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which are figured quite as eroso-denticulate as in the Mad. pi. 
Indeed, not only A. latifolia L., but also A. Monelli and linifolia 
L. et Auct. and A. collina Schousb. seem to be merely casual or 
local aberrations from or cult, states of A. arvensis L. a supra. 
Not one of the characters usually assigned to them respectively 
is constant ; unless it should prove to be that of the lateral re- 
moteness (as in A. Monelli BM. t. 319 and Barr. t. 584), or im- 
bricating closeness (as especially in A. arvensis y supra), of the 
pet. 
Duby in DC. 1. c. rightly refers A. Monelli Herb. L. on Sweet’s 
authority to A. ai'vensis L. The spec, agrees entirely by its 
slender habit and pale bl. fl. with var. /3 supra. 
Tribe II. Samolere. 
2. Saitoltts L. 
Brook-weed. 
1. Samolus Yalerandi L. 
St. erect virgate leafy, branched chiefly upwards ; lower 1. 
rosulate spathulate obtuse stalked, upper more or less acute and 
subsessile ; fl. in simple or branched and subcompound erect ter- 
minal many-fld. finally elongated rac. ; ped. 1-fld. 1-bracteate 
at top, pedic. as long as or longer than the ped. ; cor. twice the 
length of the subacute broadly ovate sep. ; stam. included short, 
the barren as long as the fertile ; ov. lialf-adnate ; valves of 
caps, not reflexed at tip. — Linn. Sp. 243 ; Fl. Ban. 1. 198 ; Vill. 
Daupli. ii. 463; Lam. Diet. vi. 486, 111. i. 443. no. 1990, t. 101 ; 
Besf. i. 183 ; EB. t. 703; Brot. i. 28G; Pers. i. 171 ; Ait. II. K. 
(ed. 2) i. 365 ; Ilook. Fl. Sc. i. 80 ; Sm. E. Fl. i. 323 ; Spr. i. 
702 ; VVB. iii. 175; Koch 681 ; BC. viii. 73 ; Coss. et Germ. i. 
242; Gren. et Godr. ii. 468; Bab. 269; Willk. et Lange ii. 650. 
— Herb. per. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c. Moist dripping rocks, chiefly on 
the sea-cliffs all round the coast, but occasionally also in ravines 
of the interior. Sea-cliffs along the road from Bib. Brava to 
I na do Sol, beyond Callieta, at Paul do Mar above the waterfall, 
at S ta Anna, S. Vicente, &c. and descent into the Curral das 
Freiras (east side) &c. May-Sept. — Smooth shining bright gr., 
rarely subglaucescent. Boot short preemorse emitting numerous 
w. simple fibrous radicles. St. firm stiff, harder and more solid 
than in the British pi., about a fool high. L. l£-2 in. long, in. 
broad. Fl. small w. inconspicuous scentless. Ped. and pedic. 
