PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Crithmum. 73 



and styles. Seeds elliptic-oblong, convex, with a thick 

 coriaceous coat, each having 5 tumid, somewhat wrinkled, 

 equidistant ribs, 2 of them marginal ; the interstices nar- 

 row, flat. 



Perennial, somewhat fleshy, herbs. Leaves repeatedly ter- 

 nate, with thick, acute, linear or lanceolate, entire leaflets. 

 Umbels terminal, stalked, compound, many-rayed, with 

 several, general and partial, bracteas. Fl. white. 



Our British Crithmum, together with Cachrys Libanotis of 

 Linnaeus, which is unquestionably of the same genus, 

 constitutes the 2d section of Professor Sprengel's Cachrys. 

 I think they are best kept separate, whatever may become 

 oi Cachrys sicula, Linn, figured in Fl, Grcsc. t. 278, which 

 is nearly allied to them in genus, but \hQJlonxers are yel- 

 low, an important circumstance as to habit, and the seeds 

 have very remarkably toothed wings. This fine plant 

 ought perhaps to form a genus. The corky, smooth, 

 turgid frtdt of a real Cachrys is essentially different from 

 it, as well as from our Crithmum ,- and I believe other 

 marks of distinction will be found in the Jlowers. The 

 styles are long and slender, with a broad depressed base; 

 the calyx scarcely any ; many of the^owers imperfect, or 

 abortive. The woolly seeds of some ought not, perhaps, 

 to cause a generic separation ; but I do not presume here 

 to decide this point, which does not concern the British 

 Flora. 



\. C. maritimiwi. Sea Sampire. 

 Leaflets lanceolate, fleshy. Bracteas ovate. 



C. maritimum. Linn. Sp. PI. 354. JVilld. v. 1 . 1408. Fl. Br. 306. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. <. 819. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 12. 16. Hooh. 



Scot. 89. Jacq. Hort. Find. v. 2. 88. t. 187. 

 C. marinum. Raii Syn. 217. Ger. Ein. 533. f. 

 C. primutn. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 444./. Camer. Epit. 272./. 

 C. multis. sive Foeniculum marinum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 194./. 



Moris. V.3. 289. sect. 9. t. 7.f. 1. 

 Foeniculum marinum, sive Empetrum, aut Calcifraga. Lob. Ic. 



392. f. 

 Crethamus. Cord. Hist. 20\.;f. 

 Creta marina. Lonic. Kreuterb. 271. C./. 

 Sampire. Pet. H. Brit. t. 24. f. 8. 



On rocky sea shores and cliffs. 

 Perennial. August. 



Root branched, creeping extensively. Herb glaucous, smooth, 

 fleshy, salt and pungently aromatic in flavour. Stems about a 



