PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Echinophora. 37 



Sideritis tertia Dioscoridis. Column. Phytob. 71. t. 72. ed. 2.' 

 t.\6. 



In woods and groves abundantly. 



Perennial. 3Iay. 



Root of numerous, black, tufted, rather fleshy fibres. Stems ascend- 

 ing, about a foot long, some much shorter; furrowed, slightly 

 branched alternately. Leaves chiefly radical, stalked, with 3 

 very deep, 3 -cleft, jagged and serrated lobes ; those of the stem 

 alternate, nearly sessile ; all of a deep shining green, veiny. 

 Umbels numerous, capitate, in an irregular, twice compound, 

 partly umbellate, panicle. Fl. cream-coloured, with an occa- 

 sional stain of red ; the barren ones, in the middle of each um- 

 bel, most numerous. 



The herb is bitter, with an acrid, somewhat aromatic, pungency. 

 Its vulnerary qualities are no longer believed, 



138. ECHINOPHORA. Prickly-Sampire. 



Linn. Gen. \29. Jiiss.22o. n.Br.293. Tourn,tA23. Lam.t.190. 



Fl. separated; those of the circumference numerous, barren; 

 the outermost irregular, often neuter; central solitary, 

 fertile. Cal. superior, of 5, nearly equal, spinous-pointed, 

 rigid, permanent leaves. Pet. in the outermost flowers 

 unequal, each unequally heart-shaped, from the strong 

 inflexion of the jagged point ; in the rest of the barren 

 ones equal, inflexed ; in the central one wanting. Filam. 

 in the fl. of the circumference only, longer than the petals, 

 thread-shaped, inflexed, equal. Antli. of 2 roundish lobes. 

 Germ, inferior, turbinate, in the fl. of the circumfe- 

 rence abortive ; in the central one imbedded in the base 

 of the flower. Styles erect, somewhat unequal; in the 

 central fl. longest, awl-shaped, a little recurved, perma- 

 nent. Stigmas obtuse. Fruit ovate, imbedded in the 

 enlarged receptacle, constituting a hardened prickly coat. 

 Seed solitary, ovate-oblong. 



Plerbage very rigid, somewhat downy. Stem round, furrowed, 

 much branched, leafy. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, with 

 acute or spinous segments. Umbels compound, terminal, 

 with spinous-pointed, general and partial, bracteas, the 

 latter finally confluent and hardened. Fruit globose, va- 

 riously armed. 



tl. ^. spijiosa. Sea Prickly-Sampire. Sea Parsnep. 



Leaves with spinous, awl-shaped, entire segments. 



E. spinosa. Linn. Sp. PI. MA. M'illd. v. ]. 1379. Fl. Br. 293. 



