104 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Tordylium. 



versely heart-shaped, with an inflexed point ; the inner 

 one smallest, with equal lobes, the two next with very 

 unequal lobes, and the outermost with very large equal 

 ones ; or the three innermost have nearly equal, and the 

 *Z outermost extremely unequal, lobes, the largest one of 

 each coming together. Fllam. thread-shaped, spreading, 

 as long as the smaller petals, often wanting in the radiant 

 flowers. Anth. roundish. Germ, inferior, ovate, rugged 

 or bristly, transversely compressed. Styles thread-shaped, 

 erect, swelling at the base, subsequently spreading, de- 

 ciduous ; wanting in the central flowers. Stigmas simple. 

 Fl. Hecept. none. Fncit almost orbicular, compressed 

 transversely, crowned with the tumid bases of the styles. 

 Seeds of the same form, nearly flat in the disk, scarcely 

 ribbed or striated, sometimes rough or bristly ; the bor- 

 der tumid, wrinkled or crenate, bristly or naked. Junc- 

 ture flat, close, broad, including part of the border. 

 Roughish, annual herbs; with pinnate, broad, notched 

 leaves, and compound umbels of handsome, radiant, white 

 or reddish. Jlovoers. Bracteas linear, both general and 

 partial ; the latter unequal. 



t 1. T. ojfic'inale. Small Hart-wort. 



Partial bracteas about as long as tiie flowers. Leaflets 

 ovate, cut, crenate. Radiant petals in pairs, with veiy 

 imequal lobes. 



T. officinale. Linn. Sp. PI. 34b. mild. v.\. 1381. Fl. Br. 204. 



Engl. Bot. v.2,4. <.2440. Fl. Grcec. w.3. 60. t. 267. Tr. of Linn. 



■Soc.y. 12.347. 

 T. sive Seseli cieticum minus. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 102. 

 T. narbonense minus. Tourn. List. 320. Dill, in Rati Syn. 206 ; 



with an erroneous place of growth. 

 T. apulum minimum. Column. Ecphr. 122. t. 124,/. 1, Moris. 



v.3.3l6.sect.9. t. 16./. 6. 

 T, Dodonsei. Dalech. Hist. 75 1 ./. 

 Seseli creticum, sive Tordylium. Dad. Pempt. 313,/. 314. Lob. 



Ic.736.f. 

 S. creticum minus. BauJi. Pin. 16] . Ger. Em. 1050. f. 

 Caucalis minor, pulchro semine, sive Bellonii, Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 



p. 2. 84. /. 

 Small Hart-wort. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24. f. 6. 



In cultivated fields, but very rare ; possibly never seen at all in 

 England, the following having been confounded with it. 



Found by Mr. Doody about Isleworth, Ray. About London, Pc- 

 tiver. 



