PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Echinophora, 57 

 Sideritis tertia Dioscoridis. Column, Phytob. 71. t.72. ed.2. 59. 



In woods and groves abundantly. 



Perennial. May. 



Root of numerous, black, tufted, rather fleshy fibres. 5#em5 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 j 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. Juss.225. H.Br. 293. Tourn.t. 423. Lam. t. \90. 

 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 j^etals, 

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

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

 renceabortive ; 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. 

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

 nuich branched, leafy. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, with 

 acute or spinous segments. Umbels com])ound, terminal, 

 with s})inou.s-pointed, general and partial, hracteas, the 

 hitter finally confluent and hardened. F)uit globose, va- 

 riously armed. 



tl. Ya. sjnnosa. Sea Prickly-Sampire. SeaParsnep. 



Leaves with spinous, awl-shaped, entire segments. 



E. spinosa. Linn. Sp. PL 3AA. fHlUi. v. 1. 1370. 11. Br. 293 



