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PART II 



i.e. on the side towards the plane of junction of the two mericarps (Fig. 700, 1, 2). 

 The majority of the species belong to this group. ///</;(//// is a civcpin;; 

 plant growing in marshy places with entire, peltate leaves and simple umbel*. 

 Sanicula and Astrantia have simple umbels, which in the latter are surrounded 

 by a petaloid involucre. In Eryngium the plant is usually spiny and bears 



Fie. 704. Cicuta rirosa. Rhizome cut through longitudinal!} (A nat. si/r). Fruit 

 (enlarged). Poisosocs. 1 



simple umbels, which approach closely to being capitula ; the involucral leaves an- 

 often coloured. Bupleurum has entire leaves. PimpincUa, Burnet-Saxifr;ig . 

 /'. Anisum, Anise, is an annual plant, the seedlings of which exhibit increasing 

 subdivision of the lamina in successive leaves. Carum C'crri, Carroway. lias 

 long been cultivated (Fig. 701) ; leaves bipinnate, the lowest pinnae membling 

 stipules. The large lower pinnules are usually placed horizontally on tin- vntii-al 

 rhachis of the leaf; the terminal pinnules are simple and linear. The termina- 



