362 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Sanicula. 
the former species. E.) Root and lower stem-leaves on leaf-stalks, doubly 
and trebly wing-cleft. Leaf-stalks long, sheathing the stem at the base. 
Woodw. When the stalk is completely devoloped, the root-leaves are 
fallen off, or at least less perceptible. Roth. E.) Petals blue, sometimes 
white, or yellowish, (narrow, indexed. E.) 
Field Eryngo. Eryngium. Blackw. a Trew, n. 297. St. (In waste 
ground, rare. E.) Watling-street Road, opposite Brockhall, near Da- 
ventry. (As long ago observed by — Thornton, Esq. and recorded in 
Morton’s Hist, and Ray. The plant has been nearly extirpated at this 
station; though a specimen may now and then be collected near the 
Dial-house. E.) On a rock by the road leading down to the ferry from 
Plymouth into Cornwall. On the shore called Friar’s Goose, near New¬ 
castle-upon-Tyne. Ray Syn. 222, (supposed by Mr. Winch to have been 
originally introduced there from Holland. E.) About Sunderland Bal¬ 
last Hills and Newcastle. Mr. Robson. (Below Melling, in Yorkshire, 
plentifully. Blackstone. E.) P. July—Aug.* * * § 
HYDROCCKTYLE.+ Umbel simple, stalked: Involucr. of 
two or four leaves: Petals entire: Fruit compressed, 
gibbous, divisible into two parts. 
H. vulga'ris. Leaves target-shaped, cloven at the base: umbels five- 
flowered. 
(Curt. IV. E. — E. Rot. 751. E.)— FI. Dan. 90— Dod. 133. 1— Lob. Obs. 
209. 4— Ger. Em. 529. 5— Ger. 424. 3 —Park. 1214— Pet. 6. 12. 
Stems creeping, (prostrate, extending a few feet, E.) and striking root. 
Leaves circular, smooth. Leaf-stalks smooth, cylindrical. Fruit-stalks 
from the base of the leaf-stalks. Umbels two on a fruit-stalk, small, one 
springing out of the other, each containing from four to six flowers. 
Flowers small, reddish white, (on peduncles about an inch long; bracteas 
minute; petals broadly lanceolate. E.) 
Marsh Pennywort. White-rot. (Welsh: Toddaidd wen; Crony 
gweunydd. E.) Marshy ground. P. June.f 
SANIC'ULA.^ Umbellules crowded, somewhat capitate : Flo¬ 
rets of the centre barren : Fruit set with hooked prickles. 
S. Europ^'a. Root-leaves simple: florets all sessile. 
FI. Dan. 283— Blackw. 63— E. Bot. 98— Wale.—Fuchs. 671— Trag. 509— 
Riv. Pent. 31. Sanicula — Bod. 140. 1— Ger. Em. 948— Ger. 801— Col. 
Phytob. 16-— H. Qx. v. 34. row 3. 1— Lob. Obs. 378. 2— Park. 532. 1— 
Matth. 1019. 
(Root of numerous black fibres. Petals of the female florets deciduous. FI. 
Brit. E.) A foot or half a yard high. Root-leaves five-lobed, segments 
* (This plant, dried and powdered, forms the principal ingredient of a remedy celebrated 
in Spain for the cure of the bites of vipers and mad dogs, particulars of which may be seen in 
the Month. Mag. vol. 29.p. 414. E.) 
t (From w r ater, and hotuAij, a cavity; the form of the leaves being capable of 
containing water. E.) 
t (Herb acrid, and, as Smith observes, like others of the umbelliferous tribe growing in 
wet places, probably poisonous. The farmers suppose that it occasions the rot in sheep. "Vid. 
Pinguicula vulgaris. E.) 
§ (A diminutive from sano ,-to heal or cure; alluding to its supposed vulnerary qualities, 
now altogether neglected. E.) 
