428 DR. Gd. E. POST: DIAGNOSES 
root-leaves, 6-8 inches long, with greater segments an inch long, 
4-5 lines broad; its slender, almost naked, much-branched stems 
with rudimentary leaves; its minute umbels, 6-7 lines broad ; 
and its very minute fruit, half a line broad. 
SCALIGERIA CAPILLIFOLIA. Radix minuta globosa, caule gra- 
cili tereto elato alternatim et patule ramosissimo, foliis radicalibus 
ambitu ovatis caulinisque in lacinias setaceas decompositis, 
umbellis breviter 3-4-radiatis, involucro nullo, involucelli phyllis 
subulatis acutis umbellulas 4-6-floras superantibus, pedicellis flore 
fructuque vix longioribus, petalis albis, fructu globoso stylopodio 
depresso mammillari stylisque brevibus deflexis superato nitido. 
Hab. in sylvaticis Amani supra Hassan Beyley et in monte 
Akherdagh supra Marash ; floret Septembro. 
A plant with the aspect of Carum setaceum, Schr., = Bunium 
capillifolium, Kar. et Kir., but readily distinguished by the few- 
rayed primary and secondary umbels, and from its allies in 
Sect. IL. Eleosticta by its globular root, leafy stem, and less 
tortuous branches, and subulate leaves of involucre and involucel. 
It has the globular mericarps, with concave internal face, of Sca- 
ligeria. 
CARUM BRACHYACTIS. Glabrum, caule humili fere a basi parce 
et dichotome ramoso, ramis divaricatis, foliis radicalibus . . . - 
caulinis paucis parvis in lacinias paucas lineari-spathulatas divisis, 
"umbelle radiis 7-8 brevibus subsqualibus umbellulis parum 
longioribus, involucri et involucelli phyllis membranaceis lan- 
ceolato-subulatis radiis et pedicellis brevioribus vel subaquilongis, 
pedicellis gracilibus fructu oblongo brevioribus, stylis fructus 
diametro duplo stylopodio depresso sextuplo longioribus. 
Hab. in monte Akherdagh, Syris borealis. 
A plant of Sect. Bunium, near C. Bourgei, Boiss., and C. Pes- 
talozze, Boiss. differing in the very short equal rays of the 
primary and secondary umbels. 
Root globular, sometimes lobed ; plant 4-6 inches high, seg- 
ments of upper leaves 2-3 lines long, à line broad; primary 
umbels 1 inch broad, radii 4-5 lines long; ; secondary umbels 
3 lines broad ; fruit 2 lines long, 3 line broad. 
C. supum. Perenne, glabrum, caule tereti elato superne 
alternatim panieulatim ramoso, foliis radicalibus . . . . caulinis 
intermediis pinnatis 2-jugis, foliolis parvis oblongo-ellipticis acutis 
integris, superioribus ad petiola membranacea vaginantia scarios0- 
