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XXXVIII. UMBELLIFERiE. 



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■)r imperfectly compound. Fimit without tnttoi, 

 Albiimen solid. (Gen, 1 — 3.) 



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Fruit laterally compressed. 

 1. Hydrocotyle Linn. White-rot. (Tab. I. f. 1.) 



Fruit of 2 flat orbicular carpels, each with 5, more or less dis- 

 tinct, filiform ribs. CaL-teeth obsolete. Pet. ovate (Leaves 

 simple). — Named from vSwp^ water^ and icorvXrt^ a cup or vase^ 

 the common species growing in wet places and having orbicular 

 leaves depressed in the middle and stalked in the centre. 



L H. vulgaris L. (common W. or Marsh'-Penjiywort); leaves 

 peltate orbicular somewhat lobed and crenate, heads of about 

 5 flowers. E. B. t. 751. 



Bogs, marshes, and banks of lakes, frequent. 1\.. 5 — 8. — Stems 



creeping, producing from their joints petiolate leaves and simple 



Jiower- stalks y which are much shorter than the petioles. Flowers often 



with a reddish tinge. 



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Fruit emarginate at the base. 



Transverse section of fruit nearly rounds 



2. Sanicula Linn. Sanicle. (Tab. I. f. 2.) 



Fruit ovate, densely clothed with hooked prickles. Cal-teetli 

 leafy. Pet. erect, obovate, with long inflected points. (Some 

 flowers abortive.) — !N"ame derived from sano^ to heal; because 

 this plant was once supposed " to make whole and sound all 

 inward hurts and outward wounds." 



l. S. Europce'a L. (Wood S.) ; lower leaves palmate with the 

 lobes trifid inclse-serrate, fertile flowers all sessile. E. B. t. 98. 



Woods and thickets, frequent. 7/.. 6, 7. — Leaves mostly radical, 

 finely serrate, almost ciliated. Heads of flowers small, white ; there 

 are often sterile flowers which are shortly stalked. 



[_Astrantia major L,, observed in one or two places, has no claim to 

 be considered a native.] 



3. Eryngium Linn. Eryngo. (Tab. I. f. 3 ) 



Fruit ovate, clothed with chaffy scales or bristles. Cal.-teeth 

 leafy. Pet. erect, oblong, with long inflected points. (Invo- 

 lucre of many leaves. Flowers in a compact head upon a scaly 

 receptacle.) — ISTame: epvyywv of Dioscorides. 



1. E. maritimum L. (Sea E. or Sea- Holly) : radical leaves 

 I'oundish plaited spinous stalked, upper ones lobed palmate 

 amplexicaul rigid, involucral leaves 3-lobed longer than the 

 heads, scales of the receptacle 3-cleft. E. B. t. 718. 



Sandy shores of England, frequent. Scotland, chiefly on the west 

 coast. %, 7, 8 Whole plant stiff and rigid, glaucous. Leaves 



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