A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Islands of Porto Santo and the Desertas (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...or blood-red spot, mostly undivided but sometimes obcordate or subbifid; pedic. in fr. all erect.--S. gallica ss. Koch l. c. 8. anglica ss. Bab. l. c. S. quinquevulnera (L.) . t. 86; Desf. i. 348; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 292; DC. i. 372.--In drier, poorer or scantier soil, as on walls, &c. More hirsute in Madeira than a, with shorter often simple st. and equally dense many-flowered rac. y. anglica; less hirsute; st. spreading branched diffuse, fl. axillary or remote in leafy elongated rac., pet. often slightly cloven or obcordate, pedic. of lower fl. spreading or reflexed.--8. gallica y. Koch l. c. S. anglica a. Bab. l. c. S. anglica (L.) EB. t. 1178; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 291; DO. i. 371.--In moister richer soil or shady places, occasionally. 8. lusitanica L. (Desf., Brot.) and 8. gallica ss. Koch differ respectively from a and ss in having the fr. spreading or reflexed; whilst S. quinquevulnera EB. t. 86 (S. anglica ss. Bab.) differs from ss in its diffusely branched st. and lax leafy few-flowered rac. much as y (S. anglica L.) differs from a (S. gallica L.). But it would endless to define the multifarious forms of this very variable pl. dependent upon soil and situation. I have therefore abstained from making the Mad. pl. a and /3 distinct varr. 2. S. Nocturna L. Shortly and closely furry-pubescent; st. and branches quite erect rather tall; l. lanceolate, the upper linear, the lower spathulate and fringed or ciliate with long hairs at the base; r . terminal single elongate, fl. second alternate adpressed, cal. tubular cylindric-oblong 10-striate pubescent, the teeth short ovate, pet. small inconspicuous narrow bifid involute; caps. cylindric-elongate contracted at t