122 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



England, having nearly the same range as B. rotundifolium, except 

 that it occurs also in Cheshire and Lancashire. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



Stem sometimes erect with short paniculate branches, some- 

 times procumbent with elongate branches, 6 to 18 inches long. 

 Leaves 1 to 2J inches long, the lower ones narrowed towards the 

 base, the upper narrowed at each end, the uppermost linear- 

 subulate. Leaves of the involucel i to ^ inch long. Umbels very 

 shortly stalked, axillary and terminal, with 1 to 5 rays, the lateral 

 ones with usually not more than 2 very short and nearly equal 

 rays, the terminal one with the rays very unequal, the longest 

 sometimes ^ inch long; pedicels very short. Elowers minute, 

 yellow ; petals roundish, with an entire incurved point. Cremo- 

 carp -^f inch long, rather broader than long, covered with tubercles, 

 which resemble grains of sand. Plant dull-green, often tinged with 

 reddish-brown, slightly glaucous. This plant is very unlike one of 

 the Umbelliferao, its habit being something between Polygonum 

 aviculare and Juncus bufonius. 



Slender Sare's-ear. 



French, Buplevre Menu. German, Feines Ilasenohrchen. 



SPECIES IV.— BUPLEU RUM FALCATUM. Linn. 



Plate DXCII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 1885. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 26. 



Perennial. Uootstock almost woody. Stems erect, paniculately 

 branched. Kadical leaves on long stalks, oval ; stem-leaves oblan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, the upper ones strapshaped, falcate, acute, 5- or 

 7-nerved. Involucre of 1 to 5 unequal oblong or lanceolate leaves ; 

 involucel regular, of 5 oblong abruptly acuminate leaves, nearly 

 as long as the flowers, spreading in flower, sub-connivent in fruit. 

 Cremocarp oblong - ovoid, dark - brown, smooth, with prominent 

 ridges ; interstices each with 3 vittae. 



In hedgerows and borders of fields. Very local, but abundant 

 about Norton Mandeville, between On gar and Chelmsford, Essex. 



England. Perennial. Autumn. 



Uootstock branched, some of the branches terminating in tufts 

 of radical leaves on long stalks, others in erect flowering-stems 1 

 to 4 feet high, with short alternate branches in the upper portion. 

 Leaves sub - coriaceous, 2 to 4 inches long ; lower stem - leaves 

 attenuated into an indistinct petiole, the upper ones sessile. Leaves 



