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47. COMFOSITACE-E. 
Nothing short of a long and careful comparative study of 
numerous examples on both sides would justify at present the 
union of the Madeiran pi. with the European A. sinuata and 
integrifoUa L. into one sp., — though certainly an Algerian spec, 
in Herb. Linn., inscribed by Linnaeus “ Andnjala sinuata ,” but 
with the numeral w 1 ” prefixed, viz. that of his A. integrifoUa 
Sp. PI. 1146, with wdiich it also best agrees in char., seems 
imdistinguishable from the Mad. P ta de S. Louren 90 A. chei- 
ranthifolia a, subv. 1. Desfontaines’s A. integrifoUa (FI. Atl. ii. 
236) with a branched st., loosely corymbose pale y. tl. and 
fuscous ach., growing “ in anus” is however very doubtful. 
2. A. CRITHMIFOLIA Ait. 
Root and rootstock per. or subper. frutescent woody ; st. ann. 
tall virgate with several elongate erect virgate side-branches, 
each like the main st. with a terminal cvme and rising corvm- 
bosely to the level of the main cyme, shortly or inconspicu- 
ously glandular-fulvescent upwards only, downwards like the 
foliage finely mealy-pubescent and pale greyish gr. or glau- 
cous ; 1. finely multifid or capillary-decompound 2-3-pinnati- 
partite, the divisions all subspathulately capillary or linear-fili- 
form elongate obtuse flaccid crowded intricate; cyme ample 
many-fld. spreading with long erecto-patent simple branches ; 
heads and fb small on very short ped. aggregate in small 
close terminal remote or distinct secondary cymes or clusters 
at the ends of the branches, the latter with the ped. and heads 
thickly but shortly fulvo-glnndulous ; ligules broad and short ; 
pappus w. 4 or 5 times the length of the black pale-ribbed ach. 
— Ait. ! Hort. Kew. iii. 120 ; Pers. ii. 377 ; Buch ! 194. no. 234 ; 
fSpr. iii. 663. — I lerbaceo-frutescent per. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. Sea- 
cliffs to the E. of Funchal at Sao Gon^allo, from a little be- 
yond the Louros or Lazaretto nearly all the way along the 
edge or top to the Garajao or Brazen Head abundantly; first 
found by the late Dr. Chas. Lemann in 1837, and recently by 
S r J. M. Moniz. May, June. — A very fine and well-marked 
sp., not less distinct in habit, stature, mode of growth and 
inflorescence than in foliage from every form of the prece- 
ding sp. Whole pi. pale bluish gr. canescent finely mealy 
rather than tomentose, fulvescent and shortly glandulous at 
top only. Rootstock frutescent woody, at least bienn. St. 
ann. 2-7 (mostly 5 or 6) ft. high and ^-1 in. in diam. at the 
base, hard firm and stiff’ hut fistulose and herbaceous, dying 
down after flowering annually quite to the base, copiously leafy 
throughout but very crowdedly and densely downwards, and 
with its numerous long simple slender side-branches and cyme 
