42 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Torilis. 



Broad Jagged Bur-parsley. Fet. H. Brit. t. 27./. 7 . 



In fields on a chalky soil, but rare. 



In Cambridgeshire not uncommon. 



Annual. July. 



Herbage rough, somewhat glaucous. Sttm taller, and less spread- 

 ing, than in the foregoing, about 3 feet high, beset with minute 

 ascending prickles. Leaves from 3 to 6 inches long, simply pin- 

 nate ; leaflets deeply pinnatifid, or strongly serrated, the upper 

 ones decurrent. Umbels lateral and terminal, on long, stout, 

 furrowed, rough, upright stalks, each umbel of from 2 to 4, 

 usually 3, long and firm rays ; the partial ones of many very 

 short rays, several of which in the centre bear barren, almost 

 regular J ^ou-'ers, and about 5 in the circumference produce per- 

 fect seeds. Bracteas, both general and partial, ovate, with a 

 broad, white, membranous margin. Cal. of 5 broad, short, 

 spreading, permanent leaves. Pet. bright pink, inversely heart- 

 shaped, the outermost, of the marginal prolific flowers, thrice as 

 large as the rest. Styles short and stout, moderately spreading, 

 slightly tumid at the base. Fruit beset with double rows of 

 straight, rigid, upright, rough, purplish bristles, and crowned 

 with the calyx and styles. 



One of the most strikinsr and handsome of its tribe. 



141. TORILIS. Hedge-parsley. 



Adans. Fam. 9f). Sjjreng. Prodr.24. Ga-rtn. v. \. 82. t. 20. f. 1, 2. 



Fl. all perfect and fertile, except from occasional abortion, 

 slightly irregular. Cal. superior, of 5 short, broad, acute, 

 permanent, nearly equal, leaves. Pet. nearly equal, in- 

 versely heart-shaped, witli an iiifiexed point, their lobes 

 equal. Filam. capillary, sprciiding, longer or shorter than 

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

 Fl. Recept. obsolete. S'ylcs av/i-shaped, somewhat spread- 

 ing, much shorter than the corolla, permanent, and sub- 

 sequently elongated, very tumid at the base. Stigmas 

 simple. '^ Fruit ovate, tumid, crowned with the spreading 

 styles. Seeds destitute of ribs, covered irregularly with 

 ascending, awl-shaped, shortish, rigid prickles, or partly 

 with blunt, prominent, crowded granulations ; the junc- 

 ture channelled, close. 



The generic name, which is Adanson's, may possibly be de- 

 rived from To^fKcy, to carve., or emboss, as I have hinted in 

 Rees's Cyclopaedia. 



Root annual. Herb rough, v/ith close rigid bristles. Stem 

 leafy, branched, furrowed. Leaves doubly pinnate, cut- 

 Umbels terminal or lateral, compound or simple, with 



