W2 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Heracleum. 



what elongated ; broad and pyramidal at the base. Stig- 

 mas obtuse, notched. Floral Recept. undulated, cre- 

 nate, obtuse, a little broader than the bases of the styles, 

 to which it is united. Fruit inversely heart-shaped, 

 somewhat elliptical, compressed transversely, nearly flat, 

 crowned with the fi. recept. and styles. Seeds of the 

 same form, deeply notched at the summit, more or less 

 evidently at the base; flat in the disk, with 3 slender 

 dorsal ribs, and 2 distant marginal ones, the interstices 

 occupied, in their upper half, by 4 intermediate, coloured, 

 slightly channelled, parallel lines ; border narrow, some- 

 what tumid, smooth, even and entire ; inner surface flat 

 and even, with a pair of obtuse coloured lines, extending 

 from near the summit to the middle. Juncture close, flat, 

 parallel to the seeds, and nearly as broad. 

 Robust perennial or biennial plants, hairy or roughish, aro- 

 matic with some sweetness ; their stems hollow, furrowed ; 

 their leaves variously pinnate, with broadish, jagged, ser- 

 rated, often decurrent and radiating, leaflets. Umbels 

 large, broad and flat. General bracteas deciduous, or 

 wanting ; partial lanceolate, taper-pointed. Fl. large, 

 numerous, white or reddish. Seeds straw-coloured, with 

 brown lines. 



1. \i. Sphondyliwn. Common Cow-parsnep. Hog- 

 weed. 

 Leaves pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, cut and serrated. 



H. Spliondylium. Linn. Sp. PL 358. Willd.v.l. ] 42] . FI.Br.307. 



Engl. Bot. V. 14. t. 939. Hook. Scot. 89. Ehrh. PL Of. 383. 



Spreng. Prodr. 12. Spec. Umb.4l. 

 Sphondylium. Raii Syn. 205. Ger. Em. \009.f. Matth. Valgr. 



r.2.147./. Camer.Epit. 548./. Dod.Pempt.3Q7 .f. Riv. Pen- 

 tap. Irr. t. 4. 

 S. n. 809. HalL HisL v. 1. 360. 

 S, vulgare hirsutum. Bauh. Pin. 157. Moris, y. 3.313. sect. 9. 



t.\6.f.l. 

 Acanthus germanica. Fuchs. Hist. 53. f. 

 Cow Parsnep. PeL H. Brit. t. 24. f. 1. 

 jS. Huds. 117. With. 296. var. 2. Relh. 1 12. 

 Heracleum angustifolium. FLBr.307- AbbotGl. Jacq.Enum. 45. 



217. t. 2. Austr. V. 2. 46. t. 173. Not of Linnaeus. 

 Sphondylium majus aliud, laciniatis foliis. Raii Syn. 205, 

 S. hirsutum, foliis angustioribus. Bauh. Pin. 157. Prodr. 83. 

 S. hirsutum minus, foliis tenuiter laciniatis, semine lato. Pluh. 



Jlmag. 355. PhyL t.63.f. 3. 



