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XXVI. 
PRICKLY SAMPIRE, 
ECHINOPHORA 
6 BN flowers are difpofed in moderately large umbells, 
divifions of the branches. 
of the plant are prickly. 
Linnzeus places this among the pentandria monogynia, the threads being five, 
each flower. 
This author does not, in his Genera Plantarum, 
Each flower is compofed of five oblong, 
petals. The cup is fall, and is divided into five fegments. 
allow it to be a difting@ genus, 
of caucalis. In his fpecies he makes it of a diftiné& genus, 
with little leaves at the divifions and fub- 
heart-fathioned, and bent 
The feeds are rough, and the leaves 
and the ftyles two in 
i but makes it a kind 
but there joins a caucalis with it : in both 
erroneous. ‘There is but one known fpecies, properly diftinguithed, and that is a native of Britain 
Prickly Sampire. 
Echinophora. 
The root is long and thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are very broad and fpreading : 
they are divided into innumerable fmall, oblong 
fegments, in an irregularly pinnated manner ; and 
thefe are prickly at the end. 
The ftalk is very thick, round, ftriated, up- 
right, and divided into numerous branches. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root, and are in the fame manner prickly. 
Ce eRe ay 
The flowers are finall and white; and they 
ftand in umbells, terminating the tops of the 
branches, 
The feeds are oblong and rough. 
The root of this plant is of a very agreeable 
tafte, and flefhy fubftance. ; 
It is common on our fea coafts, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Crithmum maritimum Spino- 
Sum. 
§ XXVII. 
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CO ORE IP EAN DOR: Ue 
PPHE flowers are difpofed in fmall umbells. There are no leaves at the bafe of the firt: divifion, 
but three at each of the fubdivifions of the branches. Each flower is compofed of five petals; 
and they are of unequal fize, but all bent backward, and heart-fafhioned. The cup is fmall, and di. 
vided into five fegments. 
The feeds are hemifpherical. 
Linneeus places this among the pentandria digynia; the threads being five, and the flyles two in 
each flower, 
DIVISION I. 
Common Coriander. 
Coriandrum vulgare. 
The root is long, flender, white, and  fur- 
nifhed with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves are divided in a pinnated man- 
ner, into many broad, ferrated fegments. 
The flalk is two feet high, and has many 
branches. 
The leaves on it are divided into fmall, nar- 
row fegments, and of a pale green: when bruifed 
they have a very ftrong and difagreeable fmell. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 5 
DE Vols ONE W: 
Small Sweet Coriander. 
Coriandrum minus. 
The root is very long, flender, and white. 
The firtt leaves are fmall, and of a pale green ; 
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and are fmall and white, with a very faint blufh 
of red. ‘ 
The feeds are large, and of a pale brown. 
We have it in our weftern counties in dry places, 
and by road-fides ; perhaps native, perhaps from 
feeds cafually dropt. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Coriandrum majus. Others? 
Coriandram vulgare, 
The feeds are cordial, and good againft flatu- 
Tences; and they are greatly recommended by 
their agreeable tafte, 
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FOREIGN: SPECIES. 
and they are deeply divided into flender feements. 
The ftalks are numerous and weak: they are 
about eight inches high ; and they lie fpread 
upon the ground. . 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
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