XXXVIII. UMBELLIFER^. 



itO 



Bupleurum.il 



Involucre of many leaves. Fruit small. Base of sti/Ies depressed. 

 Carpels with the lateral ribs marginal ; interstices with 3 superficial 

 vittiB, Albumen flat on the inner face. 



2. S. angustifolium L. {narrow -leaved W.) ; stem erect, leaf- 

 lets unequally lobed and serrate, umbels pedunculate opposite 

 to the leaves, E. B. t. 139. 



Ditches and rivulets, frequent. Not common in Scotland. %.. 7? 

 8. — Smaller than the last. Stem striate. Leaflets of the upper 

 leaves most unequal and laciniate : radical leaves ovate, their lower- 

 most leaflets distant. Involucre many-leaved. Base of styles some- 

 what conical Ilibs of the carpels not prominent : lateral ones not 



marginal. 



Vittce 3 or more together, immersed. Albumen terete. 



15. BuPLEURUM Linn. Hare's-Ear. (Tab. I. f. 15.) 



Fruit ovate-oblong, crowned with the depressed base of the 

 styles. Carpels vf\^ 5, more or less prominent ribs, with or 

 without vittce. CalAeeth obsolete. Pet. roundish, entire with 

 an involute retuse broad point. (Leaves iindivided). — Named 

 from (iovQ^ an ox^ and irXevpov^ a rib^ in allusion to the ribbed 



leaves of some species. 



H.) : stem branched, 



universal and partial involucre each about 4 — 54eaved, leaflets 

 lanceolate cuspidate with branching nerves longer than the 

 umbels, leaves linear 3-nerved, stem panicled, pedicels short 

 equal. B. Odontites E. B. t. 2468. (not L.) 



Rocks in the neighbourhood of Torquay. Channel Islands. ^ ©- 

 7. — A small plant, 3—6 inches or more high, with rigid, striate, 

 pale yellow-green, pungent leaves. Flowers in terminal, much invo- 

 lucrated umbels. 



2. B. rotundifoUum L. (common H. or Thorow-imx) ; stem 

 branched abovCj universal involucre wanting, partial involucres 

 mucronate, leaves perfoliate roundish-oval. E. B. t. 99. 



Corn-fields in England, on chalky soil, 

 ham. and in 



Ahundant about Swaff- 



Cambridgeshire, 



Streatly, Berkshire. ©. 6, 7. 



Carpels with the interstices striate. 



3. B. tenuissimum L. (slender H.) ; stem very much branched, 

 leaves linear acute, umbels very minute few-flowered, partial 

 ones usually shorter than the setaceous involucres, E. B. 

 t. 478. 



Salt-marshes on the south and east coasts of England. Banks ot 

 the Dee, below Chester. ©. 8, 9. — Stems very wiry, slender. 

 Leaves remote, very sharp, mostly S-nerved. Umbels inconspicuous, 

 often sessile and axillary. Carpels granulated between the 5 ribs, 

 by which it differs from all our other species. 



4. B. ""falcdtum L. (falcate-leaved H.) ; stem erect branched, 



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