108 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



E-oot thick, fusiform, clothed at the top with numerous stiff 

 fibres, the remains of decayed leafstalks, lladical leaves stalked, 

 with the stalks 1 to 3 inches long, the lamina rather longer than 

 the stalk, with the lateral branches about ^ the length of the whole ; 

 ultimate segments J to 1 inch long, very slender, pointed or niucro- 

 nate. Stem copiously branched from the base, with the lateral 

 branches nearly as long as the main stem, divaricate. Umbels flat- 

 topped in the male plants, somewhat irregular in the female; rays 

 of the male umbels J to ^ inch long, of the female 5^ to 1 inch. 

 Pedicels of the male flowers ^f^ to -§ inch long, those of the female 

 ^ to J inch. Involucre (when present) of a single leaf, which is 

 sometimes 3-cleft ; involucels of 2 or 3 very short linear leaves. 

 Plowers oi) inch across, white. Petals in the male flowers strap- 

 shaped, entire, incurved at the point ; of the female, much broader, 

 slightly notched, with an inflexed lobe. Cremocarp ^-q inch long, 

 nearly twice as long as broad, with the ridges concolorous, broad, 

 and but slightly elevated. Columella split to the base, with the 

 segments flattened and slightly dilated. Styles very short, longer 

 than the stylopods, divaricate, reflexed. Plant pale-green, very 

 glaucous. 



Glabrous Stonewort. 



French, Triide. Germau, Meergriine Trinie. 



GJSN US XI.—M GOPODIUM. Zmn. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obovate-roundish, notched, w4th 

 an inflexed point from the notch. Cremocarp oblong-ovoid, slightly 

 laterally compressed, crowned by the much - dilated stylopods ; 

 columella free, 2 - cleft ; mericarps with equal filiform ridges, 

 without vittse ; interstices without vittae. Involucre and involucel 

 none. 



A tall herb, with triternate leaves with ovate leaflets ; umbels 

 terminal, of white slightly radiant flowers, the petals on the outside 

 being slightly larger than those directed towards the centre of the 

 umbellule. 



Q^lie derivatioa of the name of this genus of plants is from ai^ (genitive aiyoc, aigos), 



goat, aud 7roi»f Q)uut>), foot. 



SPECIES I.— ^GOPODIUM POD AGRA III A. Linn, 



Platk DLXXX. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et II el v. Vol. XXL Tab. 1851. 

 Millot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 775. 



Leaves biternate, with ovate or lanceolate doubly - serrated 

 acuminate leaflets. Involucre and involucel none. 



