UMBELLIFERiE. 



341 



In stony wastes, very abundant in 

 southern Europe and eastward to the 

 Caucasus, more scarce in central Europe. 

 In Britain, only in the neighbourhood 

 of Torquay, and in the Channel Islands. 

 FL summer. 



Fig. 413. 



3. Slender Buplever. 



Euplevrum tenuissimum. 

 (Eig. 414.) 



Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 478.) 



A slender, wiry annual, either simple 

 and nearly erect, or more frequently 

 divided from the base into several de- 

 cumbent or ascending branches, 6 inches 

 to a foot high. Leaves few, narrow- 

 linear and grasslike, the upper ones very 

 short. Flowers in little heads of 3 or 

 4, nearly sessile along the upper part of 

 the stem and branches, sometimes form- 

 ing little, irregularly compound umbels 

 at the top. Involucres of a few small, 

 linear, pointed bracts. Emits more con- 

 spicuous than in the other species, and 

 covered with little raised dots or granules 

 between the ribs. 



On heaths, barren wastes, and stubbles, 

 common in central and southern Europe, 

 especially near the sea, extending east- 

 ward to the Caucasus, and northwards 

 to southern Sweden. Occurs in most of the maritime counties of Eng- 

 land, and occasionally also found inland, but neither in Ireland nor 

 Scotland. Fl. late in summer. 



Fig. 414. 



