PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Ervnoiuni 



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ones stalked, largest, and most numerous. FL terminal, 

 blue or whitish, inodorous, encomi)assed by largo, leaiy, 

 pinnatifid, spinous hracieas, longer than the ovate head. 



1 . E. maritimnm. Sea Eryngo. Sea Holly. 



Radical leaves roundish, plaited, spinous. Heads stalked* 

 Scales of the receptacle three-cleft. 



E. maritimum. Linn. Sp. PI. 337. Tf'illd. v. 3. 1358. FL Br. 288; 



Engl. But. v.]0.t.7\8. IVoodv. Mai Bot. L 1 02. Hoole. ScoL 8/ . 



FL Dan. t. 87;'). Bank. Pin. 386. 

 E. marinum. Rrdi S[/n. 222. Matih. J'algr. v. 2. 42. f. Camer. 



Epit. AAS. f. Go: Em. Ilfi2./. Dod. Pempt. 730./. Lob. Ic. 



V.2. 2\./Bauh. Hist, r.3.86./. 



On the sandy sea ."^bore. 



Perennial. Jubj^ August. 



Roots very long, creeping, cylindrical, whitish, of a pungent aro- 

 matic flavour, with a mixture of mucilage. Llerb smooth, glau- 

 cous, with an elegant blue tint. Stem a foot high, round, 

 branched, leafy, furrowed. Leaves ribbed and veiny, bordered 

 M'lth sharp spinous teeth; the radical ones stalked, 3-lobed. FL 

 solitary, terminal, with broad pinnatifid hracteas. Petals bright 

 blue, erroneously drawn reflexed in EngL Bot. 



The roots, reckoned stimulating and restorative, are either sold 

 candied, or administered in decoctions, variously prepared. 



2. E. campestre . Field Eryiigo. 



Leaves clasjiing the stem ; radical ones twice or thrice pin- 

 natifid. Scales of the receptacle undivided. 



E. campestre. Linn. Sp. PL 337. Willd. v. 2. 1358. FL Br. 289. 



EngL But. V. 1 . t. 57. Winch Guide v. 1. 26. Jacq. Austr. i. 155. 



Fl. Dan. t.bo-\. Dod. Pempt. 730. f. 

 E. n. 735. IlalL Hist. v. 1. 322. 

 E. vulgare. Bail Sijn. 222. Bauh. Hist. v. 3.85. f. 

 E. mediterraneum. Ger. Em. 1162./. 

 E. montanum, sive campestre. Matth. Talgr. v. 2.41. f. Camer. 



Epit; 447./. 

 Eryngium. Fuclis. Hint. 296./ 



In waste £!,round, especially near the sea, but rare. 



On a rock which you descend from Plymouth to the ferry, going 

 to Cornwall. Ray. On the shore called Friar Goose, near 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Lawson. Also on St. Peter's quay, 

 Northumberland. Mr. Winch. By the old Roman way railed 

 Watling-street, opposite Brookhall, near Daventry, as men- 

 tioned by Ray on the authority of Mr. Thornton. Rev. Mr. Wood. 

 Near the Devil's Point, at Stonehouse, Plymouth. Mr. Eduard 

 Forster, 



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