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root; and they are of a pale green: when bruifed 
they have no ill fmell. ; 
The flowers are fmall and white; and the 
feeds are very large and brown, 
GSE Naat) 
It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Coriandrum minus tefticn- 
latum. Others, Coriandrum minus odorum. 
§ XXVIII. 
HARES EAR. 
Bick) UP Be GR Und. 
HIE flowers are placed in umbells, on divided and fubdivided branches. There are no leaves _ 
at the bafe of the larger branches, but there are under their fubdivifions, Each flower is com- 
pofed of five petals ; and thefe are fmall, heart-fathioned, and turned back at the ends. The cup is 
very fmall, and has five dents. The feeds are of an oblong, oval form, ftriated on one fide, and 
plain on the other. The leaves are entire and undivided. 
Linnaeus places this among the pentandria digynia, the threads being five, and the ftyles two in 
the flower. 
DI VIPs LON A 
1. Thoroughwax. 
Beupleurum perfoliatum. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hard. 
The falls is round, upright, and toward the 
top divided into feveral branches : it is of a yel- 
lowifh colour, and of a very firm fubftance. 
The leaves ftand fingly at confiderable dif- 
tances; and are of a roundifh, but fomewhat ob- 
long thape, of a firm fubftance, and a beauti- 
ful green. 
The ftalk runs through them: they are not at 
all indented at the edges, but are fomewhat 
pointed at the upper end. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a beautiful yel- 
low: they ftand in thick tufts at the tops of the 
branches: 
The feeds are {mall and blackifh. 
It is common in the corn-fields of fome parts 
of England, and flowersin July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Perfcliata vulgatafima. 
DP VeleS‘T:O Ne A. 
Common Hares-Ear. 
Beupleurum vulgare. 
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The root is fmall, and furnifhed with nume- 
rous fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, and very broad, 
undivided, and rounded at the ends. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and two feet 
high. 
BeRC TV TslA§ “Eee Se Pe Cal Rass 
Others, Perfoliata vulgaris. The more corredt ° 
writers, Beupleurum perfoliatum. 
2. Small Hares-Ear. 
Beupleurum minimum. 
The root is long, flender, and white. 
The ftalks are numerous, and very fmall : they 
are a foot and half high, and are divided toward 
the top into a few branches. 
The leaves ftand alternately on them; and 
they are long, narrow, grafly, and of a pale 
green. - gf 
The flowers ftand on very fmall umbells at the 
tops of the ftalks, and on footftalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves: they are little and 
white. 
The feeds are fmall, and dark-coloured. 
We have it in dry paftures, and by road- fides 
in Effex. It flowers in June. 
C, Bauhine calls it Beupleurum angufiffimo folio. 
Others, Beupleurum minimum. 
FOREIGN SPECIES, 
The leaves ftand alternately on it; and they 
are oblong, and moderately broad, of a bluith 
green, and undivided. 
The flowers are fmall and yellow. 
The feeds are brown and acrid, 
It is a native of Germany, and other parts of 
Europe, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Beupleurum vulgatifimum. 
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HE flowers are placed in little umbells on branches, fubdivided into numerous very fhort 
: ones, with a few leaves underneath. Each flower is compofed of five petals; and they are 
fplic at the end, and bent. The cup is very minute. The feeds are convex, and oR h on one 
fide, and plain on the other. ps, ‘ 
Linneus places this among the pentandria digynia ; the threads being five, and the ftyles two i 
each flower. shia : 
Common. 
