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Seseli gummiferum. Gummy Meadow-. 

 Saxifrage. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Character. 



Umbelke globosae. Involucrum folio uno alterove. Fructus 

 ovatus striatus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Seseli gummiferum; involucellis monophyllis multifidis 



umbellulas aequantibus, foliis subtripinnatis glaucis : 



pinnulis cuneatis trifidis. 

 Seseli gummiferum ; involucellis polyphyllis : foliolis lan- 



ceolato-linearibus basi lato-connexis, flosculis subses- 



silibus, caule folioso, foliolis cuneiformibus. Sm. Exotic 



Bot. t. 120. 

 Seseli gummiferum ; involucellis polyphyllis basi connatis, 



foliis subtripinnatis glaucis. Poir. Encycl. suppl. 5 



p. 139. 



Sir James Smith has remarked that this species is nearly 

 related to Seseli Hippomarathrum ; and it seems to have a 

 still nearer affinity with Seseli dichotomum, a species pro- 

 bably not known to him at that time. Indeed it appears to 

 us, that these three species might with advantage be sepa- 

 rated from the genus Seseli, from the true species of which 

 they all differ in having a monophyllous calyx, or one in 

 which the leaflets are all broadly united at their base, 

 and perhaps also in the form of the seed, but whether this 

 is alike in all the three in question we have not had an 

 opportunity of examining. 



This plant was first found by Pallas in the Crimea, who 

 has repeatedly mentioned it, without giving any description 



or 



