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UMBELLIFER^E. LV. SIUM. LVI. BUPLEURUM. 



10 S. ? HI'SPIDUM (Thunb. prod. p. 51. fl. cap. 2. p. 210.) 

 stem branched, striated, glabrous, rather hispid at the nodi ; 

 leaves tripinnate, hispid beneath, as well as on the petioles ; 

 leaflets short, divided into multifid lobes ; umbels opposite the 

 leaves ; involucrum of 5 leaves. If. . F. Native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. Anthriscus Capensis, Spreng. in Schultes, syst. 

 6. p. 526. Slum hispidum, Spreng. umb. spec. 96. Root fusi- 

 form. Fruit unknown. 



Hispid Water-parsnip. PL ? 



11 S.? A'SPERUM (Thunb. prod. p. 51. fl. cap. 2. p. 210.) 

 stem striated, glabrous, erect ; leaves somewhat tripinnate, gla- 

 brous ; leaflets multifid, lanceolate ; petioles and peduncles sca- 

 brous ; umbels terminal ; involucrum of 6 leaves. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. 96. Fruit un- 

 known. 



Rough Water-parsnip. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



12 S. VILLOSUM (Thunb. I.e.) stem erect; branches divari- 

 cate, striated ; leaves tripinnate ; leaflets ovate, deeply serrated, 

 and are, as well as the petioles, ciliated with villi ; umbels ter- 

 minal ; leaves of involucrum 6, ovate, with scarious margins. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. 97. 



Villous Water-parsnip. PL 



13 S.? FILIFOUUM (Thunb. prod. p. 50. fl. cap. 2. p. 207.) 

 stem erect, flexuous, terete ; radical leaves simple, linear-fili- 

 form, elongated ; umbels terminal ; involucrum of 8 leaves, 

 which are about equal in length to the umbel. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. 99. exclusive of the 

 synonymes. Schultes, syst. 6. p. 544. exclusive of the syno- 

 nymes. 



Thread-leaved Water-parsnip. PL 2 feet. 



14 S. GRANDIFLORUM (Thunb. prod. p. 50. fl. cap. 2. p. 208.) 

 stem erect, striated, branched a little ; leaves glabrous, bipin- 

 nate ; leaflets roundish, deeply toothed ; umbels terminal ; leaves 

 of involucrum 8, ovate, acuminated. 1. G. NatiYe of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. 99. Fruit said to be 

 obovate, and striated. 



Great-flowered Water-parsnip. PL 2 feet ? 



15 S.? PA'TULUM (Thunb. 1. c.) stem striated, glabrous; 

 branches divaricate ; leaves bipinnate, somewhat fasciculate ; 

 leaflets linear, trifid ; umbels terminal ; involucrum of 6 lanceo- 

 late leaves, with scarious margins. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. 89. Fruit unknown. 



Spreading Water-parsnip. PL spreading. 



16 S. PANICULA'TUM (Thunb. 1. c.) stem terete, striated, gla- 

 brous, panicled ; leaves bipinnate ; leaflets deeply pinnatifid, 

 linear, channelled ; umbels terminal ; involucrum of 6 lanceo- 

 late leaves, with scarious margins. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Spreng. umb. spec. 98. Fruit unknown. 



Panicled Water-parsnip. PL? 



17 S. JAPO'NICUM (Thunb. fl. jap. p. 118.) stem erect, flexu- 

 ous, branched above ; leaves pinnate, glabrous ; leaflets un- 

 equal, oblong-obovate, deeply toothed at the top : upper ones 

 lanceolate, quite entire ; umbels terminal. Native of Japan. 

 Stem terete. Superior leaves ternate. Umbels of many rays. 



Japan Water- parsnip. PL 1 to 2 feet? 



18 S. ? DECU'MBENS (Thunb. fl. jap. p. 118.) stems decum- 

 bent; leaves bipinnate, on long petioles, glabrous; leaflets trifid; 

 umbels terminal, nearly simple. 7. H. Native of Japan. 

 Perhaps S. Grae'cum, Lour. coch. p. 179. is referrible to this 

 species. 



Decumbent Water-parsnip. PL decumbent. 



19 S.? OPPOSITIFOLIUM (Kit. in Schultes, fl. austr. 2. p. 495. 

 syst. 6. p. 506.) leaves numerous, opposite, doubly pinnate; 

 leaflets linear, acuminated, quite entire. Native of Hungary, on 

 the mountains. 



Opposite-leaved Water-parsnip. PL ? 



