74 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Cumberland; Westmoreland; Mugdoch Castle, near Glasgow ; 
and Cleish Castle, Kinross-shire. I possess specimens collected by 
Mr. W. H. Campbell at “Saline, Fife ;’’ but as Saline is very near 
Cleish, it may be the same locality as the previous. 
[England, Scotland]. Perennial. Spring. 
Rootstock creeping, branched, scaly at the tips of the divisions, 
which produce either stems or radical leaves, but not both toge- 
ther from the same point. Stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high, with 
1 or 2 leaves above the middle. Leaves stalked, biternate ; leaflets 
stalked, 14 to 3 inches long, ovate-acuminate, very faintly serrated, 
the serratures terminating in short bristles ; base cordate, with the 
lobes equal in the terminal leaflet of each triad; unequal, having 
the outer lobe much the larger in the two lateral ones. Peduncle 
terminal, but appearing to he lateral, as the leaf-stalk rather than 
the peduncle seems to be a continuation of the stem. Flowers 
about inch in diameter, drooping in a lax panicle with short lateral 
branches. Sepals brownish-purple, the two whorls, one directly 
within the other, spreading in the form of a cross. Petals (nec- 
taries of many authors) yellow, lying within the sepals, and rather 
shorter than those of the nS whorl. Stamens 4 in number, 
connivent. Fruit ovoid, about + inch long. Seeds rather few, 
large, oblong-ovoid, maroon colour, the enlarged raphe resembling 
an arillus. Leaves pale green, glabrous. Peduncle and pedicels 
with scattered spreading reddish hairs terminating in glands, and 
there is also a small tuft of similar hairs in the axils of the forks of 
the petiole. 
This plant is usually described as destitute of radical leaves, 
which probably means that there are no leaves produced at the 
base of the stem, for the branches of the rhizome which do not 
produce stems certainly send up radical leaves. These cannot be 
considered as barren stems terminating in a leaf, as the base of the 
leaf-stalk on the flowering stems is furnished with small purplish- 
brown stipules with free “auricles, and there is nothing similar to 
this to be found on the stalks of the root-leaves w hich might lead 
us to consider their leaf-stalk composed partly of stem and partly 
of petiole. 
Alpine Barren Wort. 
French, Le Chapeau @ Bvéque. German, Bischofsmitze 
The generic name is derived from ext (epi), upon, and Media. Itis said by Dioscovides 
to grow in Media, in Asia Minor. 
