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B U P L E -U R UM odontites.
Narrow-leaved Hare’s-ear.
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PENTANDRIA Digynia.
G e n . C h a r . Partial Involucrum of five leaves,
longer than the umbels. Petals infiexed. Calyx
obsolete. Fruit roundish, compressed, striated.
S p e c . C h a r . Partial involucrum of five ovate, awned,
three-ribbed leaves; general of three or four.
Branches widely spreading. Umbels all stalked.
Leaves lanceolate.
S v n . Bupleurum odontites . Linn. Sp. PI. 3 4 2 . Sm,
Prod. F I. Guec. Sibth. v. 1. 177- -/it. Hort. Kew.
ed. 2, v. 2. 1 2 1 . Jacq. Hort. Find. v. 3. 1. g i .
Perfoliata minima, bupleuri folio. Column. Ecphr.
v. 1. 8 4 . t. 24f . ƒ. 1, (Perfoliatum angustifoliura
montanum.)
T h IS new addition to the Flora of Britain was gathered by the
Rev. H. Beeke, ,D.D. early in July last, on the marble rocks
about Torquay, Devonshire, where it is unquestionably wild. "We
indeed received a very diminutive specimen ten years ago from
Devonshire, by favour of the Rev. Aaron Neck, which is subjoined
to our principal figure. This last represents the usual wild appearance
of the plant. Jacquin’s plate gives, with equal exactness,
the different habit it assumes in a garden. The Linnaean
herbarium contains both on one sheet of paper.
This species is annual, flowering in July. It may easily be
distinguished from the other two of British growth, t. 99 and
t. 478. The stem is branched and much divaricated. Leaves
lanceolate, acute; the lower ones rather spatulate. The leaves
of the general involucrum have five ribs, of which the lateral
ones are close together; those of the partial involucrum have
usually three, sometimes attended by two more, near the margin.
The petals are cream-coloured, with a tinge of red. Anthers
yellow, large and conspicuous. The herb is astringent and bitter,
rigid and smooth.