UMBELLIFER^E. 113 



with an inflexecl point. Stamens incurved, not projecting beyond tlie 

 petals. Cremocarji ^ inch long, elliptical or ol^long-ovoid, slightly 

 compressed, much longer and narrower than in the two preceding 

 species, deep chestnut-colour, with the ridges pale and slender. 

 Styles short, reflexed, longer than the swollen stylopods. Plant 

 glabrous, dark-green. 



Great Earth-nut. 



French, Terrenoix commune. German, Knollentragender Kiimmel. 



The roots of this plant are esculent, but until lately were supposed not to grow- 

 wild in Britain. It is called by the Italians Pancaseole, a name signifying bread and 

 cheese, the deficiency of which it supplies either raw or boiled, and somewhat resembles 

 the chestnut in flavour. 



GJENUS XIII— B U N I U M. D. C. 



Calyx -limb obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, with an 

 inflexed lobe. Cremocarp oblong-ovoid, attenuated towards the 

 apex ; columella bifid ; mericarps with 5 equal filiform ridges ; 

 interstices each with 2 or 3 vitta? ; inner face channelled. Seed 

 channelled on the inner side (that towards the columella). Invo- 

 lucres none, or of few leaves. 



Plant with exactly the habit of the tuberous Cara, from which 

 it is artificially separated by the seed having a longitudinal furrow 

 on the inner side, on which account it is sometimes removed to the 

 Scandicineae ; but the furrow is much shallower than in that 

 tribe, and in other respects the plant agrees too closely with Carum 

 for so wide a separation. 



The origin of the name of this genus is possibly from the word [dovvoq (houtios), 

 a hill or elevated spot, the plant loving dry situations. 



SPECIES L—BUNIUM FLEXUOSUM. With.. 



Plate DLXXXIV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2682. 



Conopodium denudatum, Koch. Gr. & Godr. Fl, de Fr. Yol. I. p. 745. 



Carum flexuosum. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. pp. 24, 180. 



Rootstock an irregularly sub-globular tuber. Leaves deltoid in 

 outline, ternately bipinnate, with the segments strapshaped or 

 elliptical-strapshaped. Involucre none, or of 1 to 3 leaves ; invo- 

 lucel of 1 to 7 linear-strapshaped leaves. Umbels pendulous before 

 flowering. Plowers monoecious. Cremocarp attenuated towards 

 the apex; interstices between the ridges each with 2 or 3 vittse. 

 Styles erect ; stylopods conical. 



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