162 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



ridi^es with numerous retrorsely echinatc subulate ascending- 

 spreading spines, nearly as long as the diameter of the fruit. 



A weed in eornfields. Very rare. About Langport, Somerset. 

 Formerly abundant in Cambridgeshire, but believed to be now 

 extinct there. Hudson gives about Crooks Easton, Hampshire. 

 Messrs. "Webb and Colman have seen dried specimens collected in 

 Hertfordshire, and Mr. Motley says 3 specimens were gathered in 

 Carmarthenshire. It has also been reported from Bedfordshire, 



England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem erect, G to 18 inches high. Leaves very shortly stalked, 

 oblong-triangular in outline, with the leaflets J to 2 inches long, 

 parallel-sided. Hays of the umbel f to 1 inch long, thickly clothed 

 with very short hairs, and sparingly with large cartilaginous ascend- 

 ing ones. Elowers radiant, J inch across, pink. Petals roundish- 

 obovatc, notched, with an inflexed lobe. Cremocarp i to f inch 

 long, olive ; spines brownish-purple, with small slightly reflexedor 

 spreading short bristles. Plant hispid, dull-green. 



Great Bur-JParsley. 

 French, Caucalide ct Larges Feuilles. 



Sub-Genus III.— TOEILIS. Boffm. 



Calyx of 5 small lanceolate teeth. Cremocarp ovoid, laterally 

 compressed, sub-didymous. Mericarps with the primary ridges 

 filiform, hispid, the secondary ones obsolete, but the whole of the 

 interstices clothed with spines, at least in the exterior fruits. Invo- 

 lucre of 1 to 5 leavi5s, or absent. 



SPECIES III.— C AUCALIS INFEST A. Curtis. 



Plate DCXIX. 



Billot, FI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 30. 



Torilis infesta, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. L52. Ilooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 



p. 188. 

 T. Helvetica, Gmel Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 22. Koch, Syr. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 



ed. ii. p. 345. Gr. & Goclr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 675. J). C. Prod. Vol. IV. 



p. 219. 



Stem erect, corymbpsely branched, usually with numerous short 

 divaricate branches, striate, sparingly hairy in the upper part, with 

 the hairs reversed and adpressed. Leaves bipinnate or pinnate with 



