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42. CoRiANDRUM. Cal. of 5 teeth. Pet. obcordate with an 

 inflexed point, outer ones radiant and bifid. Fr. globose. 

 Carp, scarcely separating, the primary ridges obsolete, the 

 4 secondary conspicuous prominent keeled. Interstices 

 without vittse. Commissure with 2 vittse. 



Suborder I. Orthosperma. Tribe I. Hydrocotylea. 



1. Hydrocotyle Linn. Penny-wort. 



1. H. vulgaris (L.) ; 1. peltate nearly circular doubly crenate, 

 heads of 5 fl., fr. emarginate below. — E. B. 751. — Fl. and fr. 

 almost sessile. Umbels or rather heads often proliferous in the 

 centre and bearing a second head. St. creeping extensively. L. 

 upon stalks which are considerably longer than the peduncles. — 

 Bogs and marshy places. P. V. — VIII. 



Tribe II. Saniculem. 



2. Sanicula Linn. Sanicle. 



I. S. europeea (L.) ; lower 1. palmate 3 — 5-lobed, lobes trifid 

 unequally serrate, fertile fl. sessile, barren fl. slightly stalked. — 

 E. B. 98. — Umbels many, capitate, in an irregular slightly 

 umbellate panicle. Styles persistent, reflexed. St. ascending, 

 about a foot high. — Woods and thickets. P. VI. VII. 



3. AsTRANTiA Linn. 



fl. A. major (L.) ; lower 1. palmately 5 — 7-fid, lobes oblong 

 acute unequally incise-serrate, inv.-l. entire, cal.-teeth ovate-ian- 

 ceolate narrowed to an acute point. — St. 2.9. 8. — Inv. equaUiug 

 the umbel, usually straw-coloured. — Woods in hilly districts. 

 Between Whitbourne and Malvern. Above Stokesay Castle, near 

 Ludlow. In the latter place Mr. Borrer considers it to have been 

 introduced " ages ago." P. VI. — VIII. E. 



Tribe III. Eryngiea. 



4. Eryngium Linn, Eryngo. 



1. E. maritimum (L.); radical I. roundish plaited spinous 

 stalked, upper 1. amplexicaul palmately lobed, inv.-l. 3-lobed 

 spinous exceeding the heads, scales of the receptacle 3-lobed. — 

 E. B. 718. — St. 1 foot or more in height, branched, leafy, rigid. 



