ANDRYALA. 
pinnae or laciniae narrow-ligulate or loriform elongate acute 
often here and there again toothed or divided, the rachis narrow 
linear not broader than the pinnae. — A. varia y. chcironthi folia , 
subv. 2. crithmifolia Lowe in litt. et MSS. olim (1831-2). A. 
varia crithmifolia IJC. ! 1. c. (excl. syn. Ait.). A. crithmi- 
folia Novit. 1. c. (not Ait.). — Mad. in one or two spots only; 
sea-cliffs at P ta do Sol at the E. end of the beach, and at 
Magdalena on the tunnelled part of the sea-cliff road, to the 
westward beyond the Port. May-Oct. — In foliage this re- 
sembles the more finely divided-leaved states of Plantago Co- 
ronopus L. (as figured in EB. t. 892), or Artemisia argentea 
Herit. or A. gaUica Willd. (A. maritima EB. t. 1001), and 
thus so far resembles also very nearly A. crithmifolia Ait. ; for 
which, indeed, till recently mistaking it, I sent it as amerevar. 
of A. cheiranthifolia or varia in 1832 to the late Chev. Be 
Candolle. It is however merely an extreme maritime form of 
subv. 2 with more divided tomentose canescent h, but not pre- 
senting the other peculiar characters of the true A. crithmi- 
folia Ait. 
Compared as a whole with a. congesta , /3. sparsiflora varies in 
all its forms or subvarr. like oc in being more or less thinly 
mealy-tomentose i. e. greenish-naked or softly snowy-tomen- 
tose. It is a taller less robust or dwarfish pi., with an open 
free-branched ample lax or spreading cyme, and altogether 
less leafy than a, with the st.-l. more remote and those of 
the cyme narrow small remote and inconspicuous or reduced 
to mere bracts. Lacinke of 1. 2-2 rachis 2-3 mill, broad. 
St. about 2 ft. or from 1 to 3 feet high, tomentose but with- 
out fulvous glandulous hairs like all the 1. and br. except quite 
the uppermost. Heads smaller (4-5 lines in diam.), but th 
larger in diam. with longer narrower looser and more spread- 
ing ligules (7 or 8 mill, long, 2-3 broad) than in a. Scales 
of inv. fewer or more remote and distinct; in fr. not longer 
or a little shorter than the dirty-yellowish pappus. 
A. cheiranthifolia, thus constituted after many years’ observa- 
tion, is assuredly one of the most variable of pi. Like Schultz 
in WB. ii. 414-418 in the case of his Can. A. pinnatijida, I 
can find no constancy in either the degree of pubescence or of 
decomposition or division of the 1. taken apart. But combined 
with differences of habit, port, or stature, lax or congested in- 
florescence, size of heads, See., each of these characters in turn 
helps to distinguish the foregoing subvarr. or forms. Com- 
bined or apart however, none of them possess stability 
enough to warrant the separation of even my own A. robust a 
as a sp. 
