138 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



green above, pale beneath, glabrous in all the British specimens I 

 have seen, but frequently pubescent in the continental forms. 



Mountain Meadow-Saxifrage. 



French, Seseli Libanotide. German, lleiliourz Sesel. 



GENUS XXL—L IGUSTICUM. Linn. 



Calyx-limb obsolete or 5-toothed. Petals obovate, notched, with 

 an inflexed point. Cremocarp elliptical-ovoid, smooth, not com- 

 pressed ; columella free, bipartite ; mericarps with 5 prominent 

 nearly equal-keeled or slightly winged ridges, the lateral ones mar- 

 ginal ; interstices each with several vittae. Involucres various. 



Plants of various habit, with white flowers. 



The name of this genus of plants is taken from the place where the species grow 

 abundantly — Li gum. 



SPECIES I.-L IGUSTICUM SCOTICUM. Linn. 



Plate DCIII. 



Haloscias Scoticum, Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. pp. 23, ISO. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 

 p. 149. 



Lower leaves biternate, with rhomboidal or ovate crenate-serrate 

 leaflets ; upper stem-leaves ternate. Calyx-teeth triangular. Cre- 

 mocarp elliptical-ovoid, with the ridges very prominent, keeled. 

 Seed free in the interior of the mericarps. 



On rocky and sandy sea-shores. Eather local, but occurs in 

 most of the Scottish counties as far North as Orkney and Shetland ; 

 rare in England and apparently confined to the Northumberland 

 coast ; on the East coast of Ulster, Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Piootstock branched, thick, with a dark-brown wrinkled rind. 

 Stem erect, 9 inches to 3 feet, furrowed and striate, hollow, slightly 

 branched. Leaves mostly radical, on long petioles, sheathing at 

 the base, ternate, with stalked leaflets; leaflets divided into 3, or 

 tripartite, 1 to 3 inches long, the ultimate leaflets or segments vary- 

 ing from rhomboidal-ovate to oblong-rhomboidal, slightly lobed, 

 and very bluntly serrated in the apical half; stem-leaves few, the 

 upper ones on very short dilated petioles, ternate, with the leaflets 

 3-cleft, in other respects similar to the root-leaves. Umbels of 8 to 

 12 rays, 1 to 2 inches long, spreading in flower, contracted in fruit ; 

 pedicels I -to £ inchloug. Involucre of few and involucel of numerous 



