PENTANDRIADIGYNIA. 45 
ECHINOPHORA. Sampire or Sea Parsnep. 
The general umbel has many rays, the intermediate 
ones the fhorter. The partiah^one hath many lefTiie flow- 
ers, and the germina within the pedicles. The general 
involucrum hath a few acute rays. The partial one is 
turbinated, mohophyllous, cut into fix acute unequal 
fegments. The proper cup is quinquihd, fmali, and re- 
mains till the fruit be ripe. The general flower is dif- 
form and radiated, the proper one is pentapetalous with 
unequal patulent petals. The five filaments are fimple 
with roundifh anthers. The germen is oblong and be- 
neath the flower and within the involucrum, with two 
fimple fl-yles and ftigmata. There is no feed veffel, but 
in the place thereof we find an indurated, fharp pointed 
involucrum, coiltaining two feeds. 
Spinofa, Sampire with prickly heads and fubnlated 
prickly leaves that are entire. On the fea-fhore. Ob- 
ferved by Mr. Lawson in Low Furnefs LancaJJiire, 
Mr. West told me he found it lail year in Lozv Furnefs. 
Found in the way from Feverfliam to S^a Salter. Blacks 
Spec. Bot. July. 
TORDYLIUM. Parsley, 
The general umbel is unequal and multiplex, the, par- 
tial one is unequal, multiplex, very fhort and plain. 
The general involucrum is compofed of narrow undi- 
vided leaves being the length of the rays of the umbel, 
the partial one is half the length, and the proper cup is 
quinquedentated. The general flower is diflbrm and 
radiated, and all the flowers are fertile. The proper 
flower of the difk hath five petals that are inflexo-cordate 
and unequal; the proper flowers of the ray are the fame, 
but theoutmoft petal is largeft and bipartite. In every 
flower there are five capillary flamina with fimple an- 
therae. The germen is roundifh and beneath the flower, 
having two fmall flyles and obtufe ftigmata. The fruit 
