3d PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Sanicula. 



Perennial. Juli/, August. 



More bushy and slender, as well as more corymbose, and of a 

 paler green, than the foregoing. Radical leaves larger, often 

 triply pinnatifid, with decurrent lobes. Bracteas narrow, chan- 

 nelled, tapering, twice or thrice as long as the little globular 

 Jiowers. Scales of the receptacle lanceolate, undivided and en- 

 tire, with a simple spinous point. Pet. white or purplish, narrow, 

 sharply inflexed. 



137. SANICULA. Sanicle. 



Linn. Gen. 128. Juss. 225. Fl. Br. 291. Tourn. t. \73. Lam. 

 t.]9\. Gcertn.t. 20. 



Flowers separated ; the central ones barren ; marginal fer- 

 tile, without stamens. Cal. superior ; that of the barren 

 fl. small, 5-leavecl, acute; of the fertile larger, nearly- 

 equal, internally coloured. Pet. in the barren fl. 5, nearly- 

 equal, lanceolate, inflexed, channelled, compressed; in the 

 fertile either deciduous, or entirely wanting. Filam. ca- 

 pillary, spreading, twice as long as the petals. Anth, 

 roundish. Germ, inferior, roundish, bristly; wanting, or 

 scarcely perceptible, in the central fl. Styles 2, reflexed, 

 awl-shaped, about as long as the calyx, permanent. 5'//^- 

 mas obtuse. Fruit ovate, acute, destitute of ribs, densely 

 clothed with spreading, hooked bristles, and finally sepa- 

 rable into 2 seeds^ convex on the outer side, flat on the 

 inner: one of which, according to Gaertner, is often 

 abortive. 



Herbaceous, perennial, smooth. Leaves compound or lobed, 

 with bristle-pointed serratures. Umbels irregularly aggre- 

 gate, simple, many-flowered, dense, almost capitate, with 

 3-lobed general bracteas, and simple acute partial ones. 

 Fl. white, or reddish. 



1. S. eifropcea. Wood Sanicle. 



Radical leaves simple, deeply lobed. Flowers all nearly 



sessile. 

 S.europaea. Linn. Sp. PL 339. milden. v. \. 1366. Fl. Br. 29 \. 



E gl. Bot. V. 2. t. 98. Hook. Scot. 87. Fl. Dan. t. 283. Bull. 



Fr. t. 267. 

 S. n. 737. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 323. 

 Sanicula. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t.3l. 

 S. sive Diapensia. Raii Syn. 221. Ger. Em. 948./. 

 S. mas. Fuchs. Hist. 671. f. 

 Diapensia. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 80. / Matth. Valgr. v, 2, 366. /, 



Camer. Epit.763.f. 



