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47 . COMPOSITACE.E. 
upper part of 2, cc. Wet perpendicular rocks in almost all the 
principal ravines ; e. g. Rib. cle S ta Luzia near the Waterfall, 
R. Frio, R. da Metade, de S. Jorge, da Boa Ventura, &c., at 
Camacha, S. Ant 0 da Serra &c. June, July. — Almost subar- 
borescent and gigantic in all its parts, being from 4 or 5 to 10 
or 12 ft. high with a trunk often as thick as the arm (2-4 in. 
in diam.) and the ultimate branches as thick as the forefinger 
ending in a large spreading or radiating tuft or rose of shining 
full grass-gr. 1. 10-30 in. long and 2-6 broad, broadly lobed 
with 5 or 6 mostly rounded lobes and sinuses on each side like 
oak-1. ( Quercus Robur L.) and a large triangular pointed ter- 
minal lobe longer than broad. Sometimes the side-lobes are 
subacute or angular, and the quite young 1. are always w. or 
hoary with a short thick furfuraceo-cottony tomentum soon 
disappearing. Cyme very large 1-2 ft. broad and high many-fld. 
with long pendulous or horizontal narrow leafy bracts at each of 
its divisions, auriculate or caudate at their base ; each branch 
or division ending in an umbel of mostly 3 or 5 fl., round erect 
stiff naked. Red. about 3 in. long erect round slender, naked 
below, thickened and furnished upwards with a few scattered 
reflexed linear waved entire leafy br. Fl. like those of the 
common Dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale Wigg.) but very 
large, 2-3 in. in diam. bright golden y., nearly or quite scent- 
less. Anthod. remarkably squarrose, the outer scales with re- 
flexed leafy gr. points, the inner dark olive-black as if bronzed 
upwards. Ach. as in 8. pinnatus but with 3 strong distinct 
ribs on each fiat side and pappus much longer and more 
copious. 
I have cultivated this fine pi. for many years in England. 
All it requires is protection in the house or greenhouse from 
severe frost during the winter months. Planted out in May 
or June it flourishes till late in the Autumn, flowering abun- 
dantly in August, and rendered by its large and handsome fo- 
liage at all times a striking ornamental plant. 
Tribe XXX. Crepidece Bischoff. 
55. Crepis L. 
Sect. 1. Barkhauxia Much. Ach. all or those at least of disk 
distinctly beaked. 
1. C. lac i mat a Lowe. Letubra mama. Almeirao or Al- 
meirante. 
Ann. nearly or quite smooth shining bright full gr. ; st. erect 
leafy sparingly corymbosely fork-branched from the base or 
crown : 1. smooth shining full or dark gr., laciniato-pinnatifid 
