202 UMBELLIFERJE. [Pimpinellu. 



1. JE. Podagraria, L. Goutweed. Herb Gerard. Vect. 

 Ground or Dwarf Elder* Br. Fl. p. 163. E. B. i. 940. 



In damp shady waste or cultivated places, gardens, orchards, grores, and on 

 moist hedsehanks ; not very cominon. Fl. June — Autjust. 2f . 



E. Med. — At Newchurch. Just out of Shanklin on the road to Bonchurch, and 

 at Montpellier House, Ventnov. At Alverstoii, on a hank by the roadside going 

 towards Bordwood. At French mill. In extremely small quantity on the former 

 site of Little Hardingshxite farm, close to the entrance-gate of the meadow, where 

 Tulipa sylvestris grows. Sparingly at Lake, on a garden hedgebank facing the 

 Stag inn. In a shady part of the S.E. ooiner of Appiildurcombe park, by Wrox- 

 all. Sandford. Very common at Godshill. In an orchard at Hartsash, near 

 Newchurch. About Knighton Manor House. In Mrs. Vine's grounds at Puck- 

 aster. Orchard at Apse farm. At Old Park, in plenty, Albert Hambrough, Esq. 



W.Med. — Area of Carisbrooke castle, in plenty. In a lane called Clerken, 

 under Carisbrooke castle. In the singular hollow way by the roadside at Idle- 

 combe. All over the grounds at North Court, Shorwell, in profusion. Just out 

 of Calbourne towards Brixton. Between Buocomhe and Shorwell. Norton. 

 Freshwater. About Gatcomb in various places. At Swainston, sparingly. 



This plant is by no means generally distributed in the South of England, but 

 in the North it abounds, and at Glasgow is the prevailing Umbelliferous plant 

 about the outskirts of the town. Mr. J. T. Mackay has the same remark on its 

 distribution in Ireland. 



XI. BoNiuM, Linn. Earthnut. 



" Fruit oblong, crowned with the bases of the diverging or 

 nearly straight styles. Carpels with 5 slender, obtuse ribs, and 

 8 — 3 elongated linear vittm between tliem, and none upon the 

 suture. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obcordate, with an inflected 

 point." — Br. Fl. 



1. B. flexuosum, With. Common or Lesser Earthnut. Kip- 

 per. Pignut. " Stem-leaves few nearly sessile with linear seg- 

 ments, general involucre or 1^2 leaved, styles erect with a 

 conical base."— .Br. Fl. p. 164. E. B. t. 988. 



Abundant throughout the island in meadows, pastures, groves and grassy 

 thickets. Fl. May, June. Fr. July. %. 



Though the tubers of this plant are a delicacy that " boyish appetite disdains 

 not," there is an acrimony, an " aliquid amari," with their sweetness, better fitted 

 to the digestion of the respectable quadrupeds whose name they share, than for 

 Christian bipeds of tender years. Dr. Johnston, in his ' Flora of Berwick-on- 

 Tweed,' tells us these roots are an article of commerce in Sweden, but they are 

 probably those of the Great Earthnut [B. Bulbo-castanum), much prized in Italy, 

 and perhaps exported to Sweden, where neither that nor the present species is indi- 

 genous. The former however is a native of Norway (Fl. Dan.), and has lately 

 been discovered at Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge. 



XII. PiMPiNELLA, Linn. Burnet Saxifrage. 



" Fruit ovate, crowned with the swollen base of the reflexed 

 styles. Carpels with 5 slender ribs, the interstices furrowed, with 

 2 — 3 long linear vittce ; suture with vitto. Calyx-teeth obsolete. 

 Petals obcordate, with an inflexed point. (Involucres 0)." — Br. 

 Fl. 



* The common name throughout Hants, and I believe in other counties. 



