Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...very small. Stylopod large conic. Styles very short erect. Gen. and partial inv. several ovate or ovate-lanceolate spreading or reflexed. Fr. large oblong-oval very pale brown with 3 sharp prominent entire dorsal ribs and plain flat interstices, apt to De infested with some larva that eat out the seed which when perfected is roundish oval and loose in the thick spongy or corky coat of the fr. The P" de S. Lourenco occasional state of the pi. with excessively thick hard and brittle less glaucous broader and shorter elliptic-oval or oblong lfts. only 2 or 3 times as long as broad, and often combined into a single broadly obcuneate 3-fid 1ft. (C. latifolium Buch; C. maritimum /3. Canariense (Cav.) DC, 11. cc.) is too accidental and even transient a form or young depauperated state to be properly reckoned a var., occurring only in arid spots on the N. seaclifls excessively exposed to the wind and weather. Crithtnum latifolium L. fll. = Astydamia canariensu DC. is a wholly different pi.; and although prettygeneral in the Canaries on the beach or sea-rocks, is not found in Madeira. The 1. and young st. simply boiled in vinegar are a favourite and indeed excellent pickle, esteemed by all classes in Madeira. Tribe III. Peucedanece. 10. Imperatoeia L. 1. I. OsTBUTHIUM L. Masterwort. L. biternate; lfts. of lower L broadly ovate, of upper lanceolate, the two side-lfts. strongly inequilateral, all sharply serrate, here and there lobed or incised; petioles long with large sheaths: general inv. 0.--Linn. Sp. PI. 371; EB. t. 1380; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 78; Buch 195. no. 290; Spr. Svst. i. 916; DC. iv. 183; Koch 336. Peucedamtm Ostruthium " Koch Umb. 95"; Bab. 147.--Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, 3, . Waterfalls and wet rocks in all the principal..."
