PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Crithmum. 73 



and styles. Seeds elliptic-oblong, convex, with a thick 

 coriaceous coat, each having 5 tumid, somewhat wrinkled, 

 equidistant ribs, 2 of them marginal ; the interstices nar- 

 row, flat. 



Perennial, somewhat fleshy, herbs. Leaves repeatedly ter- 

 nate, with thick, acute, linear or lanceolate, entire leaflets. 

 Umbels terminal, stalked, compound, many-rayed, with 

 several, general and partial, bracteas. Fl. white. 



Our British Crithmum^ together with Cachrys Libanotis of 

 Linnaeus, which is unquestionably of the same genus, 

 constitutes the 2d section of Professor Sprengel's Cachrys. 

 I think they are best kept separate, whatever may become 

 o^ Cachrys siciila^ Linn, figured in Fl. Grcec. t. 278, which 

 is nearly allied to them in genus, but the Jloxcers are yel- 

 low, an important circumstance as to habit, and the seeds 

 have very remarkably toothed wings. This fine plant 

 ought perhaps to form a genus. The corky, smooth, 

 turgid Jruit of a real Cachrys is essentially diflcrent from 

 it, as well as from our Crithmum ; and I believe other 

 marks of distinction will be found in \\\e Jlo^ers. The 

 styles are long and slender, with a broad depressed base; 

 the calyx scarcely any ; many of the j^Ooyt'rs imperfect, or 

 abortive. The woolly seeds of some ought not, perhaps, 

 to cause a generic separation ; but I do not presume here 

 to decide this point, which does not concern the British 

 Flora. 



1. C. marit'imum. Sea Sam})lre. 

 Leaflets lanceolate, fleshy. Bracteas ovate. 



C. maritimum. Li/m. % P/. 35 1. fri/W. r. 1 . 1408. F/. i?;. 306. 



l\n^]. Bot. f. 12. ^819. Dicks. 11. Sice. fuse. 12. Ifi. Hoofc. 



Scot. 81). Jacq. Ilort. Vind. v. 2. 88. t. 187. 

 C. inarinum. Had Syn. 217. Ger. Em. 53'.]./. 

 C. primum. Matth. Vidgr. v. 1. 4-14./. Ccnncr. F.pit. 272. f. 

 C. multis, sive Fcjcniculum maiinum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 194./. 



nioris. V.3. 289. sect. 9. t. l.f. 1 . 

 Foeniculum marinum, sive Empetrum, uut Calcifiaga. Loh. Ic. 



392. /: 

 Ciethainus. Cord. Hist. 201. J. 

 Creta marina. Lonic. Kreutcrh. 271. C./. 

 Sampirc. Pet. H. Brit. ^ 24./. 8. 

 On rocky sea shores and clifls, 

 PenMinial. Aw^ust. 

 Root branched, creeping extcMisivcly. Herb glaucon.s, smooth, 



fleshy, ^alt and pungcntly aromatic in flavour. Stuns about a 



