162 ENGLISH B0TA2JY. 



ridges with numerous retrorsely echinate subulate ascending- 

 Bpreading spines, nearly as long as the diameter of the fruit. 



A weed in cornfields. Very rare. About Langport, Somerset. 

 Formerly abundant in Cambridgeshire, but believed to be now 

 extinct there. Hudson gives about Crooks Easton, Hampshire. 

 Messrs. Webb and Colman have seen dried specimens collected in 

 Hertfordshire, and Mr. Motley says 3 specimens were gathered in 

 Carmarthenshire. It has also been reported from Bedfordshire. 



England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem erect, 6 to 18 inches high. Leaves very shortly stalked, 

 oblong-triangular in outline, with the leaflets f to 2 inches long, 

 parallel-sided. Kays of the umbel f to 1 inch long, thickly clothed 

 with very sbort hairs, and sparingly with large cartilaginous ascend- 

 ing ones. Elowers radiant, ^ inch across, pink. Petals roundish- 

 obovate, notched, with an inflcxed lobe. Cremocarp \ to f inch 

 long, olive ; spines brownish-purple, with small slightly rcflexedor 

 spreading short bristles. Plant hispid, dull-green. 



Great Bur-Parsley. 



French, Caucalide d, Larges Feuilles. 



Sub-Genus III.— TORILIS. Hoffm. 

 Calyx of 5 small lanceolate teeth. Cremocarp ovoid, laterally 

 compressed, sub-didymous. Mericarps with the primary ridges 

 filiform, hispid, the secondary ones obsolete, but the whole of the 

 interstices clothed with spines, at least in the exterior fruits. Invo- 

 lucre of 1 to 5 leaves, or absent. 



SPECIES III.-CAUC A LIS INFEST A Curtis. 

 Tl.vte DCXIX. 



Billot, Fl. Gall et Germ. Exsicc. No. 30. 



Torilis infesta, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot ed. v. p. 152. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 



p. 188. 

 T Helvetica, Gmel. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 22. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 



ed. ii. p. 345. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Ft. Vol. I. p. C75. D. C. Prod. Vol. IV. 



p. 219. 



Stem erect, corymbosely branched, usually with numerous short 

 divaricate branches, striate, sparingly hairy in the upper part, with 

 the hairs reversed and adpressed. Leaves bipinnate or pinnate with 



