Genus 22. 



CARROT FAI\IILY. 



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22. BUPLEURUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 236. 1753. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with simple entire clasping or perfoliate leaves, and compound 

 umbels of yellow or greenish-yellow flowers. Involucre none in our species. Involucels of 

 5 ovate mucronate bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals broad, the apex inflexed or infolded. 

 Stylopodium conic. Styles short. Fruit oblong or oval, somewhat compressed laterally. 

 Carpels angled, with slender equal ribs ; oil-tubes none in our species. Seed-face concave. 

 [Greek, ox-ribbed, referring to the leaves.] 



.\bout 65 species of wide geographic distribution. Besides the following another occurs in 

 the Rocky Mountains and northwestern America. Type species: Bupleurum rigidnin L, 



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I. Bupleurum rotundifolium L. 



Hare's Ear. Thorough-wax or 



-wort. Modesty. Fig. 3133. 



Bupleurum rotundifotiuin L. Sp. PI. 236. 1753. 



Annual, erect, rather stiff, branching, 

 glabrous, pale, l-2 high. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, or oval, mostly obtuse, mucronate, 

 I'-li' long, perfoliate, or the lowest nar- 

 rowed into a petiole ; umbels terminal, 3-6- 

 rayed, the rays seldom over 4" long; bracts 

 of the involucels about as long as the rays, 

 yellowish; fruit glabrous, about li" long. 



In cultivated fields. New Hampshire to 

 North Carolina, west to South Dakota, Ten- 

 nessee, Kansas and Arizona. Naturalized 

 from Europe. July-Aug. 



Bupleurum Odontites L., also European, 

 with narrowly linear leaves, is recorded as 

 found in Massachusetts. 



23. THASPIUM Xutt. Gen. i : 196. 1818. 

 Perennial herbs, with ternate or ternately compound leaves, or the basal ones some- 

 times undivided, and compound umbels of yellow or purple flowers. Involucre none, or 

 of 1-3 bracts. Involucels of several small bracts. Caly.x-teeth prominent, acute. Stylopo- 

 dium none. Style slender. Fruit ovoid or oblong, glabrous or nearly so, scarcely flattened. 

 Carpels somewhat dorsally flattened, the ribs or at least some of them strongly winged; 

 oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. Seed-face flat. [Name in- 

 directly from the island Thapsus.] 



Only the following species, natives of eastern North America. Type species: Thaspiuiu 

 aureum Nutt. 



Leaves mostly ternate : segments crenate, thickish. 



Leaves mostly biternate ; segments incised or lobed, rather thin, i. T, trifoliatum. 



Segments ovate, incised. 2. T. barhitiode. 



Segments pinnatifid into oblong lobes. 3. T.piiiiiatifiduni. 



I. Thaspium trifoliatum (L.) Britton. Purple Meadow-Parsnip. Fig. 3134. 



Thapsia trifoliata L. Sp. PI. 262. 1753. 



Smyrnium atropurpureum Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 3 : 667. 



1789. 

 Thaspium aureum Nutt. Gen. i- 196. 1818. 

 Thaspium atropurpureum Nutt. Gen. i: 196. 1818. 

 T. trifoliatum IJritton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 240. 1894. 

 Thaspium trifoliatum aureum Britton, Mem, Torr. Club 



5: 240. 1894. 



Glabic-'s throughout: stems erect, more or less 

 branchei , i-2 high. Upper stem-leaves short-peti- 

 oled, ternate, or rarely biternate, the segments ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, l'-2' long, crenate-dentate all 

 around ; basal leaves long-petioled, sometimes undi- 

 vided ; umbels i'-2' broad: petals dark purple or 

 yellow ; fruit 2" long, all the ribs usually winged. 



In woods, Rhode Island to Georgia, Tennessee. Illinois, 

 Missouri, Arkansas and Wyoming. Purple alexanders. 

 Round-heart. The purple-flowered and yellow-flowered 

 races are apparently, otherwise indistinguishable. June- 

 July. 



