Penny-pies?

stem brittle and leaves fairly brittle too. It smelled fairly familiar, perhaps like crushed mange tout pea pods. The brittleness and 'lush-ness' certainly reminded me of mange tout pea pods Are the purple bits xylem and/or phloem? from what I remember the flowers were on a vertical spike like a common heath orchids flowers but they were more sparse than a common heath orchids flowers. Wikipedia says U. rupestris can be used medicinally (and perhaps can be eaten too?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicus_rupestris#Medicinal_Usage Previously I thought it could be Hydrocotyle vulgaris: According to wikipedia H. vulgaris is the only native Hydrocotyle species (although there is at least one other invading species: Hydrocotyle ranuculoides) in Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocotyle_vulgaris