286 UMBELLIFERAE. XLV. FALCARIA. 
leaflets petiolate, quite entire, some linear and others filiform. 
u.H. Native of Nipaul. Sison? diversifélius, Wall. mss. 
Stem much branched. Herb glabrous. Lower leaves unknown. 
Fruit ovate. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Mature fruit not 
seen, and therefore the vittz are not well known. Both the 
involucra and involucels are composed of a few linear, short, 
acute, undivided leaves. 
Diverse-leaved Falcaria. PI. 2 feet. 
Cult. The two first species will grow in any soil, and under 
any circumstance. Those natives of Java will require to be 
grown in a stove. 
XLVI. SI‘SON (from stswm, Celt. a running stream; some 
plants formerly contained in this genus were inhabitants of run- 
ning streams). Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 103. Koch, umb. p. 123. 
D.C. prod. 4. p. 110.—Sison species, Lin. and all other authors. 
Lin. syst. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete. 
Petals roundish, curved, deeply emarginate, with an inflexed 
point. Styles very short. Fruit compressed from the sides, ovate ; 
mericarps with 5 filiform equal ribs; lateral ribs marginating : 
having one short, club-shaped vitta in each furrow between the 
ribs; carpophore bipartite. Seed gibbously convex, flattish in 
front.—Herbs paniculately branched. Leaves pinnate; lower 
leaflets a little Jobed, toothed, or cut: upper ones linear, multifid. 
Both the involucra and involucels are composed of few leaves, 
Umbels of 4 unequal, elongated rays ; and the umbellules of 4-5- 
short rays. 
1 S. Amomum (Lin. spec. p. 362.) stem erect, terete, panicu- 
lately branched ; leaves pinnate; lower leaflets rather lobed and 
toothed : upper ones linear-multifid ; upper leaves ternate. ¢. 
H. Native of Britain, France, Italy, Sicily, Greece, &c. in 
fields, on a dry calcareous soil; in Britain not unfrequent in 
rather moist spots under hedges, where the soil is marly or 
chalky. Jacq. hort. vind. 3. t. 17. Hayn. term. bot. t. 36. 
f. 10. Schkuhr, handb. t. 65. Smith, engl. bot. t. 954. Sium 
aromaticum, Lam. dict. 1. p. 405. Séseli Amdmum, Scop. carn. 
ed. 2. no. 355. Cicita Amdmum, Crantz, aust. p. 96. Smyrnium 
heterophyllum, Meench, meth. p. 97. Flowers cream-coloured. 
Seeds aromatic and pungent when dry and ripe; but in an early 
state they, like the whole herb, have a peculiar nauseous smell. 
Amomum or Ginger-seeded Stone-parsley. Fl. July, Aug. 
Britain. Pl. 2 to 3 feet. 
+ Doubtful species. 
2 S.? Sreserta‘num (D. C. prod. 4. p. 111.) plant glabrous, 
dwarf; leaves almost radical, ternate, or tripartite ; segments 
approximate, cuneated at the base, very blunt at the apex, cre- 
nately toothed, or somewhat cut ; involucrum wanting. ©.?H. 
Native of Candia, on the tops of the Sphaceotic mountains. Sison 
alpinus, Sieb. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 414. Peucédanum Créti- 
cum, Sieb. herb. cret. 1826. Spreng. neu. entd. 2. p. 148. 
From the immature fruit this appears to be a species of Carum 
or Bùnium, the fruit being compressed from the margin, not 
from the back. Stem a finger in height. Umbels 4-5-rayed. 
Sieber’s Stone-parsley. Pl. 4 foot. 
3 S. rrine’Rve (Hamilt. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 184.) 
stem erect, terete, dichotomous, striated, nearly naked ; leaves 
all radical, pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, quite entire, 3- 
nerved, glabrous; involucrum 5-leaved; leaves of involucels 
lanceolate, awned. %. H. Native of Nipaul, about Bassaria. 
The fruit is undescribed, and the genus is therefore doubtful. 
Three-nerved-leaved Stone-parsley. P1. 1 foot. 
Cult. The seeds of the species only require to be sown in 
spring, in any common earth. 
XLVII. SCHU’LTZIA (in honour of John Henry Schultze, 
a celebrated German botanist). Spreng. umb. spec. p. 102. 
