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perfoliate, roundish, ovate, glaucous leaves, and large greenish- 

 yellow, bristle-pointed bracteoles, thrice as long as the minute 

 yellow flowers. — Cornfields on chalky soil ; rare. — Fl. July. 

 Annual. 



2. B. opdcum (Narrow-leaved Buplever), a small plant, 3 — 6 

 in. high, with pale, sword-shaped, 3 — 5-veined, rigid leaves, and 3 

 — 5 large, sharp-pointed brac- 

 teoles concealing the umbels 

 of greenish flowers, occurs on 

 sandy banks near Torquay 

 and Eastbourne, and in the 

 Channel Islands. — Fl. June, 

 July. Annual. 



3. B. tenuissimum (Slender 

 Buplever). — Stem slender, 

 wiry, about a foot high ; leaves 

 linear, acute, 3-veined ; umbels 

 small ; bracts and bracteoles 

 narrow, subulate ; flowers 

 minute, yellowish. — Salt 

 marshes ; rare.- — Fl. August, 

 September. Annual. 



4. B. falcdtum (Sickle - 

 leaved Buplever). — Stem 

 erect, slender, hollow, 1 — .4 

 feet high ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, curved, acute, 5 — 

 7-veined, umbels small ; bracts 

 and bracteoles 2 — 5, as long 

 as the minute yellow flowers. 

 — Near Ongar, Essex, and 

 Herts. — Fl. August, Septem- 

 ber. Perennial. 



BUPLEb'RUM ROTUNDIFOLIPM 



(Common Thorow-wax, Hares-ear). 



9. Trinia (Honewort). — 

 Glabrous, branched plants ; 

 leaves tripinnate ; umbels com- 

 pound, few-rayed ; bracts and bracteoles 1 — 3 each ; flowers white, 

 dioecious ; sepals inconspicuous ; petals with an inflexed tip, those 

 of the staminate plants lanceolate, those of the pistillate plants 4 

 ovate ; vittce solitary, in the bases of the primary ridges. (Named 

 in honour of Dr. Trinius, a Russian botanist.) 



1. T. glaiica (Honewort). — Glaucous, 3 — 8 in. high; stem 

 solid, stout, grooved ; branches divergent ; leaves spreading, with 



