Sas 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 195 
pid; commissure sulcate; receptacular axis se- | 
mibifid; style subulate, persistent, terminating. _ 
the fruit. Universal involucrum none. 
Umbell compound, with 5 or more rays. General in- ; 
volucrum wanting. Partial involucrum 5-leaved, entire; 
umbellets many-flowered; masculine florets often double 
the number of those which are fertile. Calix obsolete. 
Petals oblong, emarginately inflected. Leaves biter- 
" nate, somewhat pseudo-tripinnate, margin incisely-toothed; 
young plants canescently pilose, at length nearly smooth. 
Sweet and aromatic, odor anisate; seed tasteless. 
Spectres, 1. U. Claytoni. Scandix Claytoni,. Mich. 
Oxs,,Root ferennial. Stems about a foot high, striated, 
always more or les pubescent, but at first of a hoary white- 
ness. Leaves only about 2 on each stem; ternate, with 
the subdivisions from 3 to 5-leaved; terminal leaflets 
rh@mboidal, acute, lateral o nen arate irregular and ob- 
long, sometimes subpinnatifidly lobed, but maton in- 
_ Cisely toothed, dentures mostly obtuse with a small-point-. 
picion of its affinity to M..odorata. 
: Ag ae 
Umbells ae and terminal, rays about 5. Involucrum 
wanting,.or of 
terior hermaphrodite flowers about 5, males about 10, 
all pedunculate, peduncles of the male-flowers capillary; 
‘involucell 5-leaved, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, soon — 
after flowering deflected. Styles filiform, as long as the — 
germ, erect and divaricate, with inconspicuous sti % 
Germ distinctly villous towards the base. No vestige of © 
acalix. Fruit Jinear-lanceolate, black and shining, subu- 
lated, but without rostrum. Seed caudate, (an ach in 
length, including the cauda, which is about 3 lines long) 
acutely quadrangular, without either ribs or stria; inter- 
vals flat and even, cuticle” peal unct cauda, and 
more sparingly the angles of the sced | 
Hae. Near Philadel een the shady banks 
kill. The whole ty excepting the 
matic odor as prc to which it Reire some 
resemblance.—I Soni antandens is to be considered a 
genuine Myrrhis, and Seandix procumbens and S. cerefo- 
lium as examples 0’ of Cherophyllum, 1 could not for a mo- 
ment hesitate to separate from both these fo the — 
i of Michaux, not however without a sus- 
or 2 small leaves. -Umbellets small,ex. 
