XXXIX. ARALIACE^ 



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involucre wanting or of one, partial of few subulate leaves. 

 Caucalis JE. JB. t. 1314. 



Fields and way-sides, common. ©. 7 — 9. — Fruit with straight 

 appressed bristles on the primary ridges, and retrorsely scabrous 

 spreading hooked ones on the interstices. 



3. T. nodosa G^ertn. (knotted H.) ; stem prostrate, umbels 

 lateral simple subsessile, fruit sometimes warted. Caucalis 

 E. B. t. 199. 



or 



Waste places by road-sides, frequent ; especially in dry, gravelly, 

 chalky soils. ©. 5 — 7. — Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets ovate, pin- 



natifid, segments linear, acute, sliort, 

 base of a leaf. Flowers reddish. 



Umbels capitate, opposite the 

 Outer fruits oi the umbel most 

 bristly; inner ones partially tubercled. In this species the umbel is 

 as simple as in the first section of the Order. 



40. EcHiNOPHORA Linn, Prickly Samphire. 



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Fruit ovate, lodged in a prickly receptacle, with a prickly 

 involucre. Carpels with 5 depressed, waved and striate, equal 

 smooth ribs, and simple vittce in the interstices which are covered 

 with a cobweb-like membrane. Albumen involute. Pet, ob- 



cordate, with an inflected point. 



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Name derived from sxivoq, a hedgehogs and <^f,ow, to bear; 

 in reference to the prickly nature of the plant. 



1. E. "^spinosa L. {Sea-side P., or Sea-Parsnep') ; leaves bi- 

 pinnatifid, the segments trifid subulate spinous, involucres 

 entire spinous. E. B. t. 2413. 



Sandy sea-shores, Lancashire and Kent. 2/.. 7. — A very prickly 

 and singular plant, now, we fear, quite lost as a native of Britain. 

 The flowers of the circumference have stamens only, and at length 

 unite by the base, and surround the solitary central fertile one like 

 an involucre. 



Ord. XXXIX. ARALIACE^ Juss. 



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Calyx-tube adnate in whole or in part v^^ith the ovary^ entire 



or cleft. Petals 4 — 10, rarely cohering, or none ; (Estivation 



valvular. Stamens equal in number to the petals or twice as 



many, from the margin of an epigynous di^;k. Ovary 2- or more 



celled : ovules solitary, pendulous. Styles as many as cells. 



Stigmas fiVLV^lQ. Fruit fleshy or dry, of several 1-seeded cells. 



Seed with a fleshy albumeri^ and a minute embryo. — Trees, 



shrubs, or herbs ; nearly allied to Umbelliferse. Panax affords 

 the Gmseng. 



1. Adoxa. Corolla monopetalous, rotate. Stem slender, herbaceous. 



2. Hedera. Corolla of 5 petals. Stem woody. 



