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minent ribs, 2 or 3 vittas under each interstice, and several vittas on the 
inner face. 
The genus, as now usually limited, contains a considerable number of 
species, chiefly from the Mediterranean region, and west-central Asia. The 
shape of the fruit is nearly that of Apium, but the ribs are much less pro- 
minent, and the vittas more numerous. 
Segments of the lower leaves either nearly orbicular or very much 
divided . : ; ‘ 2 , ‘ ; ; F . lL. P. Saxifraga. 
Segments of most of the leaves ovate or lanceolate ; the teeth or 
lobes very pointed . ; ‘ F ; ‘ : . 2. PB. magna. 
The Aniseed is the fruit of a species of this genus (P. Anisum). 
1, P. Saxifraga, Linn. (fig 415).' Common Pimpinel, Burnet Saxi- 
JSrage.—Stock short and thick, but not tuberous. Stems erect, 1 to 2 feet 
high, not much branched, glabrous or downy at the top. Leaves very 
variable, the radical ones usually pinnate, with 7 to 9 pairs of broadly ovate 
or orbicular segments, 6 to 9 lines long, toothed or lobed; the upper leaves 
small, their segments divided into a few narrow, ‘or even linear lobes : 
sometimes all, even the radical leaves, have their segments once or twice 
pinnate, with narrow lobes ; sometimes, again, the few stem-leaves are, like 
the radical ones, simply pinnate, but much ‘smaller, or reduced to simple 
bracts. Umbels terminal, with from 10 to 15 rather slender rays; the 
flowers white. 
In pastures, on banks, roadsides, etc., throughout Europe and Russian 
Asia, except the extreme north. Abundant in Britain. 7. all summer. 
2. P. magna, Linn. (fig. 416). Greater Pimpinel.—Very near P.'Sazi- 
Jraga, and perhaps a mere variety. It is much larger in all its parts; the 
stems often more than 2 feet high, and stouter ; the segments of the leaves 
usually undivided, ovate or lanceolate, often 1 to 13 inches long, with more 
pointed teeth, or, if divided, the lobes much longer and more pointed than 
in P. Saxifraga, the flowers frequently pink, in large umbels, and the fruit 
also larger. 
The general range is nearly the same as that of P. Sawifraga, but it is 
more frequent in mountainous districts and shady situations, or rich soils. 
_ In Britain, chiefly in southern and eastern England and southern Ireland, 
but extending into eastern Scotland. Fl. summer, rather late. Itis pro- 
bable that a further study of intermediate forms, which are frequent in 
the south of Europe, will induce its reunion with P. Sawifraga as a marked 
variety. | 
XII. BUPLEURUM. BUPLEVER. 
Leaves quite entire. Umbels compound, or sometimes small and irre- 
gular, with partial and usually also general involucres. Petals broad, 
entire, yellow. Fruit ovoid or oblong, somewhat laterally compressed, 
without visible calycine teeth. Carpels with 5 more or less prominent ribs, 
with or without vittas. 
A considerable genus, widely diffused over the temperate regions of the 
old world, and one of the few natural ones among Umbellifere, but distin- 
guished more by its entire leaves, with parallel veins and yellow flowers, 
than by the carpological characte rs, which in different species correspond 
to different short-fruited genera. 
