PL ex. cat. 45. UMBELLIFER^. 283. Crithm. 5ll 



Root torulose; stem 12 inches high, rather branched; 

 leaves glaucous, bald ; timlells terminal, hemispherical ; 

 umbellules crowded. — Herb in fruit pickled, used as sauce. 



XIX. 284, PIMPINELLA. Myrepsus. Burnet-saxifrage. 

 Involucriim and involucella ; calyx ; petals nearly 

 equal, bald, ovate, nicked; lacinule contracted, inflexed, 

 channelled, crenulated ; stigma ^ohxAax \ fruit ovate, round- 

 ish; akenium ovate, 5-ribbed; vallecules rather convex, 

 many vittated ; commisstires banded, band white, longitudi- 

 nal, in the middle; spermapodium bristlelike, 2-cut- — Um- 

 bells before flowering drooping. 



1 . Vimpinella minor. Small burnet-saxifrage. 

 Stem striated, bald; leaves pinnate, bald; leaflets of the 



root-leaves roundish, acutely toothed; of the stem-leaves 

 bipinnate, linear. 



Pimpinella saxifraga minor foliis sanguisorbae. Rail 5^n. 213, 2. 

 Bipinella, sive Saxifraga minor, Ger. em. 1044, 2. 

 Pimpinella saxifraga major nostras. Park. 946. 

 Pimpinella saxifraga, Lin.S. P. 378. > 



Pimpinella rotundifolia, Scopoli Cam. 344. 

 Tragoselinum Saxifraga, Mcench Meth. 99. 



Dry pastures ; perennial ; July and August. 

 Roof aromatic ; stem upright, rather rough ; Jlower- leaves 

 strapshape or ternate. 



2. Pimpinella nigra. Black burnet-saxifrage. 

 Stem streaked, pubescent; ieayei pinnate, pubescent; 



leaflets of the root-leaves nearly heartshape, cut, bluntly 

 toothed; of the stem-leaves bipinnate, linear. 



Pimpinella nigra, Willd. S. P. 1471. 

 Pimpinella Saxifraga s, Retz. Obs. 3,45. 



Dry pastures; perennial; July and August. 



Root aromatic; juice bluish j stem and leaves white, to- 

 mentose. — Root yields a blue essential oil, and communi- 

 cates a blue colour to water or spirit when they are distilled 

 from it. 



3. Pimpinella major. Great burnet-saxifrage. 

 Stem streaked, bald; leaves all pinnate, bald; leaflets 



ovate ; lobes serrated ; terminal leaflets 3-lobed. 



Pimpinella Saxifraga, Rail Syn. 213, 1 ; Ger. em. 1044, 1. 

 Pimpinella Saxifraga hircina major. Park. 947. 

 Pimpinella Saxifraga, Hudson Fl. Angl. 127. 

 Pimpinella magna, Lin, Mant, 2, 819. y 



