PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. SIson. 61 



often pinnatifid. Umbels numerous, terminal, solitary, erect 

 when in flower, each of about 4 unequal rays, the middle one 

 shortest; partial ones aho of few and unequal rays. General 

 Bracteas from 2 to 4, lanceolate, small and slender ; partial four, 

 still smaller. Fl. cream-coloured, all nearly exactly regular, 

 and fertile. Cat. scarcely discernible. Pet. inversely heart- 

 shaped, with an incurved point. Fruit roundish-ovate, broad, 

 short, moderately compressed. Seeds half-ovate, each with 3 

 dorsal, not very prominent, ribs, at a distance from the border. 

 Nojloral receptacle is, at any period, visible, but the large glo- 

 bose bases of the strjles occupy all the sum.mit of the germen and 

 fruit; the styles themselves being very short, or hardly any, with 

 blunt, spreading, permanent stigmas. 

 The dry seeds are pungent and aromatic ; but in an early state 

 they have, like the whole herb, a peculiar nauseous scent when 

 bruised, resembling that of Bugs. 



2. S. segetuYii. Corn Honevvort. 



Leaves pinnate; leaflets roundish-ovate, numerous. Umbels 

 drooping, irregularly aggregate. Bases of the styles di- 

 lated, depressed. 



S. segetum. Linn. Sp. PL 362. Willd. v. 1. 1436. Fl. Br.3\Q. 



Engl. Bot. v.A. t. 228. Hook. Scot. 9 1 . Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 2. 



t. 134. 

 Slum n. 779. Hall. Hist. v. 1.340. 

 S. arvense, sive segetum. Rail Syn.2\\. 

 S. terrestre, umbellis rarioribus. Moris, v. 3. 283. sect. 9. t.5.f. 6. 



bad. 

 Sehnum Sii foliis. Goody er in Ger. Em. 1018./. not good. 



In rather moist fields, on a calcareous soil. 



About Mapledurham, Hants. Goodyer. At Bin ham, Norfolk. Mr. 

 Crowe. Near Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire. Mr. Hanhury. At 

 Walthamstow. Mr. Forster. Found by Dr. Walker, in the Scot- 

 tish island of Tirey (orTiree). Hooker. 



Annual, or often Biennial. August. 



Root tapering, small, very tough. Stems spreading in every di- 

 rection, \2 or 18 inches high, branched, round, striated, rushy, 

 somewhat leafy. Leaves chiefly radical, long, narrow, on long 

 footstalks; leapts 8 or 9 pair, besides the terminal one, which is 

 often 3-lobed', all sessile, ovate or heart-shajicd, smooth, serrated, 

 cut, and ])artly lobed, of a ])ale or greyisli green. General Um- 

 bels very imperfectly formed, with a few narrow, often very long, 

 general bracteas ; partial umbels irregularly asseml)led, drooping, 

 each of a few extremely unequal rays, with 1 or f) lanceolate, or 

 uwl-shaped, partial bracteas. Fl. regular, flesh-coloured, or 

 white. Cal of T) minute, blunt, permanent leaves, i'e/. ovate, 

 i^trongly involute. Styhn extremely short, each with a broad. 



