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Suborder I. Orthosperme. Tribe I. Hydrocotylea. 
1. Hyprocotyte Linn. 
1. H. vulgaris (L.); 1. peltate nearly circular doubly crenate, 
heads of 5 fi., fr. emarginate below.—E. B. 751.—Fi. 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. Penny-wort. 
Tribe II. Saniculee. 
2. Sanicuua Linn. 
1. S. europea (L.); lower 1. palmate 3—5-lobed, lobes trifid 
unequally serrate, fertile fl. sessile, barren fl. slightly stalked.— 
£E.B. 98.—Umbels numerous, capitate, in an irregular slightly 
umbellate panicle. Styles persistent, reflexed. St. ascending, 
about a foot high.— Woods and thickets. P. VI. VII. 
3. AstrRantia Linn. 
tl. A. major (L.); lower 1. palmately 5—7-fid, lobes oblong 
acute unequally incise-serrate, inv.-l. entire, cal.-teeth ovate-lan- 
ceolate narrowed to an acute pomt.—St. 29. 8.—Inv. equalling 
the umbel, usually straw-coloured.—Woods in oe 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. 
Tribe III. Eryngiee. 
4. Eryneium Linn. 
1. E. maritimum (L.); radical 1. roundish plaited spinous 
stalked, upper 1. amplexicaule palmately lobed, inv.-J. 3-lobed 
spinous longer than the heads, scales of the receptacle 3-lobed.— 
E. B. 718.—St. 1 foot or more in height, branched, leafy. Fl. in 
heads rather than umbels, blue.—Sandy sea-shores. P. VII. VIII. 
Sea Holly. 
2. E. campestre (L.); radical 1. 2 or 3 times pinnatifid spmous 
stalked, st.-l. amplexicaule bipinnatifid, inv.-. lanceolate spinous 
longer than the heads, scales of the receptacle undivided.—E. B. 
57.—More bushy and slender than the last. Pet. purplish or 
