UMBELLIFEK^:. 1 7.; 



"West-chcstcr, Kent ; and at Roosebeck, in Low Furness, Lanca- 

 shire. 



[England.] Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem erect or ascending, angular, furrowed, corymboselv 

 branched, G inches to 1 foot high. Leaves with few distant spine-like 

 segments. Umbel rays 5 to 8, thickened and dilated towards the 

 apex in fruit. Leaves of the involucel broadly lanceolate, spinous, 

 about as long as the flowers. Male flowers stalked, with the calyx- 

 teeth radiant, their pedicels and calvx-teeth at length conniv'ent 

 round the solitary central fertile flower, the ovary of which is im- 

 mersed in the hollow dilated apex of the umbel ray. Cremocarp 

 ovoid - acuminate, crowned by the 5 subulate calvx-teeth, the 

 conical stylopods, and the short erect stvles ; one of the mericarps 

 often abortive. Plant finely pubescent, glaucous. 



Oi this species I have only seen foreign specimens. 



Sea Prickly-Samphire. 

 GENUS XXXVL-Q O N I U M. Linn. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obovate, slightly notched, with a 

 very short inflexed lobe. Cremocarp ovate, globose, laterally com- 

 pressed, smooth ; columella free, with the apex 2-cleft ; mericarps 

 with 5 prominent somewhat winged crimped equal ridges, the lateral 

 ones marginal; interstices without vittaj. Albumen of the seed with 

 a deep narrow furrow on the face next the columella. Involucre 

 and involucel of 3 to 5 leaves. 



Herbs with ternate-pinnately decompound leaves and compound 

 umbels of white flowers, the interior ones often male. 



The name of this genus of plants is said by Linnaeus to originate in the words 

 •tows (kon%s), or carta (konia), dust or powder ; but the application of the term ia 

 not evident. 



SPECIES I.-CONIUM MACULATUM. Linn. 

 Tlate DCXXIX. 

 BUM, PL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2473. 



Involucel dimidiate, of 3 to 5 ovate-lanceolate subscarious leaves, 

 shorter than the rays of the umbellule. 



Roadsides, waste places, and open parts of woods. Rather 

 common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 

 Stem erect, 2 to 6 feat high or more, striate, smooth, glabrous, 



