PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Echinophora. 37 



Sideritis tertia Dioscoridis. Column. Phytob. 71. t.72. ed 2 59 

 t.U. 



In woods and groves abundantly. 



Perennial. May. 



Root of numerous, black, tufted, rather fleshy fibres. Siems ascend- 

 ing, about a foot long, some much shorter ; furrowed, slightly 

 branched alternately. Leaves chiefly radical, stalked, with 3 

 very deep, 3-cleft, jagged and serrated lobes ; those of the stem 

 alternate, nearly sessile ; all of a deep shining green, veiny. 

 Umbels numerous, capitate, in an irregular, twice compound, 

 partly umbellate, panicle. Fl. cream-coloured, with an occa- 

 .sional stain of red ; the barren ones_, in the middle of each um- 

 bel, most numerous. 



The herb is bitter, with an acrid, somewhat aromatic, pungency. 

 Its vulnerary qualities are no longer believed. 



138. ECHINOPHORA. Piickly-Sampire. 



Linn. Gen. 129. J«ss.225. H.Br. 293. Tourn.t. 423. Lam. t. 190. 



Fl. separated; those of the circumference numerous, barren; 

 the outermost irregular, often neuter; central solitary, 

 fertile. Cal. superior, of 5, nearly equal, spinous-pointed, 

 rigid, permanent leaves. Pei. in the outermost flowers 

 luiequal, each unequally heart-shaped, from the strong 

 inflexion of the jagged point ; in the rest of the barren 

 ones equal, inflexed ; in the central one wanting. Filam,. 

 in the fl. of the circiunference only, longer than the petals, 

 thread-shaped, inflexed, equal. Anth. of 2 roundish lobes. 

 Germ, inferioi-, turbinate, in the fl. of the circumfe- 

 renceabortive ; in the central one imbedded in the base 

 of the flower. Styles erect, somewhat unequal ; in the 

 central fl. longest, awl-shaped, a little recurved, perma- 

 nent. Stigmas obtuse. Fruit ovate, imbedded in the 

 enlarged receptacle, constituting a hardened prickly coat. 

 Seed solitary, ovate-oblong. 



Herbage very rigid, somewhat downy. Stem round, furrowed, 

 much branched, leafy. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, with 

 acute or spinotis segments. Umbels compound, terminal, 

 with spinous-pointed, general and partial, bracteas, the 

 latter finall}^ confluent and hai'dened. Fruit globose, va- 

 riously armed. 



fl, Yt. spinosa. Sea Prickly-Sampire. SeaParsnep. 



Leaves with spinous, awl-shaped, entire segments. 



E. spinosa. Linn. Sp. PL 3AA. mild. v. I. 1379. Fl. Br. 293. 



