UMBELLIFER^. 161 



but occurring in most of the Southern and Eastern counties, as far 

 North as Yorkshire and Durham. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



Stem erect, 6 to 18 inches high, branched ; branches making 

 a large angle with the stem. Leaves very shortly stalked, deltoid 

 in outline, finely divided. Hays of the umbel f to 1 inch long, 

 nearly glabrous on the outside, rough within. Elowers n, inch 

 across, white, frequently tinged with rose-colour, slightly radiant. 

 Petals obovate-roundish, notched, with an incurved point. Cremo- 

 carp I to ^ inch long, pale-olive, with the spines paler ; secondary 

 ridges very prominent, with the spines rather distant, spreading at 

 right angles. Plant glabrous, with the stem immediately below the 

 nodes hispid ; petioles and leaves with distant spreading pellucid 

 hairs. 



Small Bur-JParsley. 



French, Caucalide ti Feuilles de Garotte. German, Morenformige Haftdolde. 



Sub-Genus II.— TURGENIA. Hoffm. 



Calyx of 5 subulate teeth. Cremocarp sub-didymous ; meri- 

 carps with the 3 dorsal primary and the secondary ridges promi- 

 nent, the former armed with 3 rows of rough spines, the latter 

 with 1 row, the primary ribs on the commissural face with 

 tubercles. Involucre of 3 to 5 elliptical scarious leaves, with an 

 herbaceous stripe in the centre. 



SPECIES II.— C AUG ALTS LATIFOLIA. Linn. 



Plate DCXVIII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 564. 



Turgenia latifolia, Hoffm. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 344. Gr. & Godr. 

 FI. de Fr. Vol. L p. 675. 



Stem erect, nearly simple, puberulent, furrowed. Leaves pin- 

 nate, with the leaflets strapshaped, short, inciso-serrate ; ultimate 

 segments or teeth triangular. Umbels of 2 to 4 rays. Elowers 

 polygamous, fertile ones 2 or 3, exterior, subsessile ; male ones on 

 longer stalks. Involucre of 3 to 5 strapshaped-elliptical leaves, 

 with very broad scarious margins ; involucels of 3 to 5 oblong- 

 strapshaped wholly scarious leaves. Cremocarp elliptical-ovoid, 

 constricted between the mericarps, the primary and secondary 

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