ENGLISH BOTANY. 



GENUS JF.-E R Y N G I U M. Linn. 



Calyx-limb of 5 lanceolate teeth. Petals connivent oblong- 

 obovate, notched, with an inflexed point as ong as ^the petals 

 Cremocarp cylindric-ovoid or sub-globular clothed with scales and 

 crowned by the calyx-teeth; mericarps without ridges or vitte. 



Herbs, often spinescent, with the leaves simple, frequently 

 palmately or pinnately ent or divided. Umbels simple reduced 

 to many-flowered heads, with spinous involucres and also with 

 spinous bracts beneath each flower. 



The nan, of this genus of plant, has reference to its •^f**™? 



disorders, and comes from the Greek words spvyyvov (erugguon), and E p W «. {eruuun). 



SPECIES I.-ERYNGIUM MARITIMUM. Un*. 



Plate DLXIX. 



Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XXI. Tab. 1849. 

 Billot, PL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2855. 



Radical leaves stalked, roundish, sub-cordate, not decurrent, 

 cut into 3 lobes at the apex, coarsely spinous-serrate, nndu a ed 

 upper stem-leaves sessile, sub - amplexicaul, palmately lobed. 

 Involucre of 5 to 7 ovate - rhomboidal spinous-serrate spmous- 

 pointed leaves, longer than the flowers ; bract of each separate 

 flower tricuspid with the lateral spines divaricate, as long a, the 



^^On sandy sea-shores. Rather scarce; rare in Scotland, and 

 not extending North of Forfarshire and Argyelshire, except in 

 the outlying locality of Shetland. 



En-land, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Rootstock creeping, emitting subterranean stolons *"*££ 

 18 inches high, thick, solid, trichotomously branched at the summit 

 and often with solitary alternate branches lower down Rascal 

 leaves on stalks 2 to 7 inches long; lamina 2 to 5 inches across 

 SSy Wohed. with the central lobe much nan-own- ha tic 

 lateral lobes, which overlap it; the margin of the leal thickened 

 cSffinous- lower stem-leaves shortly stalked, resembling the 

 £fon°es the others sessile and half embraomg Je ^ whxch 

 terminates in a shortly-stalked bead, below which ^ « ' 0T 



S Rnreadine branches, all from one point, which is surrounded >. 

 wffi of 3 llavet-these branches and the centra^ *£*£»*£ 

 primary umbel; heads of flowers at first globose, afterwards ovoid, 



