UMBELLIFER^. 123 



2. C. verticillatum, Koch. Whorled Caraway. Leaflets all 

 capillary in short whorled segments. Br. Fl. 1. p. 127. Siurn 

 vertirillatum, E. Fl. v. ii. p. 59. Sison verticillatum, Linn. 

 E. Bot. t. 395. 



Moist meadows. Marsh near Lane Bridge, Killarney and other 

 places in Kerry. Marshes in the district called Crantnore, near Bel- 

 fast ; Mr. Templeton. Salt marshes below Colerairie, County of 

 Derry ; Mr. D. Moore. Fl. May, June. 1. Leaves mostly ra- 

 dical ; a long 1 common petiole bears a number of opposite multifid 

 capillary leaves, whose spreading makes them appear whorled. Stem 

 a foot high, slender. Umbels few, terminal. Involucre very small. 



17. ^GOPODIUM. Linn. Gout-weed. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals obcordate, with an inflexed point. Fruti 

 laterally compressed, oblong. Carpels with 5 filiform ridges, of 

 which the lateral ones are marginal. Interstices without vittcp. 

 Seed tereti-convex, plane in front. Universal and partial in- 

 volucres 0. Differs from Carum only in the absence of vitfce. 

 Name from a<, 0*709, a goat, and TTOV?, foot : the leaves 

 being cleft something like a goat's foot 



Pentandiia. Digynia. 



1. IE. Pcdagraria, Linn. Gout-weed, or Herb-Gerarde. Br. 

 FL I. p. 127. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 77. E. Bot. t. 940. 



Gardens and wet places ; not very common near Dublin, but very 

 plentiful near Belfast and other parts in the north. Often a trouble- 

 some weed in gardens. Fl. May, June. 1. A foot and a half high. 

 Radical leaves twice ternate, upper ones ternate ; leaflets ovate, acu- 

 minate, unequally serrated. The creeping root is pungent and aro- 

 matic. 



18. TRINIA. Hoffm. Honewort. 



Calyx obsolete. Petals of the barren plant lanceolate, sube- 

 marginate, with a contracted involute point, of the fertile 

 ovate, with a short inflexed point. Fruit laterally compressed, 

 ovate. Carpels with five prominent, filiform, equal ridges, of 

 which the lateral ones are marginal. Interstices without vittce 

 or nearly so ; but with a distinct canal under each ridge. 

 Seed gibbous, convex. Involucres various. The two kinds 

 of petals, the dioecious plants, and the vittse or evident canals 

 beneath the ridges, together with a peculiar habit, constitute 

 this a very distinct genus. Hook. Named in honour of Dr. 

 C. B. Trinius, a learned Botanist of St. Petersburg!), Author 

 of a Species Graminum, &c. Penlandria. Digynia. 



1. T. glaberrima, Hoffm. Glabrous Honewort. Grabrous; 



leaves tripinnate ; leaflets linear uniform ; involucre none. Br. 



Fl. 1. p. 128. Pimpinella dioica, E. Fl. v. ii. p. 90. Jx Bot 



t, 1209. 



