336 64. umbellifeb^;. 



We hesitate giving this distinct plant a name, because, although 

 we have failed to identify it with any described species, we think 

 it has probably been published. 



5. Peucedanum, sp. ? 



Kwangtiino: cultivated in the HoDgkong Botanic Garden; 

 plant collected on the banks of the North river, Canton (Ford, 

 497 !). Herb. Kew. 



1. Heracleum lanatum, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i. p. 166; A. 

 Gray, in Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. vi. p. 391 ; Maxim, in Bull. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1879, p. 23. 



Heracleum dissectum, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. p. 301, et Fl. Ross. ii. p. 323, 

 et Ic. PI. Fl. Ross. t. 304. 



Heracleum Moellendorffii, Hance in Journ. Bot. 18/8, p. 12. 



Heracleum barbatum, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. p. 300, et Fl. Ross. p. 322 ; 

 Regel et Til. in Nouv. MSm. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xi. 1859, p. 98. 



Heracleum dulce, Fisch. in Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ix. p. 23, ex Maxim. 



Shingking : Moukden to the Taloo river (James !) ; Hupeh : 

 Patung district (A. Henry !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Siberia to Japan and in eastern North America. 



The Patung specimens may prove specifically different. We 

 have followed Maximowicz and Kegel in the synonymy of this 

 species. 



1. Coriandrum sativum, Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. 1, p. 256; DC. 

 Frodr. iv. p. 250 ; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 180 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 p. 135 ; Franchet, Fl. David, p. 145 ; Bretschn. Early Res. 

 p. 154 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. p. 920 ; Sibth. Ic. Fl. Grcec. t. 283. 



Commonly cultivated in China, and not uncommonly met with 

 in a wild state, though probably not indigenous. Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Mediteranean region. 



1. Daucus Carota, Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. 1, p. 242 ; DC. Frodr. iv. 

 p. 211 ; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 178 ; Bretschn. Early Bes. p. 154 ; 

 Debeaux, Fl. Shangh. p. 32 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 6 ; 

 Franch. in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 222 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Or. ii. p. 1076. 



Cultivated throughout China, and perhaps also indigenous, as 

 it appears to be from Western Europe and North Africa to North 



