37. UMBELLIFERE. 129 
atic punctate.—Head of Glen Caragh, Kerry. Mr. Andrews. 
. VIL I. 
Sec. 3. Stems procumbent with opposite 1. and terminal flowers. 
21. 8. oppositifolia (L.); st. procumbent, 1. opposite oblong 
obtuse fringed, sep. ciliated without glands, pet. ovate. —E. B. 
9.—Very different from our other species. FI. large, purple.— 
Damp alpine rocks. P. IV. V. 
2. CurysospLentum Linn. Golden Saxifrage. 
1. C. alternifolium (L.); 1. alternate, lower 1. subreniform 
hairy crenate upon long stalks.—E. B. 54. St. 12.—Crenatures 
of the lower 1. emarginate, upper l. glabrous with the crenatures 
often rather acute. St. erect, 4—5 in. high, branching only near 
the top. Fl. umbellate, nearly sessile, deep yellow, Stam. usu- 
ally 8.—The anthers of this genus have only 1 cell and perhaps 
ought to be considered as 4 or 5 divided to the base of their fila- 
ments.—Boggy places. P. IV. 
2. C. oppositifolium (L.) ; 1. opposite, lower 1. roundish-cordate 
shortly stalked wavy.—E. B. 490. St. 4. 6.—St. branching from 
the base, 4—6 in. long, decumbent, straggling. Fl. paler and 
more scattered than in the last. L. usually glabrous, sometimes 
slightly hairy. Stam. usually 8—Damp shady places. P. IV. V. 
Order XXXVII. UMBELLIFERA. 
Cal. 5-toothed or entire, adherent to the ovary, limb often ob- 
solete. Pet. 5, usually inflexed at the point. Stam. 5, inserted 
with the pet, on the mouth of the calyx. Ovary 2-celled, crowned 
with a double fleshy disk (stylopode). Styles 2. Fr. consist- 
ing of 2 carpels (mericarps) adhering by thew face (commissure) 
to a common axis from which they ultimately separate and be- 
come pendulous. Seed solitary pendulous. Albumen horny.— 
Inflorescence umbellate.——Each carpel has 5 primary ridges and 
often 4 intermediate secondary ones with channels between, and 
in the substance of the pericarp are usually linear receptacles of 
oil (vittee) under the channels or rarely the ridges. These parts 
are sometimes either wanting or only slightly apparent. 
Suborder I. ORTHOSPERM 2. 
Seed or albumen not furrowed in front. Umbels various. 
* Umbels imperfect or simple. 
Tribe I. HYDROCOTYLE. Fr. laterally compressed, its 
back even or acute. P 
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