UMBELLfFER^E 



lobed ; umbels small, irregularly compound, of few pedicels ending 

 in capitate secondary umbels ; bracts leafy ; outer flowers without 

 stamens, the inner without carpels ; fruit covered with hooked 

 prickles. (Name, a diminutive from the Latin sano, I heal, from 

 supposed healing qualities.) 



i. S. europcea (Wood 

 Sanicle). — The only 

 British species, a gla- 

 brous plant about a foot 

 high ; /eaves 3 — 5-lobed, 

 lobes 3 - fid, serrate, 

 glossy ; flowers dull 

 white, in small rounded 

 heads. — Woods ; com- 

 ^••*\ V*\ \ ^^^^ J^r^S^vTs^ mon, often in dense 



shade. — Fl. June, July. 

 <^ Perennial. 



5. Danaa (Bladder- 

 seed). — Erect plants ; 

 leaves 3-ternate ; leaflets 

 wedge - shaped ; umbels 

 compound ; bracts and 

 bracteoles few, linear ; 

 flowers white ; fruit 

 broader than long, blad- 

 der - like ; seed loose. 

 (Name in honour of Pro- 

 fessor Dana of Turin.) 



1. D. cornubiensis 

 (Cornish Bladder-seed). 

 — A glabrous plant, 

 about 2 feet high, with 

 ribbed, round, branched 

 stem ; long-stalked, 3- 

 ternate leaves with 

 downy margins and 

 veins ; and long-stalked, terminal and axillary umbels. — It is found 

 only near Bodmin, Cornwall, and Tavistock, Devon. — Fl. July, 

 August. Perennial. 



6. CoNfuM (Hemlock). — Tall, glabrous plants ; leaves pinnate ; 

 umbels compound ; bracts and bracteoles many, small ; sepals absent ; 

 petals white, blunt, or with shortly infiexed tip. (Name from the 

 Greek kontion, hemlock.) 



danXa cornubiensis {Cornish Bladder-seed). 



