Umbellifere.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 227 
Si 229 et eto © mtn dao i 
semel bisve furcatus.” iting ee if ee Feat, ua Batis sc aeesctaaee Sie 
leviter nutantem.” Calyx profunde ie Adis 1 ini ek a eee adad ea mone aan 
respect with this descri fom ex ss i ] we sind isis wo hie pts: 
Simla, and +e inate te nh Ege spinon nae wot ~— kg ogeageaaed 
> : with which the specimens in the East-India Herbarium, 4492. 2. from 
Buddrinath, correspond, as well as the figure in Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 747. 
The plant, S. ciliata, figured in Plate 49. tig. 2. is found on the Mussooree and Suen Range, at 
lower elevations than JS. ligulata. 'The leaves are ovate and obtuse at both ends, extremely hairy on 
both, but especially the under surface, and along the nerves; the peduncle is slender, the inflorescence 
an erect, but lax spreading panicle; the calyx gamosepalous, and cup-shaped at the base, and conse- 
quently less deeply divided than in |S. ligulata, with the lacinie entire, and not ciliate, and the petals 
more unguiculate. 
S. stenophylla ; Tab. 50. f.1. 
This species so closely resembles S. flagellaris from Greenland and Melville Island, that it might be 
considered a modification of that species, and almost the same words used in describing both ; but this 
may be distinguished by the sepals being narrow and lanceolar, the lower leaves acute and not obovate, 
and by its being more sparingly covered with glandular hairs. It grows on Peerpunjal. 
S. mucronulata ; caule simplici paucifloro, stolonibus capillaribus rosulatis, foliis inferioribus rosulatis, 
caulinis alternis, omnibus trinerviis lanceolatis basi attenuatis apice spinuloso-mucronatis margine glan- 
duloso-ciliatis, petalis oblongis ovatis 5-nerviis, sepalis acutis trinerviis marginibus glanduloso-ciliatis, 
stigmatibus crassis.—S. spinulosa, Tab. 50. f.2. a. Flower with the petals c. separated, and half of 
the stamens d. cut off; e. pistil; b. sepal magnified. Having observed since the publication of Plate 50, 
that there is already a S. spinulosa, DC. Prod. p 47, I have been obliged to substitute the present for 
the name first imposed. 
Parnassia nubicola ; (Wall. Cat. N. 1246) stigmatibus tribus, nectariis trisetis staminibus brevio- 
ribus, foliis radicalibus ovatis 7-nerviis, caulino breve-petiolato cordato-ovato, omnibus subtus ferru- 
gineis ; petalis obovatis subcrenatis unguiculatis basi ciliatis. Tab. 50. fig. 3. a. Flower with the petals, 
and b. the stamens separated, shewing the angled scape and pentangular lower adherent half of the 
calyx ; d. fertile, e. abortive stamens; f, germen with the calyx and stamens attached above its middle; 
g. transverse section of the trilocular 3-valved capsule. 
87. UMBELLIFERZ. 
The Umbeilifere, from their peculiarity of habit and inflorescence form one of the 
most natural of families, and of which almost any individual may be recognized at a 
glance ; but in proportion to this facility of recognition, is the difficulty of ascer- 
taining the. genus to which any particular plant may belong. Indeed so great a 
resemblance is there between these, that it has even been said that the whole order 
might be considered only as one huge genus. But as this, to say the least, would be 
inconvenient, and as the difficulty is great of forming natural genera, different parts 
have been selected by different botanists for generic distinctions ; the result, therefore, 
has frequently been to form very artificial groups, and to transfer plants from one to 
another, and to cause a frequent change of name. This is no doubt owing in part to 
many plants having been referred to genera from imperfect specimens, and also to 
our more perfect knowledge, in consequence of more careful dissection of all the parts 
of a plant. From the labours, however, of Hoffmann and Lagasca, Koch, and De 
Candolle, considerable precision has now been attained in the characters of the 
though they may perhaps justly be considered as being too much subdivided. 
genera, 
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