UROSPERMTJU. 
537 
rather large about 4 in. in diam. rarely an inch, ventricose hard 
firm compact light gr. j the scales convex downwards combined 
and fleshy at the base, not pubescent velvety or tomentose, 
but more or less echinately hispid chiefly downwards, their 
edges dark purplish brown giving the inv. a striped appearance. 
Ach. at first y., then olive, lastly chestnut-brown, rather large 
and peculiar with their long curved hollow bulbous beaks, 
compressed, very coarsely and prominently muricato-corrugate 
or tuberculate transversely on the sides and with a cprious 
prominently 3-winged podogyne. Beak 3 or 4 times the length 
of the ach. shortly and erectly setuloso-hispid, corrugately 
muriculato-rugulose downwards. Pappus soft w. silky, about 
the length of the ach. with their beaks, copiously plumose, 
deciduous. 
(3. asperum DC. et Duby ; st. about 1-fld. dwarfish, 1. un- 
divided the upper entire. — DC. 1. c. ; Gren. et Godr. 1. c. ; 
BFG. 1. c. f. iii. Tragopogon asperum Linn. Sp. 1. c. no. 8; 
Lam. Diet. vi. 481 ; Pers. 1. c. no. 3. — Mad. reg. 1, J. Beds of 
Bavines about Funchal, Bib. de S ta Luzia, de S. Joao, &c. A 
mere dwarf depauperated state of the sp. 
The Azorian Microdei'is rigens (Ait.) has not occurred in 
Mad. to any botanist or collector, at least within the present 
centurv. There exists however in BH. a sheet containing two 
fine spec, of it, inscribed at the back “ Madeira Fr. Masson, 
1777.” Yet Solander in his MSS., describing from these very 
spec., and these alone, his “ Hypochceris strigosa MSS.,” adds 
“ Alfazim brava Incolis Azorum. Habitat in Insulis Azori- 
bus, Fr. Masson,” thus entirely ignoring or repudiating the 
habitat “ Madeira ” inscribed on the sheet itself. As-ain, he 
describes his Crepis rigens from a Kew-Garden spec, (it is pre- 
cisely the same pi.) on a sheet marked at the back “Hort. 
Kew. 1779,” stating in his MS., but on the authority merelv 
of information from the Kew Garden itself (as appears elsewhere 
in BII. documents), u Habitat in Madeira 2J. Fr. Masson. Flo- 
ruit in Ilorto Begio Kewensi, Julio 1779.” Yet he has added 
subsequently in pencil a ? after the word “ Madeira,” and sub- 
joined in pencil also “ Obs. nullum specimen siccum a Masson 
missum.” 
Now it is obvious to say that this ? and “Obs.” were added not 
in the face or in contradiction of “Madeira Fr. Masson 1777” 
on the original ex. of Solander’s Hyp. strigosa, but previously to 
his recognition of the identity of this latter with his Kew-Garden 
