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14. JEGOPO'DIUM, L. GOAT-, GOUT-, or BISHOP'S-WEED. 

 Stem stout, glabrous. Rootstock creeping. Leaves 2-3-ternate ; leaflets 

 broad. Umbels compound, many-rayed; bracts and bracteoles few <>r 0; 

 flowers white. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals broad, unequal, point inflexud. 

 Disk-lobes tumid; styles slender, reflexed. Fruit ovoid, laterally com- 

 pressed, carpophore 2-fid ; carpels 5-angled, primary ridges slender equal 

 distant ; vittre 0. Seed subterete. DISTEIB. Europe, excl. Spain, W. 

 Asia. ETYM. dfand TTOUS, from the likeness of the leaf to a goat's foot. 



1. JE. Podagra'ria, Z. ; leaves deltoid. Herb Gerard. 

 Waste places near buildings or gardens, from Elgin southwards ; a doubtful 

 native; a denizen in N. Britain, Watson; fl. June-Aug. Glabrous. Hoot- 

 stock white, pungent, aromatic. Stem 1-2 ft., tistular, grooved, branched 

 above. Leaves 4-5 in., uppermost opposite; leaflets sessile, obliquely lance- 

 olate or ovate-acuminate, irregularly serrate. Umbels terminal. 1 

 small. Fruit fe in., narrow-ovoid. 



15. PIMPINEL'LA, L. BrilXET-SAXIFKAGE. 



Perennial, rarely annual herbs. Leaves pinnate or 3-nately compound. 

 Umbels compound ; bracts bracteoles few or ; flowers white or 

 yellow. Calyx-teeth small, or 0. Petals deeply notched, point lonij 

 inflexed. Disk-lobes thick, conical. Fruit ovoid or oblong, laterally 

 compressed, constricted at the broad commissure, carpophore -2- lid : 

 carpels 5-angled, primary ridges equal slender ; vittae many, in the inter- 

 stices ; styles short or long. Seed subterete, nearly flat in front, usually 

 free from the pericarp. DISTRIB. N. temp, regions, S. Africa, rare in S. 

 America ; species 70. ETYM. bipennula, from the 2-pinnatc leaves. 



1. P. Saxif raga, L. ; stem terete, radical leaves pinnate, leaflets sub- 

 orbicular, cauline 2-pinnate. 



Dry pastures from Sutherland southwards, ascends to 1,800 ft. in Yorkshire ; 

 fl. July. Perennial, glabrous or pubescent. RooMock slender, hot. ;.'-rid. 

 Stem 1-3 ft., slender, fun-owed, branched. Leaflets 4-8 pair, very variable, 

 serrate lobed or almost pinnatifid ; lobes of cauline much narrower. I'm In /.< 

 flat-topped. Flowe-s small, white. Fruit J in., glabrous, broadly ovoid; 

 styles short, reflexed. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), Siberia to Dahuria. 



2. P. mag'na, L. ; stem angular, leaves all pinnate, leaflets of radical 

 ovate subcordate, of cauline narrower. 



Bushy waste places, local in England, from York and Durham southwards ; 

 rare in Ireland ; fl. July- Aug. Much larger than P. Saxifraga, but similar, 

 34 ft. ; leaflets often 1-2 in., membranous and broad ; styles longer and 

 more slender ; outer flowers 2-sexual, inner male. DlSTBlB. Chiefly 

 Western and Mid. Europe, 



16. CONOPO'DIUM, Koch. EARTH -xrr. 



Glabrous or pilose herbs. Rootstock tuberous. Leaves 3-nately divided. 

 Umbels compound, many-rayed ; bracts and bracteoles or membranous ; 

 flowers white, polygamous, outer sometimes radiating. Calyx-teeth obsolete, 

 of outer flowers often irregular, 2-fid, with an inflexed point. J>iak- 

 lobes conical or depressed. Fruit ovoid or oblong, often shortly beaked ; 

 commissure constricted, carpophore 2-fid ; carpels subterete, primary 



