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47. COMPOSITACEJE. 
Diet. y. 348, 111. t. 653 ; DC. vii. 145 ; Coss. et Germ. a. offici- 
nale ii. 432. Leontodon Taraxacum Linn. Sp. 1122 ; Pers. ii. 
367 ; EB. t. 510 ; Hook. FI. Sc. i. 227 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 349 ; Bab. 
195 (excl. varr.). — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, r. Vineyards, 
roadsides and waste ground about Funchal, at the Valle, Mount 
&c. ; Magdalena in the Quintal of S r Nuno de Freitas e Lo- 
mellino ; Bib. do Fayal along the new Levada, &c. Oct.- 
June. — Precisely in every respect the common universal Bri- 
tish or European pi. ; and none of the other forms or allied sp. 
have ever occurred either in Mad. or the Canaries. Boot-stock a 
little tomentose or woolly at the crown. L. shining bright gr. 
mostly smooth, 2-4 or 5 in. long. Scapes 1-fld. fistulose pale 
often reddish 2-6 in. long. FI. bright golden-y. 1-14 in. in 
diam. produced in long succession. Heads in fr. with their 
elegant w. pappus globose 1-2 in. in diam., the ach. very 
caducous. 
Much used as a salad on the continent, but disregarded 
in Mad. 
Tribe XXIX. Lactucea Less. 
53. Lactuca L. 
1. L. Scariola L. 
St. erect tall stiff straight simple virgate paniculately shortly 
branched at top pale yellowish or straw-colour aculeato-strigose 
downwards, leafy about lialfw r ay up ; 1. not decurrent more or less 
glaucous runcinately sinuato-pinnatifid with the midrib beneath 
strongly fringed or ciliately aculeato-setose, the edges more 
finely spinelloso-denticulate ; the lower simply the upper sagit- 
tately semiamplexicaul and reduced above the middle of the st. 
to small inconspicuous entire sheathing lanceolate br. ; cymes 
few-fld. on short spreading side-branches towards the top of 
the st. forming a naked leafless oblong pyramidate panicle ; fi. 
small pale lemon-y. ; ach. black or dark coffee-brown striate 
shorter than their beak. — Linn. Sp. 1119 (excl. „varr.) ; Vill. 
Dauph. iii. 156; Brot. i. 315; Pers. ii. 364 (excl. varr.); FB. 
t. 268 (small depauperated) ; Sm. F. FI. iii. 346; DC. vii. 137 
(excl. varr.) ; Koch 495 ; Coss. et Germ. ii. 484 (excl. var. (i) ; 
Bab. 194; Gren. et Godr. ii. 319 (excl. var. (5) ; BEG. xix. 83, 
t. 70. ff. i. ii. ; Willk. et Lange ii. 238. Lactuca sylvestris Lam. 
Diet. iii. 406 (excl. var. fi) ; (i . coriacea Schultz in WB. ii. 422. 
— Herb. aim. Mad. reg. 3 and occasionally 2, £ ; GD. reg. 2, rr. 
Bavines and wooded banks, an odd pi. only here and there; 
liib. de S 1 " Luzia, ravine west of the Alegria, Vasco Gil near the 
bridge, Chestnut-woods above the Jardim da Serra, Pico Grande, 
