PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bupleurum. 93 



Fl. Recept. none, unless the dilated margin of tjie tumid 

 bases of the styles may be taken for such. Fruit ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, solid, a little compressed, crowned with the 

 very short permanent styles. Seeds somewhat cylindrical, 

 each with 5, prominent, acute, or slightly bordered, ribs ; 

 the interstices flat, either smooth, granulated, or irregu- 

 larly wrinkled ; the summit of each rib abrupt, or angular. 

 Juncture narrower than the seeds. 

 Smooth, rigid, branched, leafy, either herbaceous or shrub- 

 by. Leaves firm, all simple, alternate, undivided and 

 entire. Umbels compound, or simple, often irregular. 

 Bracteas sometimes general, always partial ; the latter 

 usually 5, large and conspicuous, longer than the partial 

 umbels. Fl. yellow. Qiialities slightly aromatic, rather 

 acrid. 



1. B. rotundifolium. Common Hare's-ear. Thorovv- 



wax. 

 General bracteas wanting. Leaves perfoliate. 



B.rotundifolium. Linn. Sp. PL 3-10. mild. v. 1. 13G9. F/. Dr. 292. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 99. Ehrh. PL Off. 1G2. 



B. n. 767. Hall. Hist. V. 1.312. 



B. perfoliutum lotundifolium annuiim. Tourn. Inst. 310. Pud 

 Sim. 22\. 



Perfoliata. 3/a<i/t. F«/o-r. i;. 2. 499./. Camer. Epif. SSS.f. DocL 

 Pempt. 104./. Piv. Pentap. Irr. t. 46. 



P. vulgaris. Ger. Em.DSG.f. Moris, v. 3. 299. sect. 9. t. 12./ 1. 



P. vulgatissima, sive arvcnsis. Bauh. Pin. 277. 



Pcrfoliatum vulgatius, flore lutco, folio umbilicato. Loh. ic. 39G./. 



In corn-fields, especially on a chalky soil. 



Annual. July. 



Root rather small, tapering. Stem erect, round, leafy, branched 

 alternately in the upper part, and somewhat corymbose. Emve^ 

 all perfoliate in a remarkable degree, alternate, broadly ovate, 

 scarcely pointed, rather glaucous, often purplish at the margin, 

 as the stem is in the lower i)art. Umbels terminal, comj)ound, 

 solitaiy, of about G frcneral raijs, and rather more, very short, 

 partial ones. Partial bracteas large, thrice as long as tlie llowers, 

 ovate, ribbed, yellowish-green, eacii with a minute bristly i)oint. 

 FL of a full yellow, witli remarkably siiort petals. 



This plant has been reckoned among tiie vulnerary herbs ; but its 

 virtues, whether ever experienced or not, are recorded in old 

 herbalti only. 



2. B. Odontites, Narrow-lea vcd Hare's -tar. 

 Partial bracteas live, ovale, aeulc, ihn e-rihhed ; geuiial 



