Adoxa. \ 
XXXIX. ARALIACEA2. 
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40. Eciiinophora Linn. Prickly Samphire. (Tab. III. f. 40.) 
Fruit ovate, lodged in a prickly receptacle, with a prickly 
involucre. Carpels with 5 depressed, waved and striate, equal 
smooth ribs, and simple vittee in the interstices which are covered 
with a cobweb-like membrane. Albumen involute. Pet. ob- 
cordate, with an inflected point. (Involucres many-leaved.) 
— Name derived from i\ivoc, a hedgehog , and <pepw, to bear ; 
in reference to the prickly nature of the plant. 
1. E. *spinvsa L. ( Sea-side P, or Sea-Parsnep) ; leaves bi- 
pinnatifid, the segments trifid subulate spinous, involucres 
entire spinous. E. B. t. 2413. 
Sandy sea-shores, Lancashire and Kent. If. 7. — A very prickly 
and singular plant, now, we fear, quite lost as a native of Britain. 
The flowers of the circumference have stamens only, and at length 
unite by the base, and surround the solitary central fertile one like 
an involucre. 
Ord. XXXIX. ARALIACEiE Juss. 
Calyx-tube adnate in whole or in part with the ovary , entire 
or cleft. Petals 4 — 10, rarely cohering, or none; aestivation 
valvular. Stamens equal in number to the petals or twice as 
many, from the margin of an epigynous disk. Ovary 2- or more 
celled : ovules solitary pendulous. Styles as many as cells. 
Stigmas simple. Fruit fleshy or dry, of several 1 -seeded cells. 
Seed with a fleshy albumen , and a minute embryo. — Trees, 
shrubs, or herbs ; nearly allied to Umbelliferae. Panax affords 
the Ginseng. 
1. Adoxa. Corolla monopetalous, rotate. Stem slender, herbaceous. 
2. Hedera. Corolla of 5 petals. Stem woody. 
1. Adoxa Linn. Moschatel. 
Cal. half-inferior, 3-cleft. Cor. superior, rotate, 4 — 5-cleft. 
Stain. 8 — 10, inserted by pairs, each bearing a 1 -celled anther. 
Berry 4 — 5-seeded. (The side-flowers have the corolla 5-cleft, 
the terminal one 4-cleft.) — Name: from a, without , and So%a, 
glory; from the humble and insignificant aspect of this little 
flower. 
1. A. Moscliatellina L. ( tuberous M.) : E. B. t. 453. 
Woods, hedge-banks, and shady places ; not unfrequent at a great 
elevation and even near the tops of Highland mountains. 2/.- 4, 5. 
— Rhizome composed of tooth-like scales, creeping. Stem about a 
span high. Leaves 2 — 3, radical, on very long footstalks triterrrate, 
lobed and cut, 2 cauline ones small and simply ternate. Peduncles 
