SANGUISORBE^:. VIII. POTERIUM. IX. CUFFOHTIA. 



595 



/ ar. y, inerme (D. C. 1. c.) branches elongated, unarmed, 

 beset with spreading hairs ; leaflets flat, serrated, glabrous above 

 and rather villous beneath. fj . H. This variety is probably 

 occasioned by culture. 



Spiny Burnet. Fl. April, Aug. Clt. 1595. Sh. 2 to 3 ft. 



2 P. CAUDA'TUM (Ait. hort. kew. 3. p. 354.) shrubby; 

 branches unarmed ; petioles, peduncles, and under surface of 

 leaves villous ; spikes elongated, cylindrical. I? . G. Native 

 of the Canary Islands. Sims, bot. mag. 2341. Coll. hort. rip. 

 112. t. 40. Flowers dioecious, sometimes 6-cleft and trigynous, 

 greenish. 



Tailed Burnet. Fl. Jan. April. Clt. 1779. Shrub 2 to 3 ft. 



SECT. II. RUTIDOPOTE'RIUM (from pvnc, rutis, a wrinkle, and 

 poterium ; in reference to the wrinkled or warted fruit of the 

 species contained in the section). D. C. prod. 2. p. 594. Fruit 

 (tube of calyx) wrinkled or tuberculated. Spikes globose. 

 Stems herbaceous or frutescent at the very base. 



3 P. ANCISTROI'DES (Desf. atl. 2. p. 346. t. 251.) suffruticose 

 at the base ; branches angular, decumbent ; leaflets 4-5 pairs, 

 ovate-roundish, villous on the nerves beneath. ^7 . F. Native 

 of the north of Africa, in the fissures of rocks near Tlemsen, 

 and at the foot of Mount Lebanon. Fruit wrinkled. 



Ancistrum-like Burnet. Shrub procumbent. 



4 P. SANGUISORBA (Lin. spec. 1411.) herbaceous ; stems and 

 leaves glabrous ; leaflets ovate-roundish ; lower flowers of the 

 head male, upper ones female. I/ . H. Native of Europe, 

 in high dry pastures on a calcareous soil ; plentiful in the 

 chalky counties of England. Smith, engl. hot. 860. Cam. 

 epit. 777. Curt. lond. 2. t. 64. Mart. fl. rust. t. 69. Pim- 

 pinella Sanguisorba, Gacrtn. fruct. 1. p. 162. t. 32. Pim- 

 pinelia polystemon, Hall. helv. no. 706. Flowers greenish 

 or purplish. Stipulas cut. Root fusiform. The btirnet was 

 originally brought into notice by Rocque, a commercial gardener 

 at Walham Green, near London, who found means to procure the 

 patronage of the Dublin and other societies to this plant, which 

 being a novelty, attracted the attention, and called forth the 

 eulogies of Arthur Young, and other leading agriculturists of the 

 day. Miller, however, at the time observed, that whoever will 

 give themselves the trouble to examine the grounds where it 

 naturally grows, will find the plants left uneaten by the cattle 

 when the grass about them has been cropped to the roots ; be- 

 sides, in wet winters and on strong land, the plants are of short 

 duration, and therefore very unfit for the purpose of pasture or 

 hay ; nor is the produce sufficient to tempt any persons of skill 

 to engage in its culture. Mr. Curtis says of burnet, that it is 

 one of those plants which has for some years past been attempted 

 to be introduced into agriculture, but not answering the farmer's 

 expectation, is now in a great degree laid aside. Cattle are said 

 not to be fond of it ; nor is its produce sufficient to answer the 

 expence attending its culture. 



Var. (3, pubemlmn (D. C. prod. 2. p. 594.) stems and leaves 

 puberulous. Tf.. H. Native of the south of France. 



Common Burnet. Fl. June, July. Britain. PL 1 to 2 feet. 



5 P. POLV'GAMUM (Waldst. et Kit. pi. rar. hung. 2. p. 198.) 

 herbaceous ; stems angular, and are, as well as the leaves, gla- 

 brous ; leaflets ovate-oblong ; lower flowers of the heads male, 

 middle ones hermaphrodite, upper ones female. 7/ . H. Native 

 of Hungary, in dry situations. Heads greenish or purplish. 



Polygamous Burnet. Fl. July. Clt. 1803. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



6 P. AGRIMONIFOLIUM (Cav. clench, hort. madr. 1803.) her- 

 baceous ; stems nearly terete, covered with glandular down ; 

 leaflets oblong, with smaller ones sometimes intermixed. Tf.. H. 

