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PHYSOSPE'RMUM* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Pf.nta'ndria f, Digy'.nia. 
Natural Order. Umbelli'fer.e +, Juss. Gen. PL p. 218. — Sm. 
Gram, of Bot. p. 132. — Lindl. Syn. p. 111.; 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. 
FI. Hibern. p. 113. — Hook. Brit. FI. (4th ed.)p.408. — Umbellat.e, 
Linn . — Rosales; sect. Angelicinje ; type, Smyrniacee; 
subtype, Scandicid^e ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. ii. pp. 614, 770, 780, 
and 781. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (see fig. 2.) of 5 small, pointed, upright, 
permanent teeth ; broad at the base. Corolla (see fig. 1.) of 5 in- 
versely egg-shaped, somewhat emarginate, inflexed petals. Fila- 
ments (see fig. t.) 5, thread -shaped, spreading, shorter than the 
corolla. Anthers roundish. Germen (see fig. 2.) oblong, blunt, 
moderately compressed, furrowed. Styles in the flower scarcely 
longer than the calyx, upright, angular, tumid at the base ; sub- 
sequently a little elongated, spreading, permanent. Stigmas, simple. 
Fruit (fig. 3.) unarmed, contracted at the side, double. Carpels 
roundish, uniform, each with 5 indistinct ribs, and single v it tee 
between them. Seed involute, lunate. Universal and partial 
Involucrum of many leaves. Flowers white. 
The 5-toothed calyx ; the inversely egg-shaped, somewhat emar- 
ginate, inflexed petals ; the unarmed, double fruit, contracted at the 
side ; the roundish, uniform carpels , each with 5 indistinct ribs, 
of which the lateral ones are placed within the margin ; and the 
interstices with single vittce ; will distinguish this from other genera 
in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
PHYSOSPE'RMUM CORNUBIE'NSE. Cornish Bladder-seed. 
Cornish Lovage. Cornwall Saxifrage. 
Spec. Char. Lower leaves twice or thrice ternate, smooth; 
leaflets wedge-spear-shaped, deeply toothed; uppermost leaves 
reduced to the sheaths, each sheath bearing three strap-shaped, 
nearly entire leaflets. 
Physospe’rmcm coksubie'nse, De Cand. Prod. v. iv. p. 246. — Ilook. Brit. Ft. 
p. 133. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Card, and Bot. v. iii. p. 3S0. — Maer. Man. Brit. Bot. 
p. 107. — Physospermurn commutdtum, Spreng. Umbell. Spec. p. 22. t. 4. f. 8., 
exclusive of many synonymes. — Lindl. Syn. p. 126. — Da/iua aquileyifolia. Lag. 
Am. Nat. v. ii. p. 1)7 ! ex. synonyme of Spreng . — Pseu dospe rm u rn commu- 
tdtum, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 517. — Cigusticum cornubiense, Linn. Sp. PL 
p. 359 ; Amen. Acad. v. iv. p. 310. — Huds. Ft. Angl. (2nd ed.) p. 1 18. — Engl. Bot. 
t. 683. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. pt. II. p. 1426. — Sm. Ft. Brit. v. i. p. 310.; Ic. l'ict. 
Plant. Rar. t. 11.; Engl. Ft. v. ii. p. 82. — Prod. Ft. Graeo. v. i. p. 193. — With. 
(7th ed. ) p. 376. — Irv. Loud. FI. p. 233. — Smyrnium tenufulium nostras , Ray’s 
Hist. v. iii. p. 254. — Dill, in Ray’s Syn. p. 209. t. 8. — Cornwall Saxifrage, Pet. 
H. Brit. t. 26. f. 9. 
Fig. 1. A Flower — Fig. 2 Germen and Styles. — Fig. 3. Fruit. — Fig. 4. Traus- 
verse section of ditto. — Figs. 1 and 4 magnified. 
* From physa, Gr. a bladder ; and sperma, Gr. a seed. 
■f See fol. 48, note -(•. t See fol. 235, a. 
