068 AMMIACEAE 
eiliate.—( VENUS'-COMB.  LADY'S-COMB. CROW-NEEDLES.)—Waste- places, At- 
ARR sea-ports, Ga. ings loeally to th Mou dons t. Native of 
Eurasia.—(S. A.) Sum.-fall. —The shoots are a as 
6. OSMORRHIZA Raf. Perennial herbs. Leaf-blades ternately com- 
pound, the segments broad. mbels loose, compound. Involucres and in- 
volucels of few bracts or bractlets, or wanting. Sepals obsolete. Petals white, 
inflexed at the apex. Fruits elongate: carpels 5-angled, with barely equal 
ribs: oil-tubes obsolete or wanting. [Washingtonia Raf.]—About 15 species, 
American and Asiatic.—Spr.—SWEET-CICELIES. 
B ee of the leaf-blades with villous hairs: stylopodium and aaa about 1 oo 
1. O. Clayton 
Rachis PA the leaf-blades glabrous or with short hairs: stylo- il 
and styles fully 3 mm. long 2. O. longistylis. 
1. layto yn Been x.) DC. Roots slightly if at all aromatie: foliage vil- 
ug s erect or ascending, 3-9 dm. tall, usually branched: leaf- 
segments e a ute acuminate, Y 
coarsely toothed, cleft, incised, or 
umbel- 6, 2-5 em. long: ts of the 
involueres and bractlets, linear to o g- 
acute: corolla white, about 4 m 
uit narrowly oblong, 18-20 
e base. — (SWEE 
d thickets, various provinces, rarely 
Coastal ate Ala. to Kans., S. D., Ont., 
N. S., and N. C. 
2. O. longistylis (Torr.) DC. e sweet- 
aromatic: foliage glabrous qr finely pubes- 
cent: o mainly a or oblong- 
ovate, 5—10 em. long, acute or short-acumi- = 
nate, coarsely serrate or incised, or even divided: umbel-rays usually 3-6, aF 
ing: corolla white, 4-5 mm. broad: fruit narrowly oblong, 15-18 mm. long: 
body longer than the slender very strigose base.—(ANISE-ROOT.)—Rich JAM 
various provinces, Ala. to Colo., Assina., N. S., and N. C. 
7. CEREFOLIUM [Rivin.] Haller. Annual herbs, resembling Chaero- 
phyllum. Leaf-blades ternately decompound, the segments small. Umbels com- 
elongate. Carpels more or less angled, bu 
‘not ribbed: oil-tubes wanting. [Anthr iscus 
Bernh.]—Few species, in the warm and tem- 
perate parts oF the Old World. 
1. C. Cerefolium (L.) Br itton. Plants 1 m 
tall or less, often weak-stemmed: leaf-blades 
broad, the segments rather numerous, thin: 
umbe ls long- peu the rays few, 2-4 
