84 PENTANDRL\ DIGYNL\. Pastinaca.. 



General bracteas one or two. Peucedanum Silaus. E. 

 B. 2142. Saxifraga anglicana, facie Seseli pratensis. 

 G. E. 1047. 



Rather moist meadows^ pastures. 



Per. July. 



Wliole plant smooth, darkish-green, varying in the shape of its 



leaves. FL yellow, or greenish hue. Leaflets spear-shaped, as 



it were keeled ; outermost united together. Ls. thrice-winged. 



Germ, crowned with a glandular yellow receptacle, turning to 



a deep red as the seeds ripen. 



Where this herb abounds in pastures it is found partially 

 cropped ; generally left almost entire. 



BUPLEURUM. Hare's-Ear. 



B. rotundifolium. Common H. Thorow-wax^ Gene- 

 ral bracteas wanting. Leaves perfoliate. E. B. 99- 

 Perfoliata vulgaris. G. E. 5S^, 



Cornfields, especially a chalky soil. Sm. Parks. Southleigh. Middle- 

 ton Stoney. Sb. Cornfields on BuUingdon Green. (Between 

 Ferry Hinksey and Cumnor Hurst. Bx.) 



Stem alternately branched, hard, rigid and straightish, bent inwards, 

 clothed with remarkably perfoliate leaves. Foot and a half high. 

 Ls. egg-shaped. Fl. yellow. Partial involucre of five leaves, 



large. 



Plant reckoned among vulnerary herbs, in old herbals. 



HYDROCO'TYLE." White-rot.^ 



H. vulgaris. Common JVh. Marsh Penny-ivort. Leaves 

 circular, target-shaped, smooth ; cloven at the base. 



- Umbels somewhat crowded. Flowers nearly stalkless. 

 E. B. 751. C. 6, 19. Cotyledon palustris. G. E. 529. 



An. June. 



Moist heaths, boggy commons, margins of rivulets. 



Per. June. 



Stems creeping. Ls. solitary, or clustered, on upright, simple foot- 

 stalks, two or three inches high. Flower-stalks axillary. Fl. 

 small, reddish-white. Umbellate head five to eight flowers. 

 Herb acrid. 



PASTINA'CA. Parsnep. 

 P. sativa. Common Wild P. Leaves simply winged, 



1 Thorow-wax, so called from the stem waxing, i. e. growing thorow, or 

 through, the leaves. 



^ Hydrocotyle, from udor, water, and cotule, a cup. 



3 White-rot, from a supposition that the plant caused the disease in sheep, 

 called the rot : the disease rather attributable to the moistness of the pastures. 