XLVI. Sison. 
XLVII, Scuutrzra. XLVIII. Ammi. 
and in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 44. Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 99. D.C. 
prod. 4. p. 112. Sison species, Pall.—Schúltzia, Spreng. umb. 
prod. p. 30. : 
Lin. syst. Pentándria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obso- 
lete. Petals elliptic, terminated by a short inflexed point. Sty- 
lopodium conical. Styles erect, rather capitate at the apex, 
permanent, at length diverging. Fruit cylindrically prismatic, 
the transverse section nearly terete; mericarps somewhat com- 
pressed from the sides, and furnished with 5 filiform, exserted 
ribs: the 2 lateral ribs nearly marginal: having the furrows 
between the ribs flat, and furnished with 1 vitta each. Carpo- 
phore undivided. Seed nearly terete.— Smooth perennial herbs, 
Leaves either radical, or from the lower part of the stem, bipin- 
nate ; -leaflets many-parted, decussate at the rachis : segments 
linear, acute. Umbels terminal, on long peduncles of many 
rays. Both the involucra and involucels are composed of many 
multifid leaves ; the lobes linear and acute. Flowers white, all 
fertile. 
1 S. crrnr'ra (Spreng. 1. c.) &. H. Native of the Altaia, 
on the highest of the mountains, not far from the torrent of 
Tegerek. Sison crinitum, Pall. act. petrop. 1779. 12. p. 250. 
t. 7. Willd. spec. 1. p. 1438. 
Long-haired Schultzia. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1818. Pl. 1ft. 
Cult. The seeds only require to be sown in the open ground. 
XLVIII. A’MMI (from appoc, ammos, sand ; habitation of 
plants), Tourn. inst. t. 159. Lin. gen. no. 334, Spreng. 
umb. prod. p. 41. Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 104, Koch, umb. p. 
122. D.C. prod. 4. p. 112. 
Lin. syst. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obso- 
lete. Petals obovate, emarginately 2-lobed, with an inflexed 
point; lobes of petals unequal, irregular, those of the outer part- 
of the umbel usually the largest. Fruit ovate-oblong, compre“ 
sed from the sides; mericarps furnished with 5 equal, filiform 
ribs: lateral ribs marginating: having the furrows between the 
ribs furnished with one vitta each; carpophore free, bipartite. 
Seed teretely convex on the outside, and flattish in front.—Herbs 
with the habit of Dazcus, having fusiform roots and pinnate or 
many-parted leaves. Umbels compound, of many rays. Bee 
the involucra and involucels are of many leaves ; the leaves © 
the involucrum trifid or pinnatifid. Flowers white. : 
1 A. ma`yus (Lin. spec. p. 349.) stem glabrous ; leaves piopi 
leaflets with cartilaginous, sharply serrulated margins ; those © 
the inferior leaves obovate-oblong, and those of the upper ones 
multifid, linear-lanceolate. ©. H. Native of south and middle 
Europe, Egypt, and the Levant ; also of Newfoundland. Lam. 
ill. 193. Smith, fl. gree. t. 273. Schkuhr, handb. t. 61. 
A‘pium A’mmi, Crantz, aust. 217. A’mmi Boebéri, Hoeq. diss. 
abo. 1810. and A. cicutafdlium, Willd. herb. ex Schultes, syst- 
6. p. 591. do not differ in any particular from A. majus. s 
A. Boebèri, Hoffm. umb. XVIII. Horn. suppl. p. 32. is merely 
a larger variety of the present species.—Lob. icon. t. 721. f. l 
Mill. fig. 25.—Plench. icon. 181. Blackw. t. 447. Flori 5 
white: outer ones of the umbels large, like those of the rest © 
the species. Stem-leaves biternate. 
Greater or Common Bishop’s-weed. FI. June, July. Cit. 
1557. Pl. 3 to 4 feet. 
2 A. craverrétium (Lin. spec. 349. exclusive of the syn?” 
nyme of J. Bauh.) stem glabrous; leaves all bipinnate, Jagge’ 
segments narrow-linear, acute, and a little serrated. anes 
Native of France, at Lucon (Guett. etamp. 2. p. 433-), about 
Paris (Thuill. par. 137.) Andegaveny (Bast. ess. 105.), Rouen, 
Nannetes, and in Dauphiny (Vill. dauph. 2. p. 592.), er 
(Smith, prod. fl. græc. 1. p. 185.), Spain at Aranjuez, Siclly, 
Liguria. This species differs from 4. majus in the characters 
mentioned above, and in the more branched habit and glaucous 
