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or runcinate, the lower mostly lyrate, upper irregularly laci- 
niate or sinuate-toothed auriculato-sessile or sagittato-ampiexi- 
eaul, uppermost reduced to narrow or linear auriculate entire 
bracts ; ped. mealy-puberulous and with a few black glands : 
scales of inv. mealy outside, the keel mostly fringed more or 
less with short conical capitate black glands or spinules, finely 
adpressedly silky- w. inside, outer lax unequal half or more 
than half the length of inner, erectly ascending (neither 
adpressed nor spreading) forming a short loose calyclej cymes 
loosely corymbose; fl. bright full golden-y. umbellate 2 or 3 
together on slender ped. at the ends of the branches; outer 
row of ligules with a broad red stripe beneath, stigmas pale 
dusky olivaceous ; ach. dark chestnut-brown muricately 10- 
ribbed, all attenuated into a long slender beak or pappus-stalk as 
long as or a little longer than themselves ; pappus very fine soft 
silky w. protruding half the length of the pericline beyond it 
in the nearly ripe anthodia. — Barhliausia lacinicita Prim. 25 ; 
DC. ! vii. 154. Crepis intybacea Brot. Pliyt. Lus. fasc. i. ed. 1 
(1801) no. 12; ed. 2 (1816) i. 57, t. 26; ejusd. Fl. Lus. i. 321 
(at least partly) P C. Dioscoridis and C. biennis Bucli ! 194. nos. 
22 5 and 232 (not Linn.). B. taraxacifolia y DC. 1. c. (quoad 
saltern syn. Brot.) ? — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, ccc. Vine- 
yards and cult, ground, banks and roadsides everywhere most 
abundant about Funchal, the Mount, Corral das Freiras, P L0 
da Cruz. Anna, S. Vicente, &c. GD. r eg. 2, r. Not seen 
in PS., ND., or SD. Jan.-June, and chiefly March, April, 
but here and there at most seasons. — Varr. : — 
a. pinnatijida Prim. 26 ; DC. 1. c. ; 1. and br. irregularly laci- 
niato-pinnatifid, the lower 1. runcinato-lyrate. — C. biennis Sol. ! 
in BH. quoad spec. Mad. Masson (not Linn.) ; Bucli ! 194. 
no. 232. C. Dioscoridis var. cor. undique lutea Sol. ! in BIL 
quoad spec. Mad. Masson (not Linn.) ; Bucli ! 194. no. 225 
(' partly). — About Funchal at P t0 da Cruz, &c. 
/3. integrifolia Prim. 26; DC. 1. c. ; dwarfish ; 1. and br. all un- 
divided, runcinately or repandly toothed, the lower hispid or stri- 
gulose on the midrib nerves and edges beneath, the upper or st.-l. 
quite smooth. — C. Dioscoridis var. foliis margine nudis Sol. ! in 
BH. quoad spec. Mad. Masson (not Linn.) ; Bucli ! 1. c. no. 225 
(partly). — Mad. with a, but less common. GD. reg. 2, r. 
Root simple tapshaped always ann. PI. 1-3 or 4 ft. high 
somewhat succulent nearly or quite smooth and of a fresh 
bright shining mostly full dark gr., the 1. often with a bright 
red or purple midrib. St. single stout solid erect, in « 1 1-3 or 
4 ft., in (3 6-12 or 15 in. high, erectly but remotely fork- 
branched from the base throughout upwards, hard stiff smooth 
or very obscurely and irregularly minutely puberulous or glan- 
