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49. CA1LPAXTTLACEJE, 
in Mad. from tlie sea to the tops of the highest peaks, Funchal, 
Machico, P t0 da Cruz, S. Vicente, &c. ; PS. in cornfields and 
by roadsides; GD. only on the highest peaks. March- July. — 
A low leafy mostly bushy dull dark gr. or greyish pi. 4-6 or 
8 in. high, with the aspect (as Villars has remarked) of some 
ann. Veronica ( V. agrestis or hederifolia or arvetisis L.) rather 
than of a Campanula. Hoot small white branched only down- 
wards. St. erect or diffuse simple below or with several 
ascending side-branches from the base, widely and regularly 
fork-branched upwards, the branches stiff but slender. L. ^-f 
in. long, the lower spathidate aad attenuated at the base into 
a petiole, the upper broader and shorter more or less obovate 
or oval and sessile, all deeply or coarsely and bluntly 3-6 or 
8-toothed. FI. small and inconspicuous numerous nearly ses- 
sile on very short ped. mostly solitary in the forks between 
2 1 ., rarely oppositifolious ; cor. -tube w. cylindric equal, lobes 
5 light bl. equal ovate obtuse reaching beyond those of the 
cal. which are lanceolate and suberect in fl., broader or tri- 
angular and spreading horizontally in fr. Caps, small nod- 
ding or turned to one side shallow-turbinate and flattened 
above, 3-celled, mostly indehiscent. Seeds small oblong sub- 
pellucid brown and shining. 
4. Musschia Dumort. 
1. M. aurea (L. fil.): 
Herb, stemless or subcaulescent, wholly smooth and shining ; 
1. in radical or terminal tufts elliptic or elliptic-oblong sometimes 
elongato-lanceolate, broadest in the middle equally pointed at 
each end, the lower attenuated at the base into distinct petioles, 
all coriaceous * very smooth and shining , finely and sharply sub- 
duplicato-serrulate, the uppermost or fl.-br. subentire ; fl. erect 
cymoso-paniculate, panicle terminal short triangular leafy can- 
delab riform, cymes 2-3- fid. at the ends of the spreading or 
declining side-branches or their subdivisions ; br. conspicuous 
leafy oblong -lanceolate) cal. coloured ', its lobes erect ovate as 
long as the short linear-lanceolate spreading or reflexed lobes of 
the cor. — I)C. vii. 405. Campanula aurea Linn. fil. 4 * * * * * * 11 Suppl. 
141 Lam. Diet. i. 590; Suppl. ii. 59; Pers. i. 192; Venten. 
Malm. 116; Ait. Ilort. Ivew. (ed. 2) i. 351 ; Buch ! 194. no. 
212 ; Dot. Reg. i. t. 57 ; Spr. Syst. i. 728. — Ilerb. per. Mad. reg. 1 
(sea-cliffs) chiefly, but running up ravines to reg. 3, r or £. 
Cliffs at the back of the Praia formosa near Funchal; “ S. 
Goncallo,” S r Moniz ; sea-cliffs all along the S. coast to the 
W. of Funchal here and there abundantly, and in the N. 
above l >,a Delgada. July-Sept. — Root thick fleshy striking 
deep into tin; fissures of perpendicular dry sunny rocks. St. 
originally none, but in the course of years the short fleshy 