Cult. All the species of this genus do best in a moist soil, 

 and most of them altogether in water. They are increased by 

 separating the roots and stolons. 



LVI. BUPLEU'RUM (from /3ov , bous, an ox, and 

 pleuron, a side ; so called from a supposed bad quality in swell- 

 ing kine that feed on some species of the genus). Tourn. inst. 

 309. t. 163. Lin. gen. no. 328. Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 100. Koch, 

 umb. 114. f. 51, 52. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 880. D. C. prod. 4. p. 

 127. Bupleurum, Tenoria, Buprestis, and Odontites, Spreng. 

 prod. Bupleurum and Trachypleurum, Reichb. consp. 1. p. 

 143. Bupleurum, Diaphyllum, Isophyllum, and Odontites, 

 Hoffm. umb. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete. 

 Petals roundish, entire, strictly involute, with a broad retuse 

 point. Fruit compressed from the sides or somewhat didymous, 

 crowned by the depressed stylopodium ; mericarps with 5 fili- 

 form acute winged ribs, or with obsolete ones ; lateral ribs mar- 

 ginating ; furrows between the ribs either furnished with vittae or 

 without them, smooth or granular. Seed teretely convex, flat- 

 tish in front. Quite glabrous herbs or shrubs. Leaves rarely 

 cut, but mostly quite entire in consequence of the limbs, which 

 are supposed to be absent, and the petioles being dilated, and 

 changed into quite entire phyllodia, as in many species of Acacia. 

 Umbels compound. Involucrum variable. Flowers yellow 

 A very natural genus, with a distinct habit from all other umbel- 

 liferous genera, but the fruit is variable in character. 



* Annual plants, 



. 1 B. PAPILLOSUM (D. C. prod. 4. p. 127.) stem erect, branch- 

 ed ; leaves linear, acute, stiffish ; umbels terminal, of 3-4 rays ; . 

 involucrum of 3-4 unequal leaves ; umbellules 10-flowered ; in- 

 volucels of 5 reflexed leaves, longer than the fruit ; fruit coarsely 

 papillose all over. O- H. Native of the Levant. Allied to 

 B. glaucum and B. tenuissimum, but the branches of the umbel 

 are perfect; and the fruit is beset with large, obtuse, white 

 papillae. 



Papillose-fruited Hare's-ear. PL A to 1 foot. 



2 B. TENUISSIMUM (Lin. spec. p. 343.) stem erect, branched ; 

 leaves linear, tapering to each end, rather glaucous ; umbels 

 simple, alternate, of about 3-5 flowers, surrounded by 5 awl- 

 shaped braeteas ; fruit roundish-ovate, with 5 ribs, and between 

 the ribs beset with fine granulations. O- H. Native of middle 

 and south Europe, even to Caucasus, in sterile grassy places, 

 particularly by the sea-side. In England in muddy salt marshes ; 

 on the shore near Worthing ; at Lynn, Wisbeach, Cley, Hoik- 

 ham, &c. in salt water ditches or muddy places over-flowed by 

 the tide. Fl. dan. t. 1090. Smith, engl. bot. t. 478. Reichb. 

 icon. 2. p. 58. t. 167. B. minimum, Ray, syn. p. 221. Odon- 

 tites tenuissima, Spreng. prod. 33. Agostana tenuissima, Bute, 

 vol. 8. p. 299. B. junceun), Poll. B. Pollichii, Gmel. fl. bad. 

 1. p. 613. B. junceum var. y,. Schultes, syst. 6. p. Sli. 

 Barrel, icon. t. 1168. 



Var. ft, nanum (D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 350.) stem very humble, 

 and very much branched, diffuse. Q. H. Native of Normandy 

 and Picardy, by the sea-side. B. tenuissimum, Bouch. fl. abb. p. 

 20. Habit almost of B. glaucum, but the leaves of the invo- 

 lucels are quite entire, and the fruit is furnished with 10 ribs. 



Very-slender Hare's-ear. Fl. Aug. Sept. Britain. PL 

 to 1 foot. 



3 B. PROCU'MBENS (Desf. fl. all. 1. p. 230. t. 56.) stems pro- 

 cumbent, paniculately branched ; lower leaves narrow-lanceo- 

 late, the rest linear-subulate ; involucrum of 2 leaves ; involu- 

 cels of .5, nearly ovate, acute, very short leaves ; fruit short and 

 muricated by tubercles. H. Native about Tunis. Odon- 

 tites procumbens, Spreng. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 383. Habit 



