PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Pimpinella. 395 
P. saxif'raga. Leaves winged: leafits on the root-leaves roundish, 
those of the upper ones strap-shaped. 
(E. Bot. 407. E.) 
Umbels at first drooping. ( Roots strong and woody, aromatic. Stem 
twelve to eighteen inches high, erect, cylindrical, roughish, firm, slightly 
branched upwards. Umbels terminal, flattish. Flowers white, small, 
nearly equal; stamens long. Grev. E.) 
Var. 1. All the leafits egg-shaped, serrated. 
Tabern. Ic. 88; 255, 1 and 2 of the Germ. Edit.—Ger. 887, 1 and 2 — J. B* 
iii. 2. Ill, 1 and 2 — H. Ox. ix. 5. 6— Trag. 466— Fuchs. 609 — Matth . 
1032. 
P. saxifraga a. FI. Suec. P. minor /3. FI. Lapp. There is a wonderful 
diversity in the size and in the foliage of these plants. The root-leaves 
are winged, the leafits egg-shaped and serrated; but the stem-leaves are 
many-cleft, the leafits strap-shaped. It often happens that the root- 
leaves become like those on the stem, and then it has been erroneously 
supposed a distinct species. Linn. 
Var. 2. Leafits on the root-leaves egg-shaped, serrated, those on the stem- 
leaves strap-shaped, mostly entire ; floral-leaves strap-shaped. 
Jacq. Austr. 395— Clus. ii. 197. 2— Dod. 315. 2— Lob. Obs. 413. 1, and Ic. 
719. 2—Ger. Em. 1044. 2—Park. 947. 4 —Cam. Epit. 776. 
Var. 3. Leafits on the root-leaves egg-shaped, serrated; on the lower stem- 
leaves deeply wing-cleft: floral-leaves winged. 
FI. Dan. 669— Blackw. 472— Biv. Pent. 83. Pimpinella minor. 
P. minor a. F. Lapp. 106. 
Var. 4. All the leaves doubly winged, leafits strap-shaped, mostly entire; 
floral-leaves winged. 
Specimens from the Rev. R. Relhan. 
Var. 5. Dissecta. Root-leaves doubly winged, leafits wing-cleft, segments 
entire; stem-leaves doubly winged, leafits entire; floral-leaves cloven at 
the end. 
Betz. iii. t. 2. 
The first spring leaves the first year of its growth are simply winged, the 
leafits roundish, but when these vanish it never puts forth other than 
such as are described above. 
P. dissecta. Retz. (Observed on Arthur’s Seat by Dr. Graham. Grev. 
Edin. E.) 
Var. 6 All the leaves winged, leafits wing-cleft, segments spear-shaped; 
floral-leaves wing-cleft. 
Jacq. Austr. 397— Gouan. III. 15— Biv. Pent. 80. Pimpinella. 
P. orientalis. Gouan. Jacq. 
All the above varieties are occasioned by the different age of the plant, and 
the greater or lesser expansion of its foliage according to the soil in which 
it grows. It is probable that the first fruit leaves are the same in all, 
that is, simply winged, the leafits egg-shaped and serrated. When these 
disappear, the lower leaves have wing-cleft, or doubly winged leaves, 
and the upper leaves become also more compound with the rest. 
