GLOBULARIACE^]. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 268. 



GLOBULARIA. 



Flowers capitate, surrounded by an imbricated involucre. 

 Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Upper lip of the corolla 2-fid, lower 

 3-parted. Fruit seed-like, enclosed within the calyx. Recep- 

 tacle coriaceous. 



972. G. A\ypumLinn.sp. pi. 139. DC. Fl.fr. n. 2333. Lam. 

 encycl. ii. 724-. R. and S. ii. 38. ( Garid. Aix 210. t. 42.) 

 South of Europe, on the coast of the Mediterranean, on rocks. 



Stem 2 feet high, and more, erect, shrubby, branched, brittle. Leaves 

 evergreen, small, myrtle-like, hard, lanceolate, 3-toothed and entire. 

 Corolla pale blue, in terminal heads which are much like those of 

 Scabiosa sucdsa. Calyx covered with white hairs. Corolla 1-lipped, 

 trifid. A bitter, drastic purgative, once supposed to be the 'AXwTrov 

 of Dioscorides, and hence called Frutex terribilis. The Alypum how- 

 ever had the amp^a WQ 67rt0u/tou, and was therefore in all probability 

 some Euphorbia. 



973. G. vulgaris Linn. sp. pi. 139. Willd. i. 540. Lam. 

 encycl. ii. 730. R. and S. ii. 39. ( Cam. hort. 1 8. t. 7. Moris, 

 hist. iii. t. 15. f. 46.) Hills and dry meadows in the middle 

 of Europe. 



Stem herbaceous. Radical leaves spathulate-lanceolate, somewhat 

 emarginate, or 3-toothed, much shorter than the petiole; with the 

 middle rib prolonged into a mucro ; cauline lanceolate. Flowers blue, 

 in heads solitary at the point of a simple leafy scape. Two of the 

 stamens longer than the others. Purgative like the last ; and has 

 been employed as a resolvent and vulnerary according to Lemery. 



974. G. nudicaulis L. has similar properties. 



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