The following description is adopted from Professor 

 Sprengel. 



" Flowet's yellow. Stem about three feet high, round, 

 smooth, slightly branched, leafy, about as thick as the 

 middle finger: leaves ternately superdecompound, limber, 

 with sheathing, fivefoldedly tripartite limber petioles ; leaf- 

 lets pinnatifid, tender, limber (very like the fronds of the 

 Fern called Maiden-hair), segments short, linear, pointed, 

 turning brown when dry. Umbels terminal, 40-^0-rayed, 

 slightly uneven, smooth. Common Involucre slightly pin- 

 natifid; leaflets few, imperfect: partial one of many leaf- 

 lets, setaceous, and but little shorter than the partial um- 

 bels. Fruit surmounted by the permanent styles, oval, 

 compressed, with five obsolete ridges, and four sunken lines 

 along the back. 



Marked in the Hortus Kewensis as a biennial. Requires 

 the protection of a greenhouse. 



It has never been figured in any other work. 



