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slender, spreading or ascending, fl. scarlet with a violet-purple 
eye. — A. arvensis a Bab. 269. A. arvensis Linn. ! Herb, and 
Sp. 211 : FI. Dan. t. 88; EB. t. 529; Pers. i. 173. no. 1 ; Ait. 
Ilort. Kew. ( ed. 2) i. 316; Buch 192. no. 159; Hook. FI. Scot, 
i. 72 ; Sm. E. FI. i. 280 ; Koch 668. A. phcenicea Lam. “ FI. 
Fr. 285,” Diet. iv. 335. no. 1, Illustr. 441. no. 1983, t. 101 ; 
Brot. i. 262 ; Spr. i. 570. A. mas Till. Dauph. ii. 461. — Mad. 
reg. 1, rr. Funchal about the Valle ; Machico about and above 
the E. Fort; at foot of sea-clifls, Campanario; P t0 da Cruz, 
ascent of the Penha d’Agua, N.W. side. Nov., Ma} r . — Pre- 
cisely the common English or European “Red Pimpernel;” 
nor in the Mad. pi. can the least difference be discovered be- 
tween it and var. y, except in the colour of the fl., the more 
nearly or quite equilaterally 4-angular st. and less distinctly 
subauriculate or cordate mostly narrower or smaller 1. 
fi. ccerulea Coss. et Germ. 1. c. ; Gren. et Godr. 1. c. ; like a, 
but fl. bl. or sometimes w. or lilac. — A. arvensis fi FI. Dan. t. 
1570; Bab. 269. A. ccerulea a Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. 5;” 
EB. t. 1823; Lam. Diet. iv. 336. no. 2, 111. 442. no. 1984; 
Brot. i. 262 ; Pers. 1. c. no. 2; Hook. 1. c. 72, 73 ; Sm. E. Fl. i. 
280, 281; Spr. i. 570; Koch 669. A.foemina Yill. 1. c. A. 
Munetti Linn. ! Herb, and Sp. PI. 211. — Mad. reg. 1, rrr. Corn- 
fields above the Brazen Head ; Campanario at foot of the sea- 
clifls at the port or Ilheo, mixed with a, with which it agrees 
in habit and size of fi. Apr., May. — Precisely the English or 
European “ Blue Pimpernel.” Pet. in the Mad. pi. as glandu- 
lose at the edges as in a, and not as Koch 1. c. says, eglandulose. 
Habit, st., 1. and fl. in size, and every thing except colour, as in 
c, but passing into y by imperceptible gradations and really 
nothing more than a depauperated state of it. 
y. latifolia Willk. et Lange 1. c. ; mostly altogether stouter 
or more robust and succulent and brachiately branched, with 
st. decussately broader or compressed alternately between the 
nodes, broader subauriculate or subcordate strongly 3-nerved 
1., and fl. rather larger and deeper or fuller bl. than usually in 
fi, with a deep rose-purple eve. — A. latifolia Linn. ! Herb, and 
Sp. 212 (fexcl. syn. Barr. t. 584) descr. opt. Lam. Diet. iv. 336. 
no. 3, 111. 442. no. 1985, Brot. i. 263 ; Pers. 1. c. no. 8 ; Ait. 
I. c. 317; Spr. 1. c. ; BM. t. 2389; DC. viii. 70. A. arvensis 
J. A. Selim. Fl. Yerd. 250 (excl. svn. plerisque). A. arvensis 
fi. ccerulea WB. iii. 172 (excl. syn. plerisque). A. ccerulea Chr. 
Sm. ! in Tuckey’s Voy. 252; AVebb Spic. Gorg. 169 (nec Schr. 
nec aliorum). A. Monelli var. Willmoreana BM. 3380 (status 
cult, valde luxurians). — Mad. and PS. reg. 1,2, c; GD. and 
SI), reg. 2, Roadsides, waste ground and borders of corn- 
fields about Funchal and elsewhere, general. Machico about 
and above the E. Fort intermixed with a, and at the Piedado ; 
