AMMIACEAE 967 
pound umbel Pipa eee white or 
rarely pink, few ach umbel larger 
than the rest, “the sey puo often pur ple: | 
petals very u dem suborbicular, unequally í ; Ly C) IN 
cleft, crisped: fruit 3—4 mm. long, the car- / ] 
he wings | 
DEVIL UE.)—In fields p waste- 
places, cus throughout N. A.; except the 
extreme N and S. Nat of Eurasia. 
-) pr. —fall The root of the culti- 
vated plant is esculent. 
. pusillus Michx. Stem retrorsely his- 
2d py 1-8 dm. tall: umbels long-pedun- 
cled: rays several or numerous, 1-2 cm. long, 
nearly equal: corolla Ms or the central one larger and purple: fruit ovoid- 
ius m id, 3—4 mm. long, the wings os into 1-8 flat prickles. Fields and 
aste- pum various nc Fla. to Tex., Calif., B. C., and Mo -Spr fall. 
TORILIS Adans. Annual herbs. Leaf-blades pinnately decompound. 
Usb poa Or se ading. Involueres of few bracts or wanting. Involu- 
of or many narrow braets. 
nds ne. P etals ae unequal. Car- 
pels short, with 5 primary ribs and 4 winged 
secondary ribs. Oil-tubes ad d under the 
ibs and 2 in the inner face.—About 20 spe- 
eies, natives of the Northern a 
1. T. nodosa (L.) Gaertn. Plant diffuse, 
the branches hispid, 1-4 dm. long: fruit 
ovoid or elliptic- “ovoid, about 3 mm. long, 
the outer ones spin -armed.— ( HEDGE-PARS- 
LEY.)—Waste- rin various UN Fla. 
to Tex., Ia., and Pa., ust in Calif. Nat. of 
Eu. and Afr.—Spr.-sum. 
9. SCANDIX [Tourn.] L. Annual herbs. Leaf-blades pinnately dis- 
sected; umbel compound. Involucre wanting or nearly so. Involucel of several 
entire lobed or dissected bractlets. Sepals 
minute or obsolete. Petals white, unequal. 
Fruit narrow, much elongate, the body pu 
wanting: oil tubes solitary or wanting.— 
About 10 species, natives of the Old World. 
é 
1. S. Pecten-Veneris L. Stem 1—5 dm. tall, 
pubescent, come only branched at the base: 
leaf-blades 2 or 3 pinnately dissected, the 
lobes alos umbels usually paired or in 
threes: fruit needle-like, erect, the body 
narrow grooved, the beak 4-6 em. long, 
