. Flowers of the field. Botany. PARSLEY FAMILY 203 perfoliate, roundish, ovate, glaucous leaves, and large greenish- yellow, bristle-pointed bracteoles, thrice as long as the minute yellow flowers.—Cornfields on chalky soil; rare.—Fl. July. Annual. j 2. B. opdcum (Narrow-leaved Buplever), a small plant, 3—6 in. high, with pale, sword-shaped, 3—5-veined, rigid leaves, and 3 — 5 large, sharp-pointed I'rae- leoles concealing the umbels of greenish//ya'f^-j, occurs on sandy banks near Torquay and Eastbourne, and in the Channel Islands.—Fl. ]une, July. Annual. 3. B. teiuiissinuini (Slender Buplever
. Flowers of the field. Botany. PARSLEY FAMILY 203 perfoliate, roundish, ovate, glaucous leaves, and large greenish- yellow, bristle-pointed bracteoles, thrice as long as the minute yellow flowers.—Cornfields on chalky soil; rare.—Fl. July. Annual. j 2. B. opdcum (Narrow-leaved Buplever), a small plant, 3—6 in. high, with pale, sword-shaped, 3—5-veined, rigid leaves, and 3 — 5 large, sharp-pointed I'rae- leoles concealing the umbels of greenish//ya'f^-j, occurs on sandy banks near Torquay and Eastbourne, and in the Channel Islands.—Fl. ]une, July. Annual. 3. B. teiuiissinuini (Slender Buplever). — Stem slender, wiry, about a foot high ; 'leaves linear, acute, 3-veined ; timheh small; hraets and braeieoles narrow, subulate ; fltnvers minute, yellowish. — Salt marshes ; rare.—Fl. August, September. Annual. 4. B. falcdtum (Sickle- leaved Buplever). — Stem erect, slender, hollow, i—.4 feet high ; leaves oblong- lanceolate, curved, acute, 5— 7-veined, umbels small; bracts and braeieoles 2—5, as long as the minute yellow Jloivers. —Near Ongar, , and Herts.— Fl. August, Septem- ber. Perennial. g. Tki'nia (Honewort).— Glabrous, branched plants; (a leaves tripinnate : umbels com- pound, few-rayed ; bracts and braeieoles i—3 each ; flowers white, dicecious ; sepals inconspicuous ; petals with an inflexed tip, those of the staminate plants lanceolate, those of the pistillate plants ovate ; vitta' solitary, in the bases of the primar)' ridges. (Named in honour of Dr. Trinius, a Russian botanist.) I. T. glaiica (Honewort).—Glaucous, 3^^S in. high; stem solid, stout, grooved; branches divergent; leaves spreading, -with. BLTLEURU^I ROTLXDIFMLTIT-vr. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promotin
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