374 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Heracleum. 
some of the central ones sometimes barren. Petals pointed, yellowish. 
Germen crowned with a glandular yellow receptacle, turning to a deep 
red as the seeds ripen. 
(Meadow Pepper-Saxifrage. C. Silaus. Spreng. Sm. Peucedanum 
Silaus. Linn. With. Jacq. Willd. Hook. Moist meadows and pastures. 
P. July—Sept.* * * § 
CRITH'MUM.f* ( Florets uniform, all fertile : Fruit oval, stri¬ 
ated, coriaceous: Petals broad at the base : Calyx en¬ 
tire. E.) 
C. MARiT f iMUM. Leafits spear-shaped, fleshy. 
Jacq. Hort.ii. 187—( E.Bot . 819. E.)— Kniph. 8— Pod. 705. 1— Lob. Ohs. 
213. 2; and Ic. i. 392. 2 —Ger. Em. 533. 1— J. B . iii. 2. 194— H. Ox. ix. 
7. row 1. 1— Lon. 1.257— Matth. 48 9-—Ger. 427. 1. 
(Whole plant very succulent, obscure green, and fleshy. Stems about a 
foot long, not very upright, cylindrical, leafy but little branched. Um¬ 
bels hemispherical, crowded, yellowish. Leajits strap-spear-shaped, 
smooth, glaucous. Petals greenish white, small, incurved. E.) 
Rock Samphire. (Sea Samphire. Irish: Creuhirg. Welsh: Corn 
Carw ; Ffenigl y mor. E.) Sea coast. On the chalk cliffs near the 
Needles, Isle of Wight. Stokes. On all the cliffs of the Cornish coast. 
Mr. Watt. On the rocks at Dunnerholme, and above Cartmel Wells, 
on the sea shore, growing out of the crevices of the rocks and difficult to 
reach. Mr. Atkinson. (Rocks by the sea side south of Whitehaven. 
Hutchinson. Mull of Galloway. Mr. Winch. Rocks of Babicombe bay, 
Devon, covered with it. Rev. Pike Jones. In the crevices of the cliffs in 
Portland, and on the Purbeck coast, especially about Tineham, whence 
great quantities are collected for pickling. Pulteney. On the Holmes 
Islands, in the Severn. On the cliffs of the South Foreland, and Hay 
cliff, near Dover, rendered classical ground by the sublime description of 
Shakspeare. E.) P. Aug.J 
HERACLE'UM.^ Involucr. deciduous: Flowers radiate: Pe¬ 
tals incurved, notched at the end : Seeds compressed, 
membranous, encompassed by a narrow border. 
* (The plant being fetid when bruised, has been supposed to give a rank flavour to milk 
and butter, but Smith says it is more usually rejected than eaten by cattle. E.) 
t (From xpiQy), barley ; the seeds somewhat resembling that grain. E.) 
J (“ Come on, Sir, here’s the place—stand still. How fearful 
And dizzy ’tis, to cast one’s eyes so low ! 
The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, 
Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way dowm 
Hangs one that gathers Samphire; dreadful trade ! ” 
Samphire, detersive in quality, warm and aromatic in flavour, is much sought after for 
pickling, sometimes at the risk of human life, (men being suspended from the rocks by 
ropes,) though other plants procurable at less hazard, as Salicornia and Aster, are frequently 
substituted. It is, likewise, eaten raw as a salad. This trivial name is supposed to be 
derived from the French St. Pierre , though not easily connected with the subject before 
us. We could almost imagine that some reference must have been whimsically intended 
to the original meaning of the word Peter , a rock , such being the invariable locality of 
our plant; as likewise to its pre-eminence both in station and utility. E.) 
§ (Supposed from HpaxXxj, Hercules, as dedicated to him. Bohmer rather apprehends 
it to have been named after Heraclides, the father of Hippocrates. E.) 
