124 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



point; fruit ovoid, covered with hooked bristles. Not 

 alpine. 



S. europcea, L. ; stem simple, nearly leafless, flowers 

 often pink ; woods, common 



3. HACQUETIA, DC. 



Stem simple, leafless, bearing a single simple umbel 

 with large involucre ; flowers small, yellowish-green. 



H. Epipactis, DC.; radical leaves 3 5-lobed, umbel 

 capitate, surrounded by an involucre of yellowish bracts 

 three times larger; bushy places; Carniola, Carinthia, 

 Styria. 



4. ASTRANTIA, L. 



Umbels simple or compound; general involucre large, 

 membranous, coloured ; calyx - teeth longer than the 

 petals; petals notched, with a long inflexed point; one 

 vitta in each furrow. 



A. major, L. (PL 46); radical leaves palmately divided, 

 with elliptic ovate serrate segments, stem 1-2 ft, invo- 

 lucral bracts white, red, or green, about as long as 

 umbel, calyx-teeth lanceolate; bushy places, common. 

 A. carinthiaca, Hoppe; resembling the last, but stem 

 more branched, involucral bracts nearly twice as long as 

 umbel, usually bidentate at the tip ; Carniola, Carinthia, 

 local. A. carniolica, Wulf. (gracilis, Bartl.) ; involucral 

 bracts shorter than umbel; calyx -teeth ovate, blunt; 

 Carniola, Carinthia, Styria. A. minor, L. ; radical leaves 

 digitate, leaflets deeply cut, with narrow lanceolate seg- 

 ments, involucre and petals white, stem slender, 8-12 

 in. ; alpine meadows, frequent. A. alpina, Schultz ; 

 radical leaves 3 -partite to the base, unequally serrate, 



