120 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES I— BUPLEURUM ROTUNDIFOLIU M. Liun. 



Plate DLXXXIX. 



Pceich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXL Tab. 1880. 

 JJiUot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1490. 



Annual. Stem corymboscly or paniculatcly branched in the 

 upper part, lladical leaves and lower stem-leaves obovate, the 

 latter amplexicaul; leaves in the middle and upper part of the 

 stem ovate-oval or roundish-oval, perfoliate : all entire, obtuse or 

 apiculate, with 7 to 21 nerves. Involucre none ; involucel of 5, 

 rarely 3 or 4, roundish-obovate leaves, connate at the base, spread- 

 ing in flower, connivent in fruit, sub-herbaceous, abruptly mucro- 

 nate or shortly aristate, with 5 to 7 nerves. Cremocarp oblong- 

 ovoid, dark-brown, not granulated, with very slender ridges and no 

 vittse. 



In cultivated ground, especially wheat - fields in chalky and 

 clayey soils. Uather rare, except in the South-Eastern counties, 

 though it extends as far North as Yorkshire and Durham. Absent 

 from the Western counties, where Somerset, Wilts, and Worcester, 

 appear to be its Northern limits. 



England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high, sparingly branched, or even simple 

 in small examples. Leaves 1 to 2J inches long. Umbels shortly- 

 stalked, terminal and opposite the leaves ; rays 3 to 10, nearly 

 equal, ^ to ^ inch long ; pedicels numerous, equal, very short. 

 Leaves of the involucel J to -J inch long, green tinged with yellow 

 on the inside, so that the involucel somewhat resembles the corolla 

 of a flower. Petals yellow, roundish, with a broad incurved point. 

 Cremocarp ^ inch long, sometimes appearing granulated when dry, 

 but not so when fresh. Plant glabrous and glaucous. A very hand- 

 some plant, with the habit of a Euphorbia. 



JPerfoliate ITare^s-ear, Tho7^ough-ioacc. 



French, Bv^levre ct Feuilles Rondes. German, Rundbldttriges Hasenbhrchen. 



SPECIES II.— B U P L E U R U M ARISTATUM. Bartl. 



Plate DXC. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 1888. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3G9. 



B. Odontites, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 24G8 (non Linn). 



Annual. Stems corymbosely or paniculatcly branched, simple 

 in small specimens. Leaves strapshapcd or oblanccolate-strap- 



