( 411 .) 
PIMPINE'LLA* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Penta'ndria f, Digy'nia. 
Natural Order. Umbelli'fer^:^, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 218. — Sm. 
Gram, of Bot. p. 132. — Lindl. Syn. p. Ill ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. 
of Bot. p. 4. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 463. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 
517. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v..iii. p. 235. — Mack. 
FL Hibern. p. 1 13. — Hook. Brit. FI. (4th ed.) p. 408. — Umbellate, 
Linn. — Rosales ; sect.ANGELiciN.® ; type.ANGELicACE^: ; subty. 
Angelicidje ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. ii. pp. 614, 770, 773, & 774. 
Gen. Char. Flowers (see fig. 1.) all regular and perfect. Calyx 
an obsolete margin. Corolla (fig. 1.) of 5, equal, or nearly equal, 
inversely egg-shaped, emarginate, indexed petals. Filaments (see 
fig. 1.) hair-like, spreading, longer than the corolla. Anthers 
roundish. Germen ( see fig. 2.) inferior, egg-shaped, a little com- 
pressed, smooth, finely ribbed. Styles (see figs. 1 & 2.) 2, hair- 
like, somewhat spreading, short in the flower, afterwards as long 
as the fruit, or ionger, tumid, and nearly globular, at the base. 
Stigmas blunt, somewhat capitate. Floral Receptacle none. Fruit 
contracted at the side, egg-shaped, crowned with the swollen base 
of the reflexed styles. Carpels (see fig. 3.) with 5, equal, slender 
ridges, of which the two lateral ones form a margin . Interstices 
( channels ) furrowed, with many vittce. Seeds convex, flattish in 
the front, lnvolucrum none. Flowers white. 
The obsolete calyx ; the inversely egg-shaped, inflexed petals ; 
the egg-shaped fruit, crowned with the swollen base of the reflexed 
styles; and the carpels with 5 slender, equal ridges, with many 
vittce in each channel ; will distinguish this from other genera, 
without an involucrum, in the same class and order. 
Two species British. 
PIMPINE'LLA SAXI'FRAGA. Common Burnet- Saxifrage. 
Saxifrage Anise. 
Spec. Char. Stems slightly striated, pubescent. Leaves pin- 
nate; leaflets of the root-leaves roundish; those of the stem in 
various strap-shaped segments. Styles shorter than the germen. 
Fruit egg-shaped. 
Engl. Bot. t. 407.— Fl. Dan. t. 669.— Jacq. FI. Aust. t. 395.— Mart. FI. Rust. t. 
127.— Woodv. Mod. Bot. v. iii. p. 488. t. 179. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 378.— Huds. Fl. 
Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 127.— Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. pt. n. p. 1471.— Sm. Fl. Brit. v. i. p. 
331. ; Engl. Fl, v. ii. p. 89.— With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 395. — Lindl. Syn. p. 121. — 
Hook. Brit. Fl. p. 126. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 292. — Macr. 
Man. Brit. Bot. p. 99. — Lightf. Fl. Scot. v. i. p. 169.— Sibth. Fl. Oxon. p. 102. — 
Abbot’s Fl. Bedf. p. 68. — Thomp. PI. of Berw. p. 32. — Thornt. Fam. Herb. p. 304, 
the text only, the figure represents Poterium sanguisorba. — Davies’ Welsh Bot. p. 
30.— Purt. Midi. Fl. v. i. p. 157.— Relh. Fl. Cant. (3rd ed.) p. 126.— Hook. Fl. 
Scot. p. 95.— Grev. Fl. Edin. p. 69.— Fl. Devon, pp. 53 & 168.— Johnst. Fl. of 
Fig. 1. A Flower. — Fig. 2. A unripe Fruit. — Fig. 3. Transverse section of a ripe 
Fruit. — Fig. 4. A Root-leaf of the variety dissecta. — Figs. 1, 2. & 3. magnified. 
* Altered, as Linn«us informs us, from bipennula, or twice pinnated, in allu- 
sion to the divisions of the leaves. 
t See folio 48, note +. 
f See folio 235, a. 
