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182 - -PENTANDRIA. DIGYNTA. 
~ compressed, sur 
striated, stris 5 on each seed; intervals ele- 
--yated, lined; commissure flat. 
Involucrum few-leaved, very short, rarely 1 to 5-leaved; 
inyolucell many-leaved, shorter; flowers mostly yellow. 
$recizs. 1. P. *ternatum. Jeaves all ternate, upon 
very long common petioles; partial leaves entire, long, 
linear, acute, and attenuated below; involucrum nearly 
wanting; involucell very short, 5 or 6-leaved; fruit oblong- 
elliptic. e re 
Descript. Perennial. Every where smooth. Stem 3 
feet high, striate and slender. Leaves very few, 5 or 6; 
: uncle of the lowest near 2 feet long! dividing above 
into 3 linear leaves, either petiolated or filiformly attenu-. 
- ated downwards, from 4 to 6 or 8 inches long, perfectly 
entire, and scarcely 3 lines wide. Umbeils 1 or 2, termi- 
nal; involucrum none, or 1 or 2 minute leaves, radii. elon- 
ted, 6 to 9. Segments of the involucell subulate, 2 or 
lines long; pedicells filiform more than an inch. Flow- 
ers ? Calix marginal, entire, or none. Styles short, 
reflected; fungous base elevated. Mature seed oblong- 
elliptic, large as that of a parsnip, flatly compressed, but 
convexly incurved, surrounded with a thick, alated fun- 
gous white margin, continued internally entirely over the 
commissure. Seed thin, longitudinally scored with 5 
severe aed lines, and 5 dark striated intervals. 
i ee the bushy margins of swamps, in the pine- 
nial oT North and South Carolina. I have not seen the 
"flower. 
ie ES 
Of this genus there are in Europe about 4 species, 2 at 
the Cape of Good Hope, 1 in Japan, 1 in the Canary islands, 
“< = Crete, and a heteromorphous species’ jn New Zea- 
an 
266, FERULA. L. 
Cali entire, or minute. Petals oblong, sub- 
equal. Fruit suboval, dorsally compressed, 
-Marginated. Seeds marked with 3 dor- 
On es; intervals and commissure striate.” 
 Sp.—Universal involucrum caducous; involucell 
_ many-leaved. is AS : 
- Stems for the most part very tall; umbell and umbellet 
one terminal peduncle; leaves complicately pseudo-p: 
ee 
surrounded with an alated margin, 
Pare it Sees 
