ORD. VI. Umbellate. 153 
PIMPINELLA SAXIFRAGA. SMALL BURNET-SAXIFRAGE. 
SYNONYMA, Pimpinella. Pharm. Edinb. Pimpinella saxifraga 
minor. Bauh. Pin. p. 160. Pimpinella seu saxifraga minor. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 1044. Saxifraga hircina minor. Park. Theat. 
p. 947. Rati Hist. p.445. Synop. p. 213.  Tragoselinum foliis 
pinnatis, pinnis ovatis. Hail. Stirp. Helv. n. 786. P. Saxifraga. 
Hudson. Flor. Ang. p. 127... Smith. Brit. 331. Lightfoot. Flor- 
Scot. p.169. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 313. Relhan. Flor. Cant. 
_p. 12h. Ic. Jacq. Aust. $95.- Flor—Dan.669. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 366. 7 
Ess. Gen. Ch: Fructus ovato-oblongus. Petala inflexa. Stigmata: 
subglobosa. 
Sp. Ch. P. folits pinnatis: foliolis radicalibus subrotundis; summis: 
linearibus. 
THE root is perennial, spindle-shaped, whitish: the stem is erect, 
round, scored, downy, jointed, towards the top a little branched,, 
and rises above a foot in height: the leaves are-variously shaped, 
pinnated, alternate; on the upper part of the stem they divide into 
simple linear laciniz ;. toward the bottom the pinnz are broader, 
and. at the root roundish, and deeply indented at the edges: the 
flowers are white, and stand in umbels, which are terminal, flat, 
consisting of twelve radii or more, both in the general and partial 
umbels: there is no involucrum: the proper corolla consists of 
five petals, which are ovate, and bent inwards at their extremities: 
the filaments. are white, tapering, spreading, and furnished with 
roundish anthere: the germen is egg-shaped, striated, and upon 
it is placed a white fleshy double nectarium: the two styles are: 
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