Pastinaca.} UMBELLIFER& (Sond.) ‘561 
pinnatifid ; lobes abbrenate, linear-subulate, with revolute margins, glau- 
cous beneath; wmbels 8-12-rayed ; leaves of involucre linear-setaceous ; 
fruit oblong, or ovate-oblong, with filiform, obtuse ridges, and a narrow 
convex-flattened margin. JB. tenusfolium, EH. Meyer. 
Has. Dutoitskloof, Drege. Oct.-Jan. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
Perhaps this species is a variety of the foregoing, but the habit is very different. 
The stem is much slenderer, 3—4 feet, the leaves about 1 foot in length ; the sections 
with very delicate, nearly capillary, 1-2 lines long lacinule. Rays of umbel 2 inches 
long. Involucre and involucel capillary, attenuated. Fruit 3-34 lines long, 1% 
line broad. Mericarps with univittate furrows, but the juga always without vitte. 
5. B. Capense (Sond.) ; leaves petiolate, ternately decompound ; lobes 
elongate, linear-filiform, undivided or pinnatifid, with similar lacinule ; 
umbels 40-50-rayed ; fruit ovate-oblong, with filiform, obtuse ridges, 
and a very narrow margin. Oreoselinum Capense, Ii. § Z.! 2239. Bubon 
multiradiatum, E. Mey. a. b. 
Has. Mountains near Klapmuts, Stellenbosh, and on Bergriver near Paarl, 
E. § Z., Drege. Oct.-Dec. (Herb. Hk. Sd.) 
Habit and leaves of a true Peucedanum. Stem and leaves glaucous-pruinose. 
Lower leaves often more than a foot long and broad; stem-leaves similar, but 
smaller. Terminal lobes 1-2 inches long, } line broad, sulcate ; when divided, with 
remote, alternate lacinule. Rays of umbel 2-24 inches long. Leaves of involucre 
lanceolate. Fruit 24-3 lines long, 1-1} line broad. Mericarps with 1-vittate 
vallecule and 2-vittate commissures ; the juga without vitte. 
(Species not sufficiently known. ) 
B. levigatum (Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, vol. 1, 352. ed. 2, vl. 2, 146); 
stem frutescent ; leaves bipinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, bluntly and 
obsoletely crenated ; fruit glabrous. erula levigata, Spreng. Umb. 
Spec. 88. 
Has. South Africa. ; : 
Umbel depauperate. Flowers yellow. Fruit thick, solid, with 3 dorsal, obtuse 
eucedanum (Dregea). 
ribs (ex Spreng.) Seemingly a species of P 
XXVIII. ANETHUM, Linn. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, involute, with 
a square, retuse point. Frat dorsally compressed, lenticular, with a 
flattened margin. Mericarps with filiform, equidistant ridges, the 3 
dorsal acutely carinate, the 2 lateral subobsolete, confounded with the 
margin. Vitte broad, solitary in each furrow and completely filling it, 
2 in the commissure. DO. J. c..185. Endl. Gen. n. 4467. 
- Annual, glabrous herbs, with decomposed leaves and yellow flowers, without 
- Gmvolucres. This is the avn@ov of Theophrastes ; derived from avw, upwards, and 
dew, to run, alluding to the quick growth of this plant. 
1, A. graveolens (L. Spec. 377); lobes of the leaves elongate, linear- 
filiform ; fruit elliptic, with a flat margin. Hayne Arz. Gew. 7. t. 17. 
Has. In corn-fields and in cultivated grounds, escaped from gardens. 
XXVIII. PASTINACA, Linn. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete or minutely toothed. Petals roundish, 
entire, involute, the involute part broad and retuse. wit flat-com- 
pressed dorsally, surrounded by a dilated, flattened margin. Mericarps 
with very slender ridges; the dorsal and 2 intermediate ones equidistant, 
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