it Oo iad 
os "s- PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
cay 
a79. CHAROPHYLLUM. L. 
a rc Fruit oblong-linear, terete, ecostate, gla- 
ay brous, commissure sulcate.’” SPRENGEL. 
g 
Universal involucrum none. Leaves pseudo-tripinnate, 
or bipinnate, ultimate segments divaricate, yariously and 
incisely lobed or toothed. 
Srecizs. 1. C. procumbens, Oxs. Young stems, and 
particularly the sheaths of the leaves hairy. Umbells op- 
posite the leaves, naked, 3-rayed. Umbellets about 5- 
flowered; involucell short, about 5-leaved, ovate, erect. 
_ Flowers all fertile; petals oblong-oval, entire, scarcely in- 
flected. Styles very minute. Seeds ‘i g, 3 or 
= 4 lines long, brownish, even, very smooth and distinctly 
eirss lined; striz 5, intervals angularly clevaied. Haz. Near 
ue Philadelphia, on the banks of the ylkill. Leaves 
_ somewhat resemblingy Daneus Carota. 
A genus now including scarcely more than 5 or 6 spe- 
cies, indigenous to Europe, America, and Barbary. 
280. SESELI. L. (Meadow-Saxifrage.) 
«* Fruit ovate-lanceolate, solft, (seed) 5-rib- 
bed, ridges somewhat obtuse, intervals partly 
- grooved, Universal invelucrum none; partial 
many-leaved.” SPRENGEL. 
Partial inyolucrum 3 to 5-leaved, small; umbells sub- 
globose, often rather rigid. Leaves simply or doubly 
i pseudo-pinnate, segments linear. 
Srecies. 1. S. triternatum. Pu. + 2. divaricatum. PH- 
~ Stem short, procumbent, branched; leaves subopposite, 
- 
. shining, short and bipinnatifid, segments toothed, term!- » 
; nal ones obtusely tridentate, petiole decurrent in the alat- 
ae ed midrib; umbells upon long peduncles, hemispherical, 
_ dichotomal and terminal; involucrum none, inyolucell 
about che crf sen unilateral: flowers yellow. — 
Ons. Root perennial. Proper stem procumbent, divided 
the base, scarcely 4 inches long, angularly 
all, except the radical ones, opposite, 3 or ’4 inches 
canes ae one, as a shining, secort 
cs 20U fr, ts 2 to 
ee int Seiket cae tcbninatiog in 3 
with minute points; 
nearly dentures; petiole. 
contin te lated ae Peduncles naked, rigid, 
es ee 
