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jagged, paler green and shining underneath. The central barren florets 
have no style, but in its place a concave glandular nectary filled with 
honey, similar to what crowns the germen in the fruit-bearing florets. 
Blossom whitish, (or sometimes stained reddish. E.) 
Wood Sanicle. (Welsh: Golchwraidd; Golchyddes . E.) Woods and 
thickets. P. May—June. 
BUPLEU'RUM.* Partial involucr. largest, of five leaves: 
Petals involute: Fruit egg-shaped, gibbous, striated, 
not crowned. 
B. rotundtfo'lium. General involucrum none : leaves perforated by 
the stem. 
Dick's. H. S. — E. Bot. 99— Kniph. 7— Riv. Pent. 46. Perfoliata. — Ger. 430. f l 
— Matth. 1156— Fuchs. 632— Trap;. 482— Blackw. 95— H. Ox. ix. 12. 1 — 
Dod. 104. I—Ger. Em. 536. 1 —Park. 580. 1 —J.B. iii. 6. 198. 1. 
From a foot to half a yard high. Leaves oval, smooth, bluish green, (some¬ 
times purplish at the edges, all decidedly perfoliate, alternate, sharp- 
pointed, fibred. E.) Flowers yellowish, on short fruit-stalks. 
Common Thoroughwax or Hare’s-ear. Corn-fields, chiefly in a calca¬ 
reous soil. Marham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Carlby, between Stamford 
and Bourn. Mr. Woodward. Near Amesbury, on Salisbury Plains, 
plentiful. (Near the rocks at Uckfield, Sussex, by the foot-path to Pilt 
Down. Mr. Borrer, in Bot. Guide. In every arable field near Copgrove, 
Yorkshire. Rev. J. Dalton. Boxhill, Surry. Mr. Winch. Bidford, Has- 
lor, and Grafton, Warwickshire: Badsey, and Bretforton, Worcestershire. 
Purton. E.) A. June-—July. 
B. tenuis'simum. (Umbels simple, alternate, three-flowered: invo- 
lucrum five awl-shaped bracteas. E.) 
(E. Bot. 478— FI. Dan. 1090. E.)— Col. Ecphr. 247. 2— J. B. vi. 201. 2— 
H. Ox. ix. 12. row 3. 
(A stiff, acrid plant, smooth, branched from the bottom. Branches upright, 
spreading, gently winding, undivided, leafy. Leaves alternate, spear- 
shaped, narrow, sharp-pointed, widening at the base. Fruit angular. 
FI. Brit. E.) Flowers yellowish. 
Least Thoroughwax. (Slender Hare’s-ear. E.) Salt marshes 
and meadows. Salt ditches, near Lynn Regis. Sir J. E. Smith. Malden, 
Essex. Boggy ground at the west end of St. Vincent’s Rocks, near 
Cook’s Folly. Dr. Broughton. Salt-water ditches, Wisbeach. Rev. R. 
Relhan. Banks of the Tees, near Stockton. Mr. Robson. (Abundant 
near the Semaphore, Dimchurch, Kent. Mr. Gerard E. Smith. E.) 
A. July—Aug. 
(B. odontPtes. Partial involucrum of five egg-shaped, awned, three- 
ribbed leaves: general, of three or four: branches widely spread¬ 
ing : umbels all stalked: leaves spear-shaped. 
E. Bot. 2468— Jacq. Hort. Vind. if. 91. 
(From an ox, and 7rX£upov, the side; from the large rib-like fibres of its leaves. E.) 
