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42. CORIANDRUM. Cal. of 5 teeth. Pet. obcordate with an 

 inflexed point, outer ones radiant and bifid. Fr. globose. 

 Carp, scarcely separating, the primary ridges obsolete, the 

 4 secondary conspicuous prominent keeled. Interstices 

 without vittse. Commissure with 2 vittse. 



Suborder I. Orthosperma. Tribe I. Hydrocotylece. 



1. HYDROCOTYLE Linn. Penny-wort. 



1. H. vulgaris (L.) ; 1. peltate nearly circular doubly crenate, 

 heads of 5 fl., fr. emarginate below. E. B. 751. Fl. and fr. 

 almost sessile. Umbels or rather heads often proliferous in the 

 centre and bearing a second head. St. creeping extensively. L. 

 upon stalks which are considerably longer than the peduncles. 

 Bogs and marshy places. P. V. VIII. 



Tribe II. Saniculea. 



2. SANICULA Linn. Sanicle. 



1. S. europcea (L.) ; lower 1. palmate 3 5-lobed, lobes trifid 

 unequally serrate, fertile fl. sessile, barren fl. slightly stalked. 

 E. E. 98. Umbels many, capitate, in an irregular slightly 

 umbellate panicle. Styles persistent, reflexed. St. ascending, 

 about a foot high. Woods and thickets. P. VI. VII. 



3. ASTRANTIA Linn. 



fl. A. major (L.); lower 1. palmately 5 7-fid, lobes oblong 

 acute unequally incise-serrate, inv.-l. entire, cal.-teeth ovate-ian- 

 ceolate narrowed to an acute point. St. 29. 8. Inv. equalling 

 the umbel, usually straw-coloured. Woods in hilly districts. 

 Between Whitbourne and Malvern. Above Stokesay Castle, near 

 Ludlow. In the latter place Mr. Borrer considers it to have been 

 introduced " ages ago." P. VI. VIII. E. 



Tribe III. Eryngiea. 



4. ERYNGIUM Linn. Eryngo. 



1. E. maritimum (L.); radical L roundish plaited spinous 

 stalked, upper 1. amplexicaul palmately lobed, inv.-l. 3-lobed 

 spinous exceeding the heads, scales of the receptacle 3-lobed. 

 E. E. 718. St. 1 foot or more in height, branched, leafy, iigid, 



