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57. SisoN. (Tab. III. f. 12.) Fruit ovate. Carpels with 5 

 ribs, and single vitt(B in the interstices. Cal.-teelh obsolete. Pet. 

 broadly obcordate, deeply notched and curved, with an inflected 

 point. (Involucres of few leaves: \)Sitt]a.\ subdimidiafe). — Name; 

 sizun, signifying in Celtic a running brook ; some of the plants 

 foi'merly placed in this genus delighting in such situations. 



58. ^GOPODIUM. (Tab. III. f. 13.) Fruit oblong. Carpels 

 with 5 slender ridges ; without viltfB. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet. 

 obcordate, with an inflexed point. (Involucre 0). — Named from 

 ct/^, ar/oc, a goat, and tcu;, afoot ; theleaves being cleft some- 

 thing like the foot of that animal. 



59. Caruji. (Tab. III. f. 14.) Fruit oblong. Carpels with 

 5 ribs, and single vittce in the interstices. Cal. obsolete. Pet. 

 obcordate, with an inflected point. — Name derived, according 

 to Pliny, from that of the country, Caria. 



60. BuNiuM. (Tab. III. f. 15.) Frjtit oblong, crowned with 

 the conical bases of the nearly straight styles. Carpels with 5 

 slender, obtuse ribs, and many vittce. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet. 

 obcordate, with an inflected point. (Involucre 0: ])Rrt\a.\ of fetv 

 leaves.) — Named from (3ouyO£, a hill, where the plant delights to 

 grow. 



61. PiMPiNELLA. (Tab. III. f. 16.) Friiit ovate, crowned 

 with the swollen base of the reflexed styles. Carpels with 5 

 slender ribs, the interstices furrowed, with many vitfee. Cal.- 

 teeth obsolete. Pet. obcordate, with an inflected point. (Invo- 

 lucres 0.) — Name altered, as Linnteus informs us, from bipen- 

 nula, or twice-pinnated, iu allusion to the divisions of the leaves. 



62. SiC3r. (Tab. III. f. 17.) i^r?/?^ ovate or globose, subdi- 

 dymous, crowned with the depressed base of the reflexed styles. 

 Carpels with 5, rather obtuse ribs, and many vittce in the inter- 

 stices. Cal.-teeth small or obsolete. Pet. obcordate, with an in- 

 flected point. ( Partial involucre of many leaves.) — Name ; ac- 

 cording to Theis, from the Celtic word, siw, tcater. 



63. BuPLEURUM. (Tab. III. f. 18.) Fruit ovato-oblong, 

 crowned with the depressed base of the styles. Carpels with 5, 

 more or less prominent ribs, with or without vittte. Cal.-teeth 

 obsolete. Pet. roundish, retuse with an involute point. (Leaves 

 undivided.) — Named from /3oy:, an ox, and '^rXevsm, a rib, in al« 

 lusion to the ribbed leaves of some species. 



B. Fruit not prichly nor beaked, ovate or elliptical, rounded on a 



transverse section. 



64. ffiNANTHE. (Tab. III. f. 19.) Fruit ovato-cylindrical, 

 crowned with the straight styles. Carpels more or less corky> 

 with 5 blunt, convex ribs, and single vittoi in the interstices. 



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