8 LXVIII, UMBELLIFERE (HIERN). | Sanieula. 
cated in wstivation. Disk flat. Fruit ovoid, somewhat compressed 
laterally, with wide commissure, echinate with long spines hooked a 
the ond ; ridges imperceptible; vitte 10, opposite the usual places or 
primary ridges; carpophore 0. Seeds semi-terete.—Perennial argo 
slender herbs. Leaves palmately divided with serrate mucronate ob- 
ovate segments. Umbels irregularly compound, terminal; heads 
small; bracts narrow. Flowers usually monecious, the outer flowers 
stalked and male, the inner ones subsessile and female. 
A moderate-sized genus, widely dispersed over the temperate regions of the world. 
1. S. europexa, Linn.; DC. Prod. iv.84. Glabrous and shining. 
Stem striate, 1-3 ft. high. Radical leaves 1—3 in. wide, on long slender 
petioles, from 13-9 in. long; the petioles of the upper leaves continu- 
ally shortening. Primary bracts 2, usually with 2 acute small lobes 
near base; ultimate bracts of the involucre small and lanceolate. 
Flowers few in the heads, pink or white. Styles long, slender, spread- 
ing. Fruit } in. long.—sS. capensis, Eck. et Zeyh. Enum, Pl. Afr. Austr. 
339, n. 2186. 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountains, 4000-7000 ft. alt. fl. and fr. Dec.-Feb. 
Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, 4000 ft. alt., fr. Nov., Mann / 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schoata, fl. and fr. July, Schimper! 
Occurs over a very wide range in the mountainous regions of both America and Asia, 
in moist situations in Europe, and also in South Atrica. 
do. PYCNOCYCLA, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 881. 
Calyx-teeth small, lanceolate, acute, patent in flower; often unequal 
in the outer flowers. Petals often unequal, especially in the outer 
flowers, with an inflexed point, 2-lobed. Disk annular, consisting of 
10 small undulations; ovary ovoid. Fruit cylindrical, with rounded 
primary ridges, pubescent, with one carpel often partly-abortive ; com- 
missure wide; vitte indefinite; carpophore 0. Seeds subterete.— 
Rigid erect herbs. Umbels compound, compact; involucres and invo- 
lucels rigid, entire ; central flower only in each umbellulate perfect. 
A small genus, occurring also in Western and Central Asia. 
1. P. glauca, Lindl. in Royle [llustr. 232, t.51. Perennial, 1 to 2 ft. 
high, branched from the base, subglaucescent. Stem terete, slender, 
shghtly pubescent and furrowed. Leaves pinnately dissected, the ra- 
dical ones long-petioled, clasping at the base, with filiform acutely- 
tipped segments, glabrous, or at base very nearly so; the clasping 
base with shortly ciliate margins; furrowed especially on the sub 
cylindrical petioles ; the stem leaves very few, smaller, similar. Umbels 
at extremity of long pubescent peduncles, hemispherical, in flower about 
§ in. in diameter; involucre hispid, consisting of several small, narrow 
acute bracts ; involucel similar and smaller, 1-veined. Flowers sessile, 
9 ina shortly stalked umbellule. Calyx-lobés pubescent outside and 
ciliate, reddish in fruit. Petals white, with reddish midrib, curved in- 
wards, with 2 large diverging lateral enlarged lobes extending outwards 
