174 



XXXVIII. UMBELLIFER^. 



[_Pimpi7iella. 



] 



flexuosum With. ( 



., sessile with linear segments, general involucre or 1— 2-leavp/ 

 ^^'^ ^ styles erect with a conical base. E, B. t. 988. ' 



Woods and pastures, frequent. 2/.. 5, 6. 

 tuher, much souglit for by children and pigs. 

 ilexuo.se. Radical leaves triternate. 



Root 



a 



solitary 

 Stem solitary, erect 

 ,., , , Fruit oblong, moderately ribbed' 



a little narrower upwards, crowned with tbe straight styles which 

 have conical, elongated, tumid bases. ' 



13. P1MPIKELX.A Linn. 



Burnet-Saxifrage. (T 



Fruit ovate, crowned with the swollen base of the reflexed 

 styles. Carpels with 5 slender ribs, the interstices furrowed 

 with 2—3 long linear vittce .- suture with vitt(E. Cal -teeth 

 obsolete. Pet obcordate, with an inflected point. (Invo- 

 lucres 0.) — Kame altered, as Linnaeus informs us, from bipen- 

 nula, or twice-pinnate, in allusion to the division of the leaves 



ifraga L. ( 



radical leaves pinnate 



their leaflets roundish sharply serrate or cut, those of the stem 



bipmnate with linear segments, stems terete, fruit glabrous. 

 E, B. t. 407- 



Dry pastures, frequent. 1],. 7—9. — Stem-leaves few ; lower and 

 radical^ ones upon long stalks. Leaflets of the latter often deeply and 

 pmnatifidly cut, and sometimes even bipinnatifid. Peduncles dabrous 

 or densely pubescent {P. nigra W.). 



2. P. magna L. (greater B.) ; leaves all pinnate, leaflets 

 ovate-serrate somewhat cut the terminal one (rarely the late- 

 3^1 ones) 3-lobed, stem angled and striate, fruit glabrous. 

 E. B. t. 408. 



Shady places, on a chalky or limestone soil, In several parts of 

 En^^Iand. Banks of the Teith, Perthshire. Near Cork, Mucruss, and 

 ill larney. Ij.. 7, 8. — Larger m all its parts than the foreo-oino- 

 and the leaflets of the upper leaves much broader and less divided. ^ 



14. SiUM Linn. Water-parsnep. (Tab. I. f, 14.) 



Fruit ovate or globose, subdidymous, crowned with the de- 

 pressed base of the reflexed styles. Carpels with 5, rather 

 , obtuse ribs, and 2 or more viitcE between them : suture with 

 mttcB CaL-teeth small or obsolete. Pet obcordate, with an 



inflected point. 



yf many leaves.) — 'Name : 



according to Theis, from the word siw, water, from which comes 

 the English word sea, and the Greek craoj, to shake. 



1 S. latifoUumL. (broad-leaved W.) ; stem erect, leaves pin- 

 nate leaflets oblong-Ianceolate equally serrate, umbels ler- 

 minai. Jcl, jd. t. 204, 



River-^ides,^ditches and watery places. Rather rare in Scotland. 



- 4 ft. high, furrowed. LeaJIets distant, 5—9. 



li-. 7, 8. 



Stems 3 



