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Woods and pastures, frequent. Fl. May, June. ^.—Root a soli- 

 tary tuber, much sought after by children and pigs. Stem solitary, 

 erect, flexuose, with few leaves much divided into very slender, linear, or 

 almost setaceous segments. Fruit oblong, moderately ribbed, a little 

 narrower upwards, crowned with the straight styles, which have co- 

 nical, very tumid bases. 



15. Pimpinella. Linn. Burnet-Saxifrage. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals obcordate with an inflexed point. Fruit 

 laterally contracted, ovate, crowned with the swollen base of 

 the reflexed styles. Carpels with five filiform equal ridges of 

 which the lateral ones are marginal. Interstices with many 

 viltee. Seed gibbous, plane in front. — Universal and partial 

 involucres 0. — Name altered, as Linnaeus informs us, from 

 bipennula, twice pinnated. Pentandria. Digynia. 



1. P. Saxifraga, Linn. Common Burnet- Saxifrage. Radical 

 leaves pinnate, their leaflets roundish, sharply serrate or cut, 

 those of the stem bipinnate, linear. Br. FL 1. p. 126. E. Fl. 

 v. ii. p. 89. E. Bot. t. 407. 



Dry pastures, frequent. Fl. July, Aug. %.. — Stem-leaves few ; 

 lower and radical ones upon long stalks. Leaflets of the latter often 

 deeply and pinnatifidly cut, and sometimes bipinnatifidly so. 



2. P. magna, Linn. Greater Burnet-Saxifrage. Leaves all 

 pinnate ; leaflets ovato-serrate, subincised, the terminal one 

 (rarely the lateral ones) 3-lobed. Br. Fl. 1. p. 126. E. Fl. V. 

 ii. p. 90. E. Bot. t. 408. 



Shady places, on a limestone soil. Friar's Walk, near Cork ; Mu- 

 cruss Woods, near the abbey ; and churchyard at Youghal. Fl. July, 

 Aug. If.. — Larger in all its parts than the foregoing, and the leaflets 

 of the upper leaves much broader and less divided. 



16. Carum. Linn. Caraway. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals obcordate. Fruit laterally compressed, 

 oblong. Carpels with five, filiform, equal ridges, their inner 

 faces plane. Interstices with single vittce. .Seerftereti-convex, 

 plane in front. — Universal and partial involucres various. — 

 Name derived, according to Pliny, from that of the country 

 Caria. Pentandria. Digynia. 



1. C. Carui, Linn. Common Caraway. Stem branched, par- 

 tial involucre none, general scarcely any. Br. Fl. 1. p. 127. 

 E. Fl. v. ii. p. 8G. E. Bot. t. 1503. 



Meadows and pastures, occasionally. Fields near Kilmainham, &c. 

 Fl. June. $ . — Stem one to two feet high. Leaves doubly pinnated, 

 cut into linear segments, of which the lowermost are decussate. 

 Umbels dense. Carpels agreeably aromatic, and well known in. 

 the Kitchen and Pharmacopeia under the name of Caraway Seeds. 



