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BUPL EURUM falcatum.
Falcate-leaved, Ilare’s-ear.
P E N T A N D R IA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Fruit ovate-oblong, obtuse, with prominent,
acute, abrupt ribs ; interstices fiat; juncture
contracted. Calyx none. Petals equal,
broadish wedge-shaped, very short, involute.
Styles very short, not extending beyond the circumference
of their broad tumid bases. Floral
receptacle none. Flowers all perfect and regular.—
Smith.
Spec. Char. Lower leaves obovate, stalked ; upper
linear-lanceolate, sessile. Partial involucrum of
5 lanceolate leaves, as long as the flowers ; general
1—5-leaved. Stem panicled, leafy.
Syn. Bupleurum falcatum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 341.
Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1. 1372. Jacq. Austr. t. 158.
DeCand. Prod. vA . 132. FI. Fr. ed. 3. v. 4. 347,
B. angustifolium Monspeliense. Ger. Em. 608. f . 1.
Merrett 17.
B. angustifolium. Park. Theatr. 578. 1.
(jCATHERED in August, 1832, at Norton Heath between
Chelmsford and Ongar, Essex, where I discovered
the plant in the preceding year. It grows by the road for
nearly a mile, most plentifully a little on the Chelmsford
side of the turnpike; and in great abundance in the hedges
between the fields to a considerable distance on both sides
of the road. The situation seems to preclude the idea of
an escape from gardens, in very few of which this Bupleurum
is, in fact, found cultivated.