PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Eryngium. 
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Fl. Dan. 970—( E. Bot. 2544. E.)— Blackw. 444— Fuchs. 579— J. B. iii. 
572—Trag. 83 9—Lonic. i. 65. 1 —Ger. 604. 2 —Matth. 1204 —Dod. 39. 1 
—Lob. Obs. 319, Ic. i. 588. 2 —Ger. Em. 809. 2—Park. 1223. 4 —Gars. 
642. 
{Stem branched, twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves alternate, rough 
and pubescent. Racemes axillary, leafy, few-flowered. Fertile Jlowers 
immediately beneath the others. Bloss. green. Fruit oval, downy, beset 
with rigid hooked prickles. E.) 
Lesser Burdock. Burdock Clotweed. On dunghills and grounds 
highly manured, but rare. (Three miles from Portsmouth, on the Lon¬ 
don road ; and about Dulwich. Ray. Road-side between Dulwich and 
Iver, two miles from Colnbrook; between Staines and Egham. Gerard. 
E.) A. June—Sept.* 
ERYN'GIUM. Flowers capitate : general involucr. many¬ 
leaved : Recept. chaffy : Seeds rough with flexible scales. 
E. MARiThMUM. Root-leaves roundish, plaited, spinous: flowering 
heads on fruit-stalks: chaff three-cleft. 
Dicks. H. S. — {Hook. Fl. Land. 185— E. Bot. 718. E.)— Kniph. 9— Woodv. 
102— Fl. Dan. 875— Blackw. 297.1 and 11— Matth. 680— Clus. ii. 15C). 2— 
Dod . 730.1— Lob. Obs. 490.1 —Ger. Em. 1162.1 —Pet. 999.1—Park. 986. 
1— II. Ox. vii. 36. 6— J. B. iii. a. 86. 2. 
Plant a foot high, of a glaucous appearance, rigid. {Root very long, creep¬ 
ing, pungent. Teeth of the cup erect, spinous. Fl. Brit. E.) Root-leaves 
and lower stem-leaves three-cleft, on fruit-stalks ; upper embracing the 
stem. Leaf-stalks embracing the stem. Woodw. Leaves mealy on the 
surface, veined, with a whitish ligneous border; angles terminating in 
sharp whitish thorns. Blossom whitish blue. 
Sea Eryngo. Sea Holly. (Irish: Cuillin trahe. Welsh: Boglynon 
arfor. E.) Sea-shore, common. At Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. And 
on the sands at Hayle, Portowen, Portreath, and Penzance, Cornwall. 
Mr. Watt. North-shore, Liverpool. Mr. Caley. (At Shields Law, and 
Castle Eden, Durham. Mr. Winch. (Musselburgh, and Largo in Fife. 
Lightfoot. Ryde, Isle of Wight. Dr. Bostock. Allonby, Maryport, 
Cumberland. Hutchinson. Plentiful on the shores of Kent and Sussex. 
About Abergele, North Wales. On the Den at Teignmouth. E.) 
P. July.—Aug.t 
E. campes'tre. (Leaves embracing the stem, radical ones pinnatifid, 
spear-shaped: chaff undivided. E.) 
Jacq.Aust.155— Fuchs. 296—{E. Bot. 57. E.)— J. B. iii. a. 85— Matth. 679 
—Fl. Dan. 55b—Blackw.297. 2—Ger. 999. 2—Clus.il 157. 2—Dod. 730.2 
— Lob. Obs. 490.2— Ger. Em. 1162. 2— Park. 986.2— H. Ox. vii. 36. row 
2. n. l.f. 2 — Trag. 871. 
(This plant is more branched, more slender, and somewhat greener than 
* The leaves are bitter and astringent, (and were formerly in repute for the cure of 
scrophulous disorders, to which the specific name alludes. E.) A decoction of the whole 
plant affords a showy yellow colour; but it is better if only the flowers are used. Horses 
and goats eat it. Cows, sheep, and swine refuse it. (The seeds constitute the favourite 
food of the Carolina Parrot, or Paraquet. Wilson. E.) 
t The leaves are sweetish, with a slight aromatic warmth and pungency. (The young 
flowering shoots, eaten like Asparagus, are grateful and nourishing. E.) The roots are 
supposed to have the same aphrodisiac virtues as the Orchis tribe. They are kept in the 
shops candied ; (or may be given in decoction. E.) 
