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shaped, entire, with 3 or 5 nerves. Involucre of 3 to 5 elliptical 

 leaves, nearly as long as the umbel-rays and involucels taken 

 together; involucel of 5 elliptical-ovate leaves, longer than the 

 flowers ; leaves of both connivent both in flower and fruit, herba- 

 ceous, with a very narrow white scarious border, mucronate or 

 shortly aristate, with 3 to 5 nerves united by anastomosing veins. 

 Cremocarp shortly oblong-ovoid, dark-brown, not granulated, with 

 very slender inconspicuous ridges ; interstices each with a single 

 vitta. 



On dry sandy banks and roadsides. Very rare. Parkhill, 

 Torquay ; more plentiful in the Channel Islands. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



English specimens 1 to 3 inches high ; the stem very slender, 



simple, or forked, rarely with more than a single branch ; but in 



Jersey I collected specimens 10 inches high, wdth very numerous 



branches, which curve slightly upw^ards. Radical leaves in English 



specimens ^ to 1 inch long, oblanceolate ; stem-leaves narrowly 



strapshaped : in some of the Jersey plants the radical leaves are 



strapshaped, 2 inches long. Involucral leaves J to -| inch long, 



those of the involucel i to ^ inch. Eays of the umbel 2 to 5, 



unequal, ^j to ^ inch long; pedicels very short. Elow^ers few, 



very minute, yellow ; petals roundish, with a broad emarginate 



inflexed point. Cremocarp ^^ inch long. Plant glabrous, slightly 



glaucous. 



Narroio-leaved Scire s-ear. 



French, Buplevre ariete. 



SPECIES III.— BU PL EUR UM TENUISSIMUM. Lhm. 



Plate DXCI. 

 Rdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 1891. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 778. 



Annual. Stems procumbent and difi'use or erect and panicu- 

 lately or racemosely branched. Leaves oblanceolate-linear, the 

 upper ones straiDshaped or linear, very acute but not aristate, 

 with 3 nerves. Involucre of 3 to 5 unequal linear-subulate very 

 acute leaves ; involucel of 4 or 5 leaves, similar to those of the 

 involucre, 1-nerved, longer than the floAvers, connivent in flower, 

 spreading in fruit. Cremocarp sub-globular, much compressed, 

 dark-brown, papillose-granulated, with prominent ridges and no 

 vittse. 



In salt marshes and waste places near the sea, and in fields 

 and on commons inland. Rather common in the South-East of 



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