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ones stalked, largest, and most numerous. FL terminal, 

 blue or whitish, inodorous, encompassed by large, leafy, 

 pinnatifid, spinous hracteas^ longer than the ovate head. 



1. E. marithnmn. Sea Eryngo. Sea Holly. 



Radical leaves roundish, plaited, spinous. Heads stalked. 

 Scales of the receptacle three-cleft. 



E. niaritimum. Linn. Sp. Pl.337. fVilld. v. 3. \35S. Fl. Br. 288. 

 Engl. Bot.v. 10. ^ 718. Woodv. Med. Bot. t. 102. Hook. Scot. 87. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 875. Bauh. Pin. 38G. 



E, marinum. RaiiSyn. 222. Matth. f'algr. v. 2. 42. f. Camer. 

 Epit. 448./, Ger.Em.\\62.f. Dod. Pempt.730.f. Lob. Ic. 

 v.2.2l.f. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 86./. 



On the sandy sea shore. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Roots very long, creeping, cylindrical, whitish, of a pungent aro- 

 matic flavour, with a mixture of mucilage. Herb smooth, glau- 

 cous, with an elegant blue tint. Stem a foot high, round, 

 branched, leafy, furrowed. Leaves ribbed and veiny, bordered 

 with sharp spinous teeth ; the radical ones stalked, 3-lobed. Fl. 

 solitary, terminal, with broad pinnatifid bracteas. Petals bright 

 blue, erroneously drawn reflexed in Engl. Bot. 



The roots, reckoned stimulating and restorative, are either sold 

 candied, or administered in decoctions, variously prepared. 



2. E. camjKstre. Field Eryngo, 



Leaves clasping the stem ; radical ones twice or thrice pin- 

 natifid. Scales of the receptacle undivided. 



E. campestre. Linn. Sp. Pl.337. Willd.v.2. \358. Fl. Br. 289. 

 Engl.Bot.v.\.t.57. fVinch Guide v. \. 26. Jacq. Justr. t.155. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 554. Dod. Pempt. 730./. 



E. n. 735. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 322. 



E. vulgare. Raii Syn. 222. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 85./. 



E. mediterraneum. Ger. Em. 1 162./. 



E. montanum, sive campestre, Matth. Valgr.v.2.4\.f. Camer. 

 Epit. 447./. 



Eryngium. Fuchs. Hist. 296./. 



In waste ground, especially near the sea, but rare. 



On a rock which you descend from Plymouth to the ferry, going 

 to Cornwall. Ray. On the shore called Friar Goose, near 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Lawson. Also on St. Peter's quay, 

 Northumberland. Mr. Winch. By the old Roman way called 

 Watling-street, opposite Brookhall, near Daventry, as men- 

 tioned by Rav on the authority of Mr. Thornton. Rev. Mr. Wood. 

 Near the Devil's Point, at Stonehouse, Plymouth. Mr. Edward 

 Forster. 



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