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50. VACCIXIACEJE. 
whole mountain-tracts a remarkable and striking aspect. Vast 
quantities of the root-stocks, or st. cut up from the roots, are 
brought down daily into Funchal and all the Tillages of the 
island for fuel or brush -wood; and the taller st., 8-10 ft. long 
or more, are now much used as rods or poles ( varas ) for 
French Beans ( Feijoens ) Phase olus vulgaris L., in default of 
the more durable Heatli-poles which are yearly becoming 
scarcer. The fr. is also in much request for making a conserve 
or jelly, being a favourite and wholesome remedy in colds or 
coughs, and, mixed with sugar and water, making a pleasant 
cooling and refreshing drink. 
Professor Ileer in his fossil Plants of S. Jorge, p. 30, t. ii. 
if. 15, 1G, represents two 1. of this pi. And I do not see in 
what respect his figures of Ilex Hartungi p. 31, t. ii. ff. 23, 24 
(especially f. 24) differ from large young 1. on luxuriant barren 
shoots of the same. 
Though included by Seubert (after DC. on Guthnick’s au- 
thority) in his FI. Azorica at p. 41, Mr. Hewett Watson be- 
lieves that the true V. maderense has not been really found in 
any of the Azorian islands, as it assuredly has not in the Cana- 
rian. The Adrian pi. of which Seubert (FI. Az. 41) makes im- 
properly as Mr. Watson thinks two sp., V. longijloi'um Wickst. 
(DC. vii. 573) and V. cylindraceum Sm. (DC. vii. 571), with a 
cylindric cor. 2-3 times the length of the cal. and twice as 
long as broad, is indeed very closely allied to the Madeiran, 
but yet seems, from living spec, kindly communicated by Mr. 
Watson, really distinct. In these the petioles and midrib be- 
neath are quite smooth ; but perhaps no reliance can be placed 
on this, for Seubert 1. c. describes the 1. as “ subtus ad basin 
tantum subpubescentia.” The 1. are certainly no more pro- 
perly caducous in the Adrian than in the Mad. pi. 
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