154 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. [cL. V. 



bluntish. Fruit egg-shaped, slightly compressed, hairy, ribbed, 

 crowned by the calyx and styles. Seeds egg-shaped, each with 

 five prominent ribs. Juncture close, as broad as the seeds. 

 Named after Athamas, a king of Thebes, or a mountain of the 

 same name in Thessaly. 160. 

 1. A. Libanotis. Mountain Stone-parsley. Leaves doubly pin- 

 nate, cut ; umbels hemispherical. Stem from one to three feet 



high : flowers white. Perennial : flowers in August : grows in 

 elevated chalky pastures in England : rare. Gogmagog Hills, 

 Cambridgeshire. Eng. Bot. vol. ii. pi. 198. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 88. 



459. 



76. PIMPINE'LLA. BURNET-SAXIFRAGE. 

 Flowers regular, perfect or direcious. Calyx none. Petals 

 five, superior, equal, inversely heart-shaped, with an inflected 

 point. Filaments hair-like, spreading, longer than the corolla ; 

 anthers roundish. Germen egg-shaped, a little compressed, 

 smooth, finely ribbed. Styles hair-like, somewhat spreading, 

 at first short, afterwards elongated, tumid and nearly globular 

 at the base ; stigmas obtuse. Fruit egg-shaped, crowned by 

 - the long styles. Seeds egg-shaped, each with five rather sharp 

 ribs. Name doubtful. 161. 



1. P. Saxifraga. Common Burnet-saxifrage. Leaves pinnate; 

 leaflets of the root-leaves roundish, of the uppermost with linear 



segments. Stems from one to two feet high, striated, downy. 



flowers white, small. Perennial : flowers in July and August : 

 grows in dry pastures : common. Eng. Bot. vol. vi. pi. 407. Eng. 

 Fl. vol. ii. p. 89. 460. 



2. P. mdgna. Greater Burnet-saxifrage. Leaves pinnate, leaf- 

 lets all egg-shaped, serrate, somewhat cut ; the terminal one three- 



lobed. Taller than the last, with white flowers. Perennial : 



flowers in July and August : grows in shady places and hedges in 

 several parts of England. Eng. Bot. vol. vi. pi. 408. Eng.Fl. vol. 

 ii. p. 90. 461. 



3. P. dioica. Dwarf Burnct- saxifrage. Leaves doubly pinnate, 

 with nearly linear leaflets ; umbels panicled ; flowers dioecious. 



About a foot high : flowers cream-coloured. Perennial : 



flowers in May and June : grows on rocks in England and Ireland : 

 rare. Eng. Bot. vol. xvii. pi. 1209. Eng. FL vol. ii. p. 90. 462, 



77. CNI'DIUM. PEPPER-SAXIFRAGE. 



Flowers nearly regular, imperfectly separated. Calyx none. 

 Petals five, superior, equal, inversely egg-shaped or heart- 

 shaped, with an inflected point. Filaments thread-shaped, 

 spreading, as long as the petals ; anthers roundish. Germen 

 egg-shaped, slightly compressed, ribbed. Styles at first very 

 short, afterwards elongated, spreading, cylindrical, tumid and 

 nearly hemispherical at the base ; stigmas blunt. Floral re- 

 ceptacle ring-shaped, thin, undulated. Fruit egg-shaped, a 

 little compressed, crowned with the floral receptacle and spread- 

 ing or recurved styles. Seeds egg-shaped, with five acute, 

 slightly winged ribs ; the interstices deep, concave. The an- 

 cient name of an unknown plant. 162. 

 , 1. C. Sikms. Meadoio Pepper- saxifrage. Leaflets deeply pinna- 



