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47. COMPOSITACE.E. 
vetv-tomentose pale hoary apple-gr. slightly viscous pi. about 
one foot high, thickly shortly aud stiffly or condensedly branched 
at top only, forming a compact or close thickly leafy cyme 
clammy with y. or fulvous sometimes blackish glandular spread- 
ing hairs, copious on the st., branches, br. or floral 1. and inv., 
but thinly sprinkled on the 1. Root strong hard sparingly 
branched tortuous. L. densely crowded or congested in a 
large thick radical tuft, like those of Matthiola maderensis 
Lowe and closely imbricate or thickly clothing also both the 
st. and cyme ; the lower 4 or 5 in. long, f-2 in. broad, mostly 
entire like the upper, but sometimes irregularly and more or 
less deeply sinuato-pinnatifid toothed or lobed, of a thick soft 
flaccid velvety substance, not elongate but broad comparative!}' 
with all the following varr. or forms of the sp., the lower 
broadly oblong, the upper 1-4 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, more or 
less broadly subovate or at least broadest or dilated and half- 
amplexicaul or subcordate at the base. Branches and ped. of 
the single terminal congested densely and conspicuously leafy 
cyme short thick robust, and, with the heads, densely fulvo- 
glandulose and woolly-tomentose. FI. in large robust semi- 
globose short-stalked agglomerate or congested Madia- lik; 
heads, 0-8 lines in diam. with short broad oblong straight- 
sided 5-toothed ligules, 0 or 7 mill, long, 3 or 4 broad, not 
above \ diam. of disk, altogether plain full golden-y. Outer 
scales of inv. linear-lanceolate herbaceous thickly tomentose 
and fulvo-glandulose, the inner chaffy naked. Ach. all pappi- 
ferous, about 1 mill, long and half as broad, elliptic-oblong 
truncate at top with the w. or pale mammillate epigynous disk 
encircled with a ring of minute w. denticles (bases of the de- 
ciduous pappus) and an outer coronet of strong black teeth 
formed by the prominent ends of the 10 strong abrupt ribs 
which are of a somewhat reddish dark brown and quite smooth 
like their black interstices. Pappus copious short scarcely so 
long as the inv.-scales, soft sessile very caducous pure w. 
simply rough or denticulate upwards, shortly ciliate or hairy 
downwards. Recept. thinly hairy-setose, chaffy at the margin 
with the naked eglandulous inner scales of the inv. — This 
pi., differing strikingly from other forms at first sight in its 
low dwarfish robust bushy leafy habit, large broad oblong or 
ovate thick almost fleshy 1., large globose crowded short-stalked 
fl. -heads congested on short robust thick ped. and branches 
into a close dense leafy cyme viscous with y. or fulvous or 
blackish copious glandular hairs, passes through subv. 2 by 
innumerable gradations or combinations of char, into the ordi- 
nary mountain states of var. fi. 
Subv. 2. aiif/iistifolia (“ Cravo de Gado ” PS.) ; like subv. 1, 
but 1. all lanceolate-acuminate. — A. varia /h angmtifolia IK\ 
