92 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Bupleurum. 



Peucedanum Silaus. Linn. Sp. PI. 3b4. M'illd. v. i. 1406. Fl. 



Br. 305. EngL Bot. v. 30. t. 2142. Mart. Rust. t. 128. Hook. 



Scot. 88. Jacq. Austr. t. 15. Ehrh. PL Off.373. 

 P. n. 797. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 3.54. 

 Seseli pratense. Bauh. Pin. 1 62. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 58. Dalech. 



Hist. 7 32. f. 

 S. pratense nostras. Raii Syn.2\G. Moris. v. 3. 287. sect. 9. t. 6./. 10. 

 S. pratense monspelliensium. Lob. Ic. 73S.f. 

 Saxifraga anglicana, facie Seseli pratensis. Ger. Em. 1047./. 

 Meadow Saxifrage. Pet. H. Brit. t. 28./. 5. 



In rather moist meadows and pastures. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root spindle-shaped. Herb smooth, dark green. Stem erect, 

 branched, leafy, round, furrowed, solid, tough, from 1 to 2 feet 

 high. Leaves doubly pinnate ; leajlets elliptic-lanceolate, mi- 

 nutely pointed, entire ; either undivided, or separated, almost 

 to the base, into 2 or 3 segments, of the same shape and mag- 

 nitude. Umbels on long stalks, erect, of several unequal general 

 rays, those of the partial umbels much more numerous. General 

 bracteas white-edged, linear, 1 or 2, rarely 3, most frequently 

 none at all ; when present, lasting, not deciduous ; partial ones 

 several, of the same shape, equal to the partial rays. H. yel- 

 lowish or greenish-white, with a thin Jioral receptacle, at first 

 green and erect, but as the fruit advances, spreading, depressed, 

 confluent with the broad convex bases of the styles, and assum- 

 ing their reddish colour. Fruit roundish-ovate. 



The whole plant, being fetid when bruised, is supposed in some 

 parts of Norfolk to give a bad flavour to milk and butter ; but 

 cattle certainly do not eat it ; except accidentally, or in small 

 quantities, sufficient perhaps to have the effect in question. 

 Where this herb abounds in pastures, it may be found partially 

 cropped, though generally left almost entire. 



Peucedanum alsaticum of Linnaeus, having a calyx, and a flattened 

 bordered fruit, is really of that genus, and no Cnidium, though 

 resembling our present species in habit. 



166. BUPLEURUM. Hare's-ear. 



Linn.Gen.l2D. Juss. 224. Fl.Br.292. Sprang. Prodr. 38. Tourn. 



t. 163. Lam. 1. 189. Gfsrtn. t.22. 

 Odontites. Sprerig. Prodr. 33. 



Fl. all regular, perfect and prolific. Cal. none. Pet. 5, 

 equal, broadish wedge-shaped, very short, with a broad 

 involute point. Filam. thread-shaped, spreading rather 

 beyond the corolla. AnfJi. roundish. Germcn inferior, 

 ovate-oblong, furrowed. Sti/les very short, spreading, not 

 extending beyond the circumference of their broad, tu- 

 mid, rather depressed, bases. Stigmas simple, minute. 



