PL ex. caL 45. UMBELLIFERiE. 283. Critlmi. 51 £ 
Root torulose; stem 12 inches high, rather branched; 
leaves glaucous, bald ; umlells terminal, hemispherical ; 
umbellules crowded. — Herb in fruit pickled, used as sauce, 
XIX. 284. PIMPINELLA. Myrepsus. Bur net-saxifrage. 
Involucrum and involucella 0 ; calyx 0 ; petals nearly 
equal, bald, ovate, nicked ; lacinule contracted, indexed, 
channelled, crenulated; stigma globular; fruit ovate, round- 
ish; akenium ovate, 5-ribbed; vallecules rather convex, 
many vittated ; commissures banded, band white, longitudi- 
nal, in the middle; spermapodium bristlelike, 2-cut. — Um - 
bells before flowering drooping. 
1 . Pimpinella minor . Small lurnet-saxifrage. 
Stem striated, bald ; leaves pinnate, bald ; leaflets of the 
root-leaves roundish, acutely toothed; of the stem-leaves 
bipinnate, linear. 
Pimpinella saxifraga minor foliis sanguisorbae, Raii Syn. 213, 2. 
Bipinella, sive Saxifraga minor, Ger. em. 1044, 2. 
Pimpinella saxifraga major nostras, Park. 946. 
Pimpinella saxifraga, Lin.S. P. 378. 
Pimpinella rotundifolia, Scopoli Cam. 344. 
Tragoselinum Saxifraga, Mcenclt Meth. 99. 
Dry pastures; perennial; July and August. 
Root aromatic ; stem upright, rather rough ; flower -leaves 
strapshape or ternate. 
2. Pimpinella nigra . Black lurnet-saxifrage. 
Stem streaked, pubescent ; leaves pinnate, pubescent ; 
leaflets of the root-leaves nearly heartshape, cut, bluntly 
toothed ; of the stem-leaves bipinnate, linear. 
Pimpinella nigra, Willd. S. P. 1471. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga e, Rctz. Obs. 3, 45. 
Dry pastures; perennial; July and August. 
Root aromatic ; juice bluish ; stem and leaves white, to- 
mentose. — Root yields a blue essential oil, and communi- 
cates a blue colour to water or spirit when they are distilled 
from it. 
3. Pimpinella major. Great lurnet-saxifrage. 
Stem streaked, bald; leaves all pinnate, bald; leaflets 
ovate ; lobes serrated ; terminal leaflets 3-lobed. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga, Raii Syn . 213,1; Ger. em. 1044, 1. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga hircina major, Park . 947. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga, Hudson FI. Angl. 127, 
Pimpinella raagnn, Lin, Mant. 2,219. 
