CLASS V. ORDER II.] BUNIDM. 365 



Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 129. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 122. 

 Sison verticillatum, Linn. English Botany, t. 295. Sium verticilla- 

 tum. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 59. 



Root tapering. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, slender, 

 round, smooth, finely striated, slightly branched, and almost naked. 

 Leaves almost all from the base of the stem, footstalk long, round, 

 finely striated, tapering, dilated and sheathing at the base. Leaflets 

 opposite, divided nearly to the base into numerous narrow hair-like 

 segments, which spread, and have the appearance of being whorled. 

 Umbels terminal, general of numerous long slender unequal rays, 

 partial of numerous short unequal ones. General involucre of about 

 six narrow lanceolate segments, partial of about eight, ovate-lanceolate. 

 Flowers while, numerous, crowded. Calyx an obtuse narrow margin. 

 Petals five or six, obovate, slightly notched at the extremity with an 

 inflexed obtuse point. Stamens h've, as long as the petals. Anthers 

 small, roundish. Styles as long as the stamens. Stigmas small, 

 globose. Fruit oblong, with compressed sides. Carpels with five 

 filiform obtuse ridges, three on the back, and two lateral ones forming 

 the margins. Channels with single simple vitUs. Albumen round at 

 the back, fiattish in front. 



Habitat. Unknown to England ; in the flat part of Wales ; in 

 Ireland, in a marsh near Lane Bridge, Killarney, and other places in 

 Kerry, marshes in the district called Cranmore, near Belfast. Mr. 

 Templeton. Salt marshes below Coleraine, county of Derry. Mr. D. 

 Moore. Very abundant in moist pastures in the West of Scotland, 

 especially near, the sea. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



GENUS LVII. BUNI'UM. KOCH. Earth-nut. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx margin obsolete. Petals obovate, slightly notched 

 with an inflexed point. .Frut* linear, oblong, laterally compressed, 

 crowned by the conical disk and straight styles. Carpels with 

 five equal obtuse filiform ridges, the lateral ones forming the 

 margins. Channels with many mttae. Albumen convex at the 

 back, flat in front. General involucre none ; partial of a few 

 segments. Named from^/Souvoj, a hill, the situation in which the 

 plants delight to grow. 



1. B.flex^uosum, With. (Fig. 330). common Earth-nut. 

 English Botany, t. 988. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 54. Conopodium 



denudatum, Koch. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 121. Bunium denudatum, 



De Cand. B. Bulbocastanum, Pludson. 



