UMBELLIFLORJ:. 



495 



3. ScANDiCEjE. This group has a distinctly oblong or linear fruit 

 which is slightly compressed laterally, and generally prolonged up- 

 wards into a "beak"; wings absent. Campylospermous. Otherwise 

 as in the Ammiea?. Anihriscus (Beaked Parsley) has a lanceolate 

 fruit, round on the dorsal side, without ridges, but with a ten- 

 ridged beak. Scandix (Shepherd's-needle). Chteropliyllum (Cher- 

 vil) : fruit lanceolate or linear with low, blunt ridges ; beak absent 

 or very short. G. temulum has a red-spotted, hairy stem. Myrrhis 

 (Cicely) has a short beak and sharp, almost winged ridges. M 

 odorata (Sweet Cicely) has very long fruits. 



4. SESELINEJ-;, FENXEL GROUP (Figs. 533, 534). The fruit is 

 slightly elliptical or oblong, in transverse section circular or nearly 

 so, without grooves in the dividing plane ; only primary ridges 

 are present. Orthospermous. Fceniculum (Fennel) has yellow 



PIG. 533. (EnantUe phellandrium. Fruit entire 

 and in transverse section, emb The embryo ; 

 of the oil-ducts ; /r endosperm. 



FIG. 534. Foeniculum vulgart 

 Fruit in transverse section. 



petals ; both involucres are wanting ; the fruit is oblong. The 

 ridges are thick, all equally developed, or the lateral ridges are 

 slightly larger (Fig. 534). JEthusa (A. cynapium, Fool's Parsley) ; 

 the large involucre is wanting or is reduced to one leaf, the small 

 involucre is composed of three linear leaves which hang down- 

 wards on the outer side of the umbels. The fruit is spherical- 

 ovate, with thick, sharp, keeled ridges, the lateral ones of which 

 are the broadest. CEnanthe (Dropwort) ; the fruit (Fig. 533) has 

 usually an ovate, lanceolate form, with distinct, pointed sepals and 

 long, erect styles ; the ridges are very blunt, the marginal ones a 

 trifle broader than the others. Seseli, Libanotis, Cnidium, Siler, 

 Silaus, Meum, etc. 



