vineyards and waste ground amongst them, by road- 
sides &c. everywhere. About Funchal, Loo-fields, S. Mar- 
tinlio, the Mount, Calheta, Prazeres, P ta de S. Louren 9 o, S. 
Vicente, &c. March-Sept. — A somewhat coarse robust succu- 
lent dull dark sometimes leaden or greyish gr. coarsely strigose 
almost or quite hispid-spinulose often prickly herb. St. 1-2 ft. 
high, erect stout ribbed or channelled, widely dichotomously 
branched, thick gr. succulent hispid. L. stiff shining hispid 
and pustulato-spinellose. FI. rather small or inconspicuous, 
•§-f in. in diam., golden-y., the ligules red outside. Inner inv. 
10-angular ventricose as in Sonchus , its scales with broad pale 
membranous smooth edges and with the dark gr. hirtose mid- 
rib excurrent below the tip into a pectinately hirtose awn. 
Ach. oblong subangular very finely and closely circularly cor- 
rugato-striolate, plump upwards and abruptly pointed or sud- 
denly contracted at top into the tine slender filiform pappus- 
stalk, dark or light chestnut-brown, scarcely 3 mill, long or 1 
broad. Pappus soft pure w. a little longer than the inv., its 
stalk longer than the ach. 
The figures in EB. and RFG. 11. cc. represent two opposite 
extreme states of the pi. 
f49. Urospermum Scop. 
fl. U. PICROIDES (L.). 
Ann. ; 1. more or less lyrate and runcinato-pinnatifid, some- 
times undivided, spinelloso-denticulate or entire, the lowest 
oblong petiolate, the st.-l. auriculato-ainplexicaul ; heads echi- 
nulato-hispid chiefly at the base, smooth upwards, the scales 
ovato-lanceolate, more or less setosely hispid, not velvety- 
pubescent; ach. shortly stipitate, their beak abruptly swollen 
or bulbous at the base. — Spr. iii. 662; DC. vii. 116; WB. ii. 
466; Koch 485; Seub. Fl. Az. 33; Gren. et Godr. ii. 305; 
IiFG. xix. 12, t. 26. ff. ii. iii. ; Willk. et Lange ii. 221. Tra- 
gopoyon picroides Linn. Sp. 1111. no. 7 ; Vill. Dauph. iii. 72 ; 
Lam. Diet. vi. 480; 111. t. 646. f. 3; Brot. i. 330. Amopoyon 
picroide8 Pers. ii. 360. no 2. — Ilerb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, cc ; PS. 
reg. 2, 3, cc ; GD. reg. 2, c ; SI), reg. 2, r. Waste ground, 
roadsides, beds of ravines See., almost everywhere in sunny 
5 laces. About Funchal to the east and west, &c. March- 
uno chiefly. — A low herbaceous pi. with light gr. harsh stiff 
hispid almost prickly foliage, very variable in degree of both 
hispidity and subdivision, intermediate in habit between that of 
Hclminthia echioide 8 and Sonchus oleraceus L. St. straight 
erect stiff virgate, 3 or 4-12 in. high, few- (mostly 1-3 or 4-) 
fid. Fl. rather larger than in S. oleraceus L., bright lemon-y., 
closing about noon, on stout erect straight naked ped. Heads 
