SESELi. 



cated, and umMs more lax. Seeds rather fliorter. In Jac- 

 quiii's figures thefe plants appear very different, but the 

 glaucum of moft authors is merely montanum. Jacquin does 

 not notice the hahy feeds. 



6. S. arijlatum. Bearded-leaved Meadow-faxifrage. Ait. 

 n. 3. WiUd. n. 6. (Ligulticum lucidum ; Mill. Dift. 

 ed. 8. n. 4.) — " Footftalks under the branches lax, entire, 

 fomewhat membranous. Leaves repeatedly compound ; 

 leaflets lanceolate, briltle-pointed. Fruit ovate." — Native 

 of the Pyrenean mountains. Cultivated by Miller at Chelfea. 

 A hardy perennial, flowering in .June and July, yiito/i. 

 Miller fays the root is biennial. Leaves doubly pinnate ; 

 lobes very narrow, and finely divided. Stems Itrong, a foot 

 and half high, furnifhed with fhining winged leaves, and ter- 

 minated by pretty large umbels ot whitifli Jioiuers. A fpe- 

 cimen fent by Gouan for S. annuiim, which it certainly is 

 not, feems to be the plant under confideration. The feg- 

 mentg of its leaves have callous tips. The leaves of the 

 partial hivolucrum are ovate, with broad white membranous 

 edges, their points extending beyond the Jioiuers. 



J. S.annunm. Caraway -leaved Meadow-faxifrage. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 373. Willd. n. 7. Jacq. Auftr. t. 55. (S. carvi- 

 folium ; Villars Dauph. v. 2. 586, from the author. S. co- 

 loratum ; Ehrh. Herb. n. 113. Beitr. v. 5. 179. Pimpi- 

 nella tenuifolia ; Rivin. Pentap. Irr. t. 83. f. i. Foeni- 

 culum fylvellre annuum, tragofelini odore, umbella alba ; 

 Vaill. Parif. 54. t. 9. f. 4.) — Footftalks of the upper leaves 

 lax, membranous, emarginate. Stem and branches ereft. 

 Leaves doubly pinnate, cut ; their primary divifions feflile. 

 Seeds fmooth. — Native of France, Germany, and Switzer- 

 land. Root tapering, woody, crowned with fibres of de- 

 cayed leaves, and having all the appearance of being peren- 

 nial. Stem twelve or eighteen inches high, ereft, lliff, fome- 

 what zigzag, round, ftriated, leafy, often purplifh ; its 

 branches very little fpreading. Leaves ftalked, varying 

 greatly in the length of the leaflets a.id their divifions, green 

 rather than glaucous ; occafionally purplifh ; their fegments 

 linear-oblong, narrow, keeled. Umbels white or purplifh, 

 of many general as well as partial rays, all more or lefs 

 downy. Partial involucrum of many lanceolate membranous- 

 edged leaves, whofe taper points reach beyond the flowers. 

 Seeds elliptic-oblong, very convex, with three dorfal ribs, 

 deftitute of pubefcence in every part. We have this fpecies 

 from M. Du Cros as Haller's n. 762, to which it feems well 

 enough to anfwer, but if fo, Gouan miftakes Haller's plant. 



8. S. chitrophyltoliles- Chervil Meadow-faxifrage. Thunb. 

 Prodr. Ji. Willd. n. 8. — "Footftalks under the branches 

 membranous, tumid, entire. Stem forked, paniclcd. Leaves 

 repeatedly compound, fmooth." — Gathered by Thunberg, 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. 



9. S. j^mmmdes. Milfoil Meadow-faxifrage. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 373. Willd. n. 9. Ait. n. 4. Jacq. Hort. Vind. 

 V. I. 20. t. 52. (Ammoides; Baiih. Pin. 159. Ammi ; 

 Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 120. A. M:Utliioli ; Dalech. Hift. 

 695.) — Leaflets of the radical leaves imbricated ; thofe 

 of the upper ones almolt capillary. Stem fpreading. 

 Rays of the umbel capillary, very unequal. Seeds 

 fmooth. — Native of Greece, Portugal, Italy, Sicily, and the 

 fouth of France. A fleiider annual plant, about a foot high, 

 iia Jlem generally branched from the very bottom. Lower 

 leaves on long flender ftalks, pinnate, their leaflets in many 

 narrow-lanceolate, channelled fcgment), lying over each 

 other ; upper ufually twice ternate, with much longer, and 

 very flender, undivided leaflets ; their footftalks fhort, flu-ath- 

 ing, furrowed, and membranous. Umbels terminal, very 

 delicate and lax, of about feven or eight extremely unequal 

 capillar)' rays ; the partial ones of more numerous, but like- 



wife unequal, much fhorter, fpreading ray«. Li-volucral 

 leaves briftle-fhaped. Flowers white. Fruit minute, roundifh- 

 ovate, ftriated, fmooth. 



