328 64. tjmbellifebjE. 



known to him to B. falcatum, and we can recognize only one 

 species, except perhaps an immature specimen from Long Eeach, 

 Corean Archipelago (Oldham, 303 A). 



1. Apium cicutaefolium, Benth. et BZook.f. Gen. PI. i. p. 888. 



Sium cicutaefolium, Gmel. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 482; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 

 p. 260 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 472 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 p. 126. 



Falcaria dahurica, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 110. 



Sium lineare, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 167; A. Gray, Man. Bot. 

 Northern U.S. ed. 5, p. 196. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bushell ! Bretschneider !). Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Dahuria and Siberia eastward, and in eastern North America. 

 We have followed the ' Genera Plantarum' here; but in habit 

 and foliage this plant more closely resembles Sium latifolium, 

 &c, than any Apium. 



2. Apium graveolens, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 264; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. p. 101 ; Franchet in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. 

 p. 220; Clarice in Hook./. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 679. 



Shantung : Chefoo, subspontaneous (Fauvel ex Franchet). 



This has a wide area in Europe, North Africa, and Western 

 Asia to North-west Iudia ; but we know of no locality for it in 

 Eastern Asia, except the one named, where it is doubtless a 

 colonist. 



1. Cicuta virosa, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, p. 255 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 p. 99 ; Clarke in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 679 ; Franchet, PI. 

 David, p. 138. 



Cicutaria aquatica, Lam. Illustr. t. 195. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bretschneider !), Jehol (David, 1914 !) ; 

 Shingking : between Moukden and Tungcheshien (James !). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Europe, temperate Asia, and widely diffused in North America. 



[Petroselinum sativum, Hofim., is recorded by Bunge as a 

 cultivated plant at Peking.] 



1. Carnm buriaticum, Turcz. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. i. p. 472; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Boss. ii. p. 249 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. Pek. in Prim. Fl. 

 Amur. p. 472. 



