8. BupLEURUM (Buplever).—Erect, smooth plants; eaves
reduced to simple, entire sheaths ; «smde/s compound ; bracts and
bracteoles sometimes numerous and leafy ; sepals absent ; petals
yellow, inflexed ; fruit oblong ; carfe/s with 5 usually prominent
ridges. (Name said to be from the Greek dows, an ox, and pleuron,
a rib, from the ribbed leaves of some species.)

1. B. rotundifolium (Common Hare’s-ear or Thorow-wax).—
A singular plant, well distinguished by its branched szem ;


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perfoliate, roundish, ovate, glaucous /eaves, and large greenish-
yellow, bristle-pointed éracteoles, thrice as long as the minute
yellow /lowers.—Cornfields on chalky soil; rare.—Fl. July.
Annual.
2. B. opdcum (Narrow-leaved Buplever), a small plant, 3—6
in. high, with pale, sword-shaped, 3—5-veined, rigid eaves, and 3
—5 large, sharp-pointed drac-
teoles concealing the umbels
of greenish /owers, occurs on
sandy banks near Torquay
and Eastbourne, and in the
Channel Islands.—Fl. June,
July. Annual.
3. B. tenuissimum (Slender
Buplever). — Stem _ slender,
wiry, about a foot high ; /eaves
linear, acute, 3-veined ; wmde/s
small; dracts and bracteoles
narrow, subulate; lowers
minute, yellowish. — Salt
marshes ; rare.—Fl. August,
September. Annual.
. B. falcdtum (Sickle-
leaved Buplever). — Stem
erect, slender, hollow, 1—4
feet high; /eaves oblong-
lanceolate, curved, acute, 5—
7-veined, wmbels small ; bracts
and bracteoles 2—5, as long
as the minute yellow //owers.
—Near Ongar, Essex, and
Herts.—Fl. August, Septem-
ber. Perennial.
