168 xxxviii. uiibellifervE. \Hydroc 6 tyle. 
2. (G.) Fruit prickly, or with a prickly involucre. 
t Carpels with 3 dorsal primary bristly ribs, and prickles between them. 
37. Daucits. Albumen solid. Fruit dorsally compressed, with promi- 
nent ribs. 
38. Caucalts. Albumen involute at the suture. Fruit slightly com- 
pressed laterally, with prominent (secondary) ribs. 
39. Torilis. Albumen furrowed. Fruit slightly compressed laterally, 
without evident ribs. 
ft Carpels each with 5 dorsal depressed smooth ribs. Involucre prickly. 
40. Echenophora. Albumen involute. 
I. Umbels simple or imperfectly compound. Fruit without vittce. 
Albumen solid. (Gen. 1 — 3.) 
* Fruit laterally compressed. 
1. Hydrocotyle Linn. White-rot. (Tab. I. f. ],) 
Fruit of 2 flat, orbicular carpels, each with 5, more or less dis- 
tinct, filiform ribs. Cal. -teeth obsolete. Pet. ovate. (Leaves 
simple .) — Named from vlwp, water , and kovuAjj, a cup or vase; 
the common species growing in wet places, and having orbicular 
leaves depressed in the middle and stalked in the centre. 
1. H. vulgaris L. ( common TV., or Marsh- Pennywort) ; leaves 
peltate orbicular somewhat lobed and crenate, heads of about 
5 flowers. E. B. t. 751. 
Bogs, marshes, and banks of lakes, frequent, 'if.. 5 — 8. — Stems 
creeping, producing from their joints petiolate leaves and simple 
flower-stalks, which are much shorter than the petioles. Flowers often 
with a reddish tinge. Fruit emarginate at the base. 
** Tranverse section of fruit nearly rounck 
2. Sani'cula Linn. Sanicle. (Tab. I. f. 2.) 
Fruit ovate, densely clothed with hooked prickles. Cal.-teeth 
leafy. Pet. erect, obovate, with long inflected points. ( Some 
flowers abortive .) — Name derived from sano, to heal; because 
this plant was once supposed “ to make whole and sound all 
inward hurts and outward wounds.” 
1. S. Europce'a L. (Wood S .) ; lower leaves palmate with the 
lobes trifid inciso-serrate, fertile flowers all sessile. E. B. t. 98. 
Woods and thickets, frequent. 1+ . 6, 7. — Leaves mostly radical, 
finely serrate, almost ciliate. Heads of flowers small, white; there 
are often sterile flowers which are shortly stalked. 
[Astrantia major L., observed in one or two places, has no claim to 
be considered a native.]. 