 Native of Spain, in Granada. 



Var. ft, hybridum (Lin. spec. 1411.) leaflets oval or ovate. 



I/. H. Native of the south of France. Barrel, icon. 632. 

 Pimpinella agrimonioides, Mor. oxon. sect. 8. t. IS. f. 9. Leaves 

 like those of agrimony, sweet-scented. 



Agrimony-leaved Burnet. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1822. PI. 2 ft. 



7 P. VILLOSUM (Sibth. et Smith, fl. graec. t. 912. ex prod. 2. 

 p. 238.) herbaceous ; stems angular from furrows, hairy ; leaf- 

 lets oblong, deeply toothed. 1. H. Native about Constanti- 

 nople. Pimpinella orientalis villosissimus, Tourn. cor. 8. 



1'illous Burnet. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



8 P. VERRUCOSUM (Link, in litt.) very like P. sanguisorba, 

 and differs only in the warted fruit. 1{. H. Native of 1 Flowers 

 greenish. 



JVarted-frwted Burnet. Fl. July. Clt. 1828. PI. I to 2 ft. 



9 P. A'NNUUM (Nutt. mss. in Hook. fl. bor. amer. p. 198.) 

 herbaceous, annual, glabrous ; stem erect, dichotomous ; leaves 

 with 4-5 pairs of ovate, deeply pectinately pinnate leaflets, 

 having the segments very narrow-linear ; heads oval, unisexual '>. 

 0. H. Native of North America, on the grand rapids of the 

 Columbia river, and on the plains of the Multnomak, and of 

 Louisiana on the Red river. 



Annual Burnet. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. The hardy herbaceous kinds of burnet will grow in 

 any common soil, and are best increased by seeds, as most of 

 them are little better than biennial plants. The shrubby species, 

 or those belonging to the first section, thrive best in a light rich 

 soil, and young cuttings root readily in the same kind of soil 

 under a hand-glass. 



IX. CLIFFO'RTIA (this name was given by Eichrodt in 

 honour of George Cliffort, the first patron of Linnaeus, a mer- 

 chant of Amsterdam ; a catalogue of whose garden at Harte- 

 camp was published by Linnaeus under the title of Hortus Clif- 

 fortianus, Amst. 1737. fol.) Lin. gen. no. 1133. Lam. ill. t. 

 827. D. C. prod. 2. p. 595. Cliflortia and Morilandia, Neck, 

 elem. no. 765 and 766. Nenax, Gsertn. fruct. 1. t. 132. 



LIN. SYST. Dicecia, Polyandria. Flowers dioecious. Tube 

 of calyx urceolate ; limb 3-parted (f. 80. a.). Petals wanting. 

 Stamens about 30 in the male flowers (f. 80. &.). Ovaries 2 in 

 the female flowers. Styles 2. Stigmas elongated, feathery, 

 bearded. Akenia 1-2, covered by the calyx, dry, indehiscent, 

 1 -seeded. Seed erect. Cotyledons oblong, foliaceous. Shrubs, 

 all natives of the Cape of Good Hope. The leaves are truly 

 trifoliate, but the form is variable. Stipulas (f. 80. </.) adher- 

 ing to the petioles, which are exceedingly short. Flowers in- 

 significant, axillary, almost sessile. 



1. Multinervce (rnultus, many, and nervus, a nerve ; leaves 

 with many nerves). D. C. prod. 2. p. 595. Leaflets solitary, 

 many-nerved at the base. Stipulas 

 simple, but the leaves, although 

 said to be solitary, are probably 

 composed of 3-joined leaflets, fur- 

 nished with a stipula on each side 

 (f. 80. d.). 



1 C. ILLICIFOI.IA (Lin. spec. 

 1469.) leaves roundish-elliptic, 

 stem - clasping, glabrous, stiff, 

 somewhat 3-lobed,and spiny-tooth- 

 ed at the apex. J? . G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope, as are 

 also all the following. Dill. hort. 

 elth. t. 31. f. 35. Lin. hort. cliff, 

 t. 30. Filaments white ; anthers 

 yellow, (f. 80.) 



Holly-leavedCtiffortia. Fl.May, 

 Sept. Clt. 1714. Shrub 2 to 3 ft. 

 4o2 



FIG. 80. 



