352 BUPLEURUM. [class v. order ii. 



Tribe 3. Ammine^. Fruit evidently compressed at the sides, and 

 mostly double. Carpel with five primary ridges, filiform, rarely 

 slightly winged, the lateral ones forming the margin of the same 

 size as the others. Albumen rounded, or slightly gibbous at the 

 back, in front plain or rounded. Umbel perfect, compound. 



GENUS XLIX. BUPLEURUM Linn. Hare's Ear. 



Gen. Char. Calyx limb obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, broad, 

 closely rolled inwards, the sides depressed. Fruit laterally, 

 compressed, crowned by the recurved styles and depressed disk. 

 Carpels with five equal winged acute filiform or obsolete ridges, 

 the lateral ones forming the margin. Channels with or without 

 vittce. Albumen plain in front. Involucre various. Flowers 

 yellow. Leaves undivided. — Named from /Sou?, an ox; and 

 TirXev^ov, a rib ; in allusion to the remarkably ribbed leaves of some 

 of the species. 



* Annual. 



1. B. Odonti'tes, Linn. (Fig. 415.) narrow leaved Hare^ Ear. 

 Stem branched, widely spreading; leaves linear, lanceolate, three 

 ribbed ; general and partial involucre of four or five lanceolate seg- 

 ments, with rigid points, each three ribbed, and longer than the umbels. 



English Botany, t. 2468. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 93. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 130. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 120. — B. arista- 

 turn, Bartling. — Odontites lutea, Spreng. 



Boot small tapering. Stem from one to five inches high, smooth, 

 somewhat angular, leafy, branched, and spreading. Leaves linear, 

 lanceolate, sessile, with an acuminated point, and three nerved, from 

 one to two inches long, the lower ones tapering into a footstalk, pale, 

 yellowish, green. Umbels small, lateral and terminal, erect, or spread- 

 ing, enveloped in the lanceolate leaves of the involucre, those of the 

 general one three or five ribbed, the partial ones mostly three, longer 

 than the MmZ»e/s, the ^efZimc/e* very short. Calyx without any limb. 

 P<'^«/s small, yellow. Stamens with slender ^/arnen^s, bearing rather 

 large yellow anthers. Styles very short, from a depressed base. 

 Fruit ovate, compressed on the sides with five indistinctly elevated 

 ridges, the two marginal ones of each carpel united, appearing until 

 separated as one. 



Habitat. — Rocks in the neighbourhood of Torquay, Devonshire ; 

 rare. 



Annual ; flowering in July. 



This little plant is frequent on (he Continent, especially in the 



