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leaflets oblique, serrate.— A common and very troublesome weed 

 in shrubberies. The leaves used formerly to be boiled for food ; 

 but their flavour is strong and disagreeable. — Fl. May — July. 

 Perennial. 



19. Pimpinella (Burnet Saxifrage) — Leaves pinnate; umbels 

 compound ; bracts none, or rarely one ; flowers generally white; 

 fruit oblong, crowned with the swollen bases of the reflexed styles. 

 (Name said to be from the Latin bipennula, in allusion to the 

 bipinnate leaves.) 



pimpin£lla SAxiFRAGA (Common Burnet Saxifrage). 



i. P. Saxifraga (Common Burnet Saxifrage). — A slender plant, 

 1 — 2 feet high ; stem round ; lower leaves long-stalked, pinnate ; 

 leaflets orbicular, sharply cut ; cauline leaves bipinnate, with linear 

 acute segments. — Dry pastures ; common. — Fl. July — September. 

 Perennial. 



2. P. major (Greater Burnet Saxifrage). — Stouter and larger 

 than the last ; stem angular ; leaves all pinnate ; leaflets ovate 

 serrate, the terminal one 3-lobed. — Shady places; not common. — 

 Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



20. Myrrhis (Cicely). — Downy ; leaves decompound : umbels 



