28 ON SEEDLINGS 



Cotyledons spathulate, obtuse or emarginate, pale or grass-green 

 7 mm. long, 8'5 mm. wide, glabrous. 



Stem herbaceous and elongated when about to flower. 



Leaves simple, radical andcauline, alternate, exstipulate, sessile, 

 dilated and sheathing at the base, glabrous, grass-green and lucid. 



FIG. 407. Eryngium paniculatum. Nat. size. 



No. 1. Small, spathulate-rotund, acutely dentate. 

 No. 2. Small, oblong-elliptic, acutely spiny-serrate. 

 No. 3. Spathulate, acutely spiny- serrate. 



No. 4. Spathulate-obovate, acutely spiny-serrate, and sparsely 

 setose between the serratures. 



No. 5. Oblong-elliptical, acute, otherwise like No 4. 



Eryngium gigantemn, M. Bleb. 



Hypocotyl very stout, fleshy, colourless, tapering downwards. 



Cotyledons foliaceous, petiolate, glabrous ; lamina oval, minutely 

 emarginate, trinerved and reticulate, grass-green, shining, 6 cm, 

 long, 1 cm. wide ; petiole slightly grooved above, T6 cm. long. 



Stem herbaceous and developed when about to flower. 



Leaves simple, radical and cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petio- 

 late, glabrous, bright green, shining, five-nerved and reticulate ; 

 petioles subterete, channelled above, dilated and clasping at the base. 



No. 1. Suborbicular, cordate at the base, crenate. 



No. 2. Broadly cordate, very obtuse, crenate, 



Nos. 3 and 4. Cordate, subelongate, very obtuse, unequally 

 crenate. 



Ultimate leaves, both the radical and lower cauline ones, cordate, 

 obtuse or subacute, irregularly crenate-dentate, with long petioles. 

 Middle cauline, cordate-elongate, upper ones cordate, and both 

 sessile, amplexicaul, deeply and acutely spiny-serrate. 



