PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Pimpinella. 89 



equal, or very nearly so, inversely heart-shaped, with an 

 inflexed point. Filam. capillary, spreading, longer than 

 the corolla. Anth. roundish. Germ, inferior, ovate, a 

 little compressed, smooth, finely ribbed. Styles capillary, 

 somewhat spreading, short in the flower, afterwards as 

 long as the fruit, or longer ; tumid, and nearly globular, 

 at the base. Stigmas obtuse, somewhat capitate. Fl. 

 Recept. none. Fmit ovate, crowned with the long, ca- 

 pillary, slightly spreading, permanent styles. Seeds ovviie, 

 each with 5 rather sharp, not very prominent, ribs ; the 

 interstices convex. Juncture contracted, linear. 

 Perennial, rather harsh and rigid, herhs.^ with a very pun- 

 gent, slightly aromatic, flavour. Leaves usually pinnate, 

 oblong, with roundish, or finely cut, lecifets, excessively 

 various in their subdivisions. Umbels compound, droop- 

 ing when young. Bracteas none. Fl. white, or reddish. 



1. P. scLvifraga. Common Burnet-saxifrage. 



Leaves pinnate ; leaflets of the radical ones roundish ; of 

 the uppermost in various linear segments. 



P. saxifraga. Linn. Sp. PI. 378. Willd. u. 1. 1471. Fl. Br. 331. 

 E7igl.Bot.v.6.t.407. Mart. Rust. t.\27. Sibth. 102. Abbot68. 

 Hook. Scot. 95. Fl. Dan. t. 669. Jacq. Austr. t. 395. Spreng. 

 Spec. Umb. 1 15. 



P. saxifraga minor. Bauh. Pin. 160. Raii Si/n. 213. 



P. saxifraga minor;, foliis sanguisorbae. Raii Syn. 213. 



P. saxifraga vulgaris, pimpinellac minoris folio ; also minor foliis 

 dissectis. ]\Toris. v. 3. 285. sect. 9. t.b.f.G 8^ 7. 



P. minor. Corner. Epit. 776./. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 83 ; and P. me- 

 dia, t. 82. 



P. dissecta. Retz. Ohs.fasc. 3. 30. t. 2. Sibth. 102. Jbbot 68. 



Tragoselinum n. 786, 787. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 350. 



Bipinella, sive Saxifraga minor. Ger. Em. 1044./. 



In dry gravelly or chalky pastures. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root tough and woody, highly aromatic and pungent, not unplea- 

 sant. Stems from 1 to 2 feet high, solid, round, striated, downy, 

 branched, leafy. Leaves stalked, oblong, pinnate ; leajlets, of 

 the lowermost especially, ovate, veiny, deeply serrated and cut; 

 of the upper ones, and sometimes of all, simply or doubly pin- 

 natifid, with acute, spreading, decurrcnt segments ; nor are 

 these differences so constant as to mark even a distinct variety ; 

 they are all comprehended under the above synonyms. Umbels 

 of many general and partial smooth rays, drooping when young, 

 without any bracteas. Fl. white, small, as well as the seeds. 

 Tumid bases of the styles reddish. 



