112 Class V. Order II. 



Stem erect, hollow, smooth, with deep furrows, and sharp, prom- 

 inent angles. Leaves pinnate ; leafrts in half a dozen pairs, 

 with an odd one, ovate-lanceolate, equally serrate, or laciniated 

 if under water. Umbels solitary, mostly terminal. General 

 Involucre of many leaves lanceolate, and occasionally serrate. 

 Partial involucres small. Flowers white. Fruit ovate, striated. 

 From July to September. Perennial. 



121. URASPERMUM. 



URASPERMUM CLAYTONI. Nutt, Sweet Uraspermum. 



Stem smooth ; leaves decompound, leafets cut- 

 toothed ; styles of the fruit filiform, divergent. 



Syn. SCANDIX DULCIS. Muhl 



MTRRHIS CLATTOKI. MX.? 



Root fleshy, fusiform or branching, with an agreeable sweet, 

 Spicy flavour, like that of Anise. Stem about two feet hiffh, 



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smooth when full grown, striated. Leaves ternate, the divisions 

 pinnate or ternate, the lower ones on long, smooth petioles, the 

 upper ones sessile. Stipules hairy at the edge. Leafets ovate, 

 toothed and cut, slightly pubescent, shining underneath. Um- 

 bels of a few long rays. General involucre of from two to four de- 

 ciduous lanceolate leaves. Partial ones five leaved, shorter. 

 Partial umbels few flowered, the central flowers abortive. Fruit 

 stipitate, clavate, oblanceolate, blackish and tasteless, covered, 

 especially on its lower part and stipe, with appressed, aculeate 

 bristles. The styles which crown the fruit are filiform and de- 

 flected, not parallel as in the following species. The dry seeds 

 are tasteless, and have a caudate appendage at base. In rich 

 woods, Oak island. Watertown. June. Perennial. 



* URASPERMUM HIRSUTTTM. Hairy Uraspermum. 



U. hirsutum ; foliis decompositis, foliolis pin- 

 natifido-incisis ; stylis frucius pyramidatis, ap- 

 proximatis. 



Hairy ; leaves decompound, leafets cut-pinnatifid ; 

 styles of the fruit pyramidal, approximate. 



This plant differs from the preceding in the taste of its root, 

 which is not sweet and anisate, but rank and unpleasant, some- 

 what like that of Aralia nudicaulis. Its more hairy aspect when 



