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3. Astrantia Linn. 
+1. A. major (L.) ; lower 1. palmately 5 — 7-fid : lobes ob- 
long acute unequally inciso-serrate involucral 1. entire, cal. -teeth 
ovate-lanceolate narrowed to an acute point. — St. 29. 8. — Invo- 
lucre as long as the umbel, usually straw-coloured. — Woods in 
hilly districts. Between Whitbourne and Malvern. Above 
Stokesay Castle, near Ludlow. Mr. Borrer has seen it in the 
latter place and considers it to have been introduced " ages 
ago." P. VI.— VIII. E. 
4. Eryngium Linn. 
1. E. maritimum (L.) ; radical I. roundish plaited spinous 
stalked, upper 1. amplexicaule palmately lobed, involucral I. 
3-lobed spinous longer than the heads, scales of the receptacle 
3-lobed. — E. B. 718. — St. 1 foot or more in height, branched, 
leafy. Fl. in heads rather than umbels, pet. blue. — Sandy sea- 
shores. P. VII. VIII. Sea Holly. 
2. E. campestre (L.) ; radical 1.2 or 3 times pinnatifid spinous 
stalked, st. 1. amplexicaule bipinnatifid, involucral I. lanceolate 
spinous longer than the heads, scales of the receptacle undivided. 
— E. B. 57. — More bushy and slender than the last. Pet. pur- 
plish. Petioles thick, semiterete, channeled. — On waste ground, 
very rare. P. VII. VIII. E. S. 
The Eryngium found on the banks of the Tyne and called 
E. campestre is perhaps different (judging from a specimen from 
Jarrow) ; it has — radical I. 3-lobed stalked coarsely spinous-den- 
tate : lobes broad the intermediate one 3-fid, stem 1. sessile pal- 
mately divided into 3 — 5 lanceolate dentate-spinous lobes with 
a broad common base, involucral I. 3 — 6 lanceolate entire keeled 
longer than the ovate heads, scales of the receptacle undivided. 
St. round, the upper branches triquetrous. Petioles slender 
and narrowly winged. P. "VII. VIII." — The plant found at 
Friars Goose, and noticed in the time of Ray, must be examined 
before we can determine the claim of this plant to be considered 
as a true native. 
Tribe III. Amminece. 
5. Cicuta Linn. 
1. C.virosa (L.) ; fibres of the root filiform, 1. tripartite: 
leaflets linear-lanceolate acute serrate decurrent. — E. B. 479- — 
St. 3 — 4 feet high, very thick round and hollow below. Lower 
1. on long stalks : leaflets 1 — 2 in. long. Umbels large ; gene 
ral involucre 0, or of 1 or 2 slender leaflets ; partial of uumero 
subulate leaflets. Fl. white. Herb very poisonous. — Pon 
and ditches, not common. P. VI. — VIII. Water Hemloc 
Cowbane. 
