PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Pimpinella. 89 



equal, or very nearly so, inversely heart-shaped, with an 

 inflexed point. Filam. capillary, spreading, longer than 

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

 little compressed, smooth, finely ribbed. Styles capillary, 

 somewhat spreading, short in the flower, afterwards as 

 long as the fruit, or longer ; tumid, and nearly globular, 

 at the base. Stigmas obtuse, somewhat capitate. Fl. 

 Becept. none. Fruit ovate, crowned widi the long, ca- 

 pillary, slightly spreading, permanent styles. Seeds ovate, 

 each with 5 rather sharp, not very prominent, ribs ; the 

 interstices convex. Jnneture contracted, linear. 

 Perennial, rather harsh and rigid, herbs, with a very pun- 

 gent, slightly aromatic, flavour. Leaves usually pinnate, 

 oblong, wdtli roundish, or finely cut, leaflets, excessively 

 various in their subdivisions. Umbels compound, droop- 

 ing when young. Bracteas none. 7^7. white, or reddish. 



1. P. scLvifraga. Cominon Burnet-saxifrage. 

 Leaves pinnate ; leaflets of the radical ones roundish ; of 

 the uppermost in various linear segments. 



P. saxifraga. Linn. Sp. PL 378. fVillcl v.\.\47\. FL Br. 331 . 

 EngLBot. V. G. t. 407. Mart. Rust. t. 127. Slhth. 102. Abbot 68. 

 Hook. Scot. 9 :). FLl)an.t.G69. Jacq. Austr. t.SOo. Spreng. 

 Spec. Unib. 115. 



P. saxifraga minor. Bauh. Pin. ICO. Baii Sijn. 213. 



P. saxifraga minor, foliis sanguisorbai. Rail Syn. 213. 



P. saxifraga vulgaris, pimpincllae minoris folio 3 also minor foliis 

 dissectis. Moris, v. 3. 285. sect. 9. t. 5./. 6 8^7. 



P. minor. Camer. Epit. 77G.f' Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 83 5 and P. me- 

 dia, t. 82. 



P. dis.secta. Retz. Obs.fasc.^.^^. t.2. Sibth. \02. Abbot GS, 



Tragosclinum n. 7SG, 7S7. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 350. 



Bipinella, sive Saxifraga minor. Ger. Em. 101-1./. 



In dry gravelly or chalky pastures. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root tough and woody, highly aromatic and j)ungent, not unplea- 

 sant. Stems from 1 to 2 feet high, solid, round, striated, downy, 

 branched, leafy. Leaves stalked, ol)long, pinnate ; Icajtels, of 

 the lowermost especially, ovale, veiny, deeply serrated and cut j 

 of the upper ones, and sometimes of all, simply or doubly pin- 

 natifid, with acute, spreading, decurreiit segments ; nor are 

 these dilVerences so constant as to mark even a distinet variety ; 

 they are all comjirehended under the above synonyms. Cmbcls 

 of xnixny gentrnl and parl'uil smooth rays, drooping when young, 

 without any bracteas. I'L while, small, a> well as tlu- seeds. 

 Tumid basco of the styles reddish. 



