TJMBELLIFER.^. 173 



West-chcstcr, Kent ; and at lloosebeck, in Low Purness, Lanca- 

 shire. 



[England.] Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem erect or ascending-, angular, furrowed, corymbosely 

 branched, 6 inches to 1 foot high. Leaves with few distant spine-like 

 segments. Umbel rays 5 to 8, tliickencd and dikitcd towards the 

 apex in fruit. Leaves of the involucel broadly lanceolate, spinous, 

 about as long as the flowers. Male flowers stalked, with the calyx- 

 teeth radiant, their pedicels and calyx-teeth at length connivent 

 round the solitary central fertile flower, the ovary of which is im- 

 mersed in the hollow dilated apex of the umbel ray. Cremocarp 

 ovoid - acuminate, crowned by the 5 subulate calyx - teeth, the 

 conical stylopods, and the short erect styles ; one of the mericarps 

 often abortive. Plant finely pubescent, glaucous. 



Of this species I have only seen foreign specimens. 



Sea TricMy-Sam/phire. 



GENUS XXXri.—Q O N I U M. Linn. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obovate, slightly notched, with a 

 very short inflexed lobe. Cremocarp ovate, globose, laterally com- 

 pressed, smooth ; columella free, with the apex 2-cleft ; mericarps 

 with 5 prominent somewhat winged crimped equal ridges, the lateral 

 ones marginal ; interstices without vittse. Albumen of the seed with 

 a deep narrow furrow on the face next the columella. Involucre 

 and involucel of 3 to 5 leaves. 



Herbs with ternate-pinnately decompound leaves and compound 

 umbels of white flowers, the interior ones often male. 



The name of this genus of plants is said by Linnseus to originate iu the words 

 KoriQ {konis), or Kona (konia), dust or powder ; but the application of the term is 

 not evident. 



SPECIES I.— C ONIUM MACULATUM. Linn. 

 Plate DCXXIX. 

 milot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2473. 



Involucel dimidiate, of 3 to 5 ovate-lanceolate subscarious leaves, 

 shorter than the rays of the umbellule. 



Roadsides, waste places, and open parts of woods. Pather 

 common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem erect, 2 to 6 feet high or more, striate, smooth, glabrous, 



