364 PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. Tordylium. 
Stem branched, a few inches high, and much divaricated: the lower leaves 
rather spatulate : petals cream-coloured, with a tinge of red : anthers yel¬ 
low, large. Herb astringent and bitter. 
Narrow-leaved Hare’s Ear. Gathered by the Rev. H. Beeke, D. D. on 
the marble rocks about Torquay, Devon. E. Bot. A. July. E.) 
TORDYL'IUM.* Bloss. radiate, all the florets fertile : Invo - 
lucr. long, undivided: Seeds globular, compressed, with 
a tumid border. 
T. maximum. Umbels crowded, radiate: leafits spear-shaped, cut- 
serrated : (stem rough with deflexed bristles. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 200. E.)— Jacq. Austr. 142— Riv. Pent. 1. Tordylium — 
{E. Bot. 1173. E.)—Clus. ii. 201. 1—Ger. Em. 1021. 4 —Lob. Ic. i. 737. 
Stem striated, (hollow, three or four feet high, leafy, E.) rough with de¬ 
flexed hairs. Leafits seven-cut, pubescent, the odd one twice the size of 
the others. Fruit-stalk stiff, straight, much longer than the leaves. 
Umbels few, rigid, rough. Umbellules about nine. Involucrum five¬ 
leaved, slender, expanding, shorter than the umbel. Involucellums five¬ 
leaved, awl-shaped, as long as the umbellule, the two inner leafits 
smaller. Blossom radiate, white, red underneath. Florets all fertile. 
Seeds circular, flatted, hispid; the border thicker, prickly, red. Linn. 
Ray suspects that neither this nor the next species are aborogines, but 
rather the outcasts of gardens. 
(Great Hart-wort. E.) Banks of fields. About London. Morison. 
Under the hedge on the north side of the Parks, Oxford. Dr. J. Sibthorpe 
and Mr. Woodward. Hedges near Eton wick, in the greatest abundance, 
(1803.) Mr.Gotobed. E.) A. June. 
T. officinale. Partial involucrums as long as the flowers: leafits 
egg-spear-shaped, (cut, crenate ; stem pubescent. E.) 
(j E, Bot. 2440— Pet. 24. 6. E.)— Hod. 314— Lob. Obs. 425. 1— Ger . Em. 
1050. 1 —J. B. iii. b. 4. 2— Park. 906. 8— Ger. 894. 
{Stem furrowed, covered with short, soft hairs, (leafy, about a foot high. 
E.) Leaves hairy and rough. Leafits oblong, sharply serrated and cut. 
Flowers flesh-coloured, the outer petals very large, radiating. FI. Brit. 
E.) Lower leaves with two pairs of little leaves. Little leaves hairy, on 
leaf-stalks, the odd one at the end with three lobes ; those of the upper 
leaves spear, or strap-spear-shaped, deeply serrated. Florets tinged with 
purple. Seeds large, flat, with broad, raised, notched edges. Woodw. 
T. maximum and officinale are readily distinguished by observing that in 
the former the terminating leafit of the stem-leaves is strap-spear-shaped, 
in the latter short and rather wedge-shaped; and that the partial involu¬ 
crums in the former are longer, in the latter shorter than the florets. 
(Smith remarks that Riv. Pent. Irr.t. 2, and Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 53, for¬ 
merly referred to this plant, belong to another species, T. apulum of 
Linn, readily distinguished by having, in each marginal flower, only one 
radiant petal, with two equal lobes. Vid. Linn. Tr. v. xii. E.) 
* (Possibly from the singular shape of the seed, appearing as if turned; from ropvos , a 
turning lathe, and eiXvw, to turn round. E.) 
