X'.MBEI.I.IFER.E 



leaflets oblique, serrate.— A common and very troublesome weed 

 in shrubberies. The leaves used formerly to be boiled for food ; 

 but their flavour is strong and disagreeable. — Fl. May— July. 

 Perennial. 



19. Pii\iPiNELi,."V (Burnet Saxifrage).— Zratrw pinnate; iiinheh 

 compound ; bracts none, or rarely one ; flowers generally white; 

 fruit oblong, crowned with the swollen bases of the reflexed styles. 

 (Name said to be from the Latin bipennula, in allusion to the 

 bipinnate leaves.) 



l'IArrINr^LL.'\ .SAxfrRAGA {Common Bu7->ict Saxifra^o). 



1. P. Saxifra-^a (Common Burnet Saxifrage). — A slender plant, 

 I — 2 feet high ; stem round , lower leaves long-stalked, pinnate ; 

 leaflets orbicular, sharply cut ; caiiline leaves bipinnate, with linear 

 acute segments. — Dry pastures ; common. — Fl. July — September, 

 Perennial. 



2. /'. major (Greater Burnet Sa.Mlrage). — Stonier and larger 

 than the last; stem angular; leaves all iiinnate ; leaflets ovate 

 serrate, the terminal one ^-lobed. — Shad)' places; not common. — 

 Fl. luly, August. Perennial. 



iO, iMvKKHis (Cicely). — Downy; leaves decompound; innlels 