10. S. tortuofum. Crooked Meadow-faxifrage. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 373. Willd. n. 10. Ait. n. 5. (S. maffilienfe, 

 foeniculi foho, quod Diofcoridis cenfetur ; Bauh. Pin. l6l. 



Foeniculum tortuofum; Bauh. Hift. v. 3. p. 2. 16.) 



Stem much branched, divaricated, rigid, furrowed and an- 

 gular. Leaves of the partial involucrum ovate, membranous 

 at the edges, fomewhat combined at the bafe. — Native of 

 the fouth of Europe. Root biennial, rather than perennial. 

 This fpecies is known by its remarkably rigid, repeatedly 

 branched, ftraggling ^I'm, bearing great numbers of rigid, 

 clumfy, fpreading umbels, each frequently accompanied by a 

 general involucrum of one leaf. The Jlem-leaves are com- 

 monly very fmall, with a large, broad, abrupt, membranous. 

 edged footjflali. Whether the leaflets of the radical leaves 

 vary greatly in length and breadth, or whether Linnjeushas, 

 under this, confounded feveral diftinft fpecies, we have not 

 fufiicient information to decide. The whole herbage i« 

 glaucous, of a thick rigid habit. 



II. S. giimmiferum. Gummy Meadow-faxifrage. Sra. 

 Exot. Bot. v. 2. 121. t. 120. Ait.Epit. 374. — Stem fur- 

 rowed, rigid, leafy. Partial involucrum of many hnear 

 leaves, united by a broad bafe. Flowers almolt feflile. 

 Leaflets wcdge-fhaped. — Gathered by profeflor Pallas in the 

 Crimea. It was obferved by Mr. Lambert in the Oxford 

 garden, about the year 1803, and communicated by him to 

 his friends. The plant is biennial, hardy, flowering in 

 fummer and autumn. Stem three or four feet high, ereft, 

 branched, leafy, very ftout and rigid, furrowed, minutely 

 downy ; when wounded exuding a copious, yellow, fetid 

 refinous gum. Leaves a fpan long or more, triply pinnate, 

 glaucous, fomewhat downy ; their leaflets oblong or wedge- 

 fhaped, flat, decurrent, acute. Umbels terminal, ereft, finely 

 downy, flattifh, from three to fix inches broad, of very nu- 

 merous rays. General involucrum ufually of one fliort llrap- 

 fhaped leaf; but in the large primary umbel of feveral: 

 partial with a broad, fimple, di(k-like bafe, fringed with co- 

 pious, horizontal, linear, acute leaflets, nearly equal to the 

 Jlowers. Each partial umbel is flat when young, parti- 

 coloured with purple and white, but afterwards convex, con- 

 filting of innumerable almoft [n'Rde jlo'wers, powdered over, 

 as it were, with the white anthers. Petals red and white, in- 

 flexed, nearly regular. Cermen furrowed, fmooth. Fruit 

 elliptical. 'T\\t Jlo-uiers have a faint imcll, not unlike thofe 

 of the Barberry. In Haller's letters, v. 2. 318, is one from 

 Dillenius, dated Dec. 1746, in which he fpeaks of an um- 

 belliferous plant, fent under the name of Stfeli from Siberia, 

 which, being fown in the fpring, flowered, but perifhed on 

 the approach of winter, without producing feed. He con- 

 ceived it to be allied to the Hippomaralhrum of Rivinus, (fee 

 our next fpecies,) on account of tlie fimple-leaved partial in- 

 volucrum, cut into fix or eight teeth. The general umbel 

 had a flender ftrap-like leaf to each ray. The feeds refembled 

 thofe of Caraway, and were not winged. Might not this 

 be our S . gummiferum ^ If io, Dillenius ought to be re- 

 corded as Its original introducer. 



12. S. Hippomaralhrum. Cupped Meadow-faxifrage. 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 374. Willd. n. 12. Ait. n. 6. Jacq. 

 Auftr. t. 143. (Hipponiarathriim ; Rivin. Pentap. Irr, 

 t. 67. Saxifraga pannonica ; Cluf. Hift. v. 2. 196. Gcr. 

 Em. 1047.) — Stem nearly leaflefs. Partial involucrum of 

 one cup-lhaped many-toothed leaf. — Native of ftony ground 

 in Auftria, Carniola, Hungary, &c. flowering in July and 

 Auguft. The root is woody and perennial, crowned with 

 the fcaly or fibrous remains of old footflalks. Stems a foot 

 U u 2 high, 



