xxxv. UMBELLA'CE^E : #UPLEU RUM. 



495 



carps 1 -seeded. Habit alone is sufficient to distinguish this order. 

 (IX Don.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen or sub-evergreen ; quite 

 entire. Floivers greenish yellow. There are only one or two ligneous 

 ripeeies hardy in British gardens, and these belong to the genus -Bupleurum. 



GENUS I. 



1MJPLEUVRUM Tourn. THE BUPLEURUM, or HARE'S EAR. 

 Lin. Syst. Pentandria Digjnia 



Httntification. Tourn. Inst., 309. t. 163. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 127. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 296. 

 Synonymes. Ten6rm and .Buprestis Sprcng. Syst. 1. p. 880. : Bupliore, or Oreille de Liivre, Fr. ; 



Hasenohrlien, Ger. 

 Derivation. From bous, an ox, and pleuron, a side ; from the supposed quality of swelling cattle 



that feed on some of the species of the genus. The name of Hare's Ear, which is preserved in the 



French and German, has reference to the shape of the leaves. 



Gen. Char. Calyx margin obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, strictly involute, 

 with a broad retuse point. Fruit compressed from the sides. Seed 

 teretely convex, flattish in front. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves as in the order. Smooth shrubs, natives of Europe and Africa, 

 and some of Asia. Only one hardy species is in cultivation in British gardens, 



& * 1. B. FRUTICO^SUM L. The shrubby Bupleurum, or Hare's Ear. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 343. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 301. ; Webb Iter Hispan., p. 44. 



Synonymes. Tenorm fruticbsa Spreng. in Schulles Syst. 6. p. 376. ; Z?uprestis fruticbsa Spreng. 



Mag. ; Seseli Eethiopicum Bauh. Pin. JG1- ; Seseli friitex Mor. Umb. 16. 

 Engravings. Sibth. Fl. Grasc.. t. 263. ; Wats. Dendr. Brit., t. 14. ; and our^gs. 905. and 900. 



Spec. Char. y <$c. Shrubby, erect- 

 branched. Leaves oblong, attenu- 

 ated at the base, coriaceous, 1- 

 nerved, quite entire, sessile. Leaves 

 of involucre oblong. Ribs of fruit 

 elevated, acute. Vitta? broad. Bark 

 of branches purplish. Leaves of a 

 sea-green colour. (Don's Mill.) A 

 neat sub-evergreen glaucous shrub. 

 Portugal, Spain, the South of France, 

 about Nice, Corsica, Sicily, Mauri- 

 tania, and Thessaly. Height 3ft. 

 to 4 ft. in a wild state ; 6 ft. in 

 British gardens. Introduced in 

 1596. Flowers yellow ; July and 

 August. 



905. B. frutic&sum. 



It is readily propagated by cuttings, 906 . B . frutic6sun] . 

 is of free growth in any dry cal- 

 careous soil, and is particularly vigorous on the sea 

 coast in Kent. The blue glaucous hue of its smooth shining foliage renders 

 it a desirable addition to every collection. If planted in an open airy situ- 

 ation, in a deep soil, not moist, and allowed to extend itself on everv side, it 

 would soon form a large hemispherical bush, highly ornamental during winter 

 from its evergreen foliage, and during summer from its bright yellow flowers. 



B. frvtescens L. (Cav. Icon., ii. t. 106. ; and our Jig. . in p. .) has 



slendei elongated branches, and linear-subulate, stiff, striated leaves. It is a 

 native of Mauritania in Spain, and also at Tarragona. 



B. gibraltdrica Lam. Diet., B. arborescens Jacq. (Ic. rar., ii. t. 351. ; and 

 our^g.2094. in p. 1 108.) grows to the height of 3 ft., and has fragrant flowers. 



