SANICULA. UMBELLIFER &. 367 
TRIBE 2,—SANICULER, Koch. ; DC. 
Fruit, when cut transversely, somewhat terete. Mericarps with 5 equal primary 
and no secondary ridges, or covered with scales or prickles the ridges being obliterat- 
ed. Vittæ none, or numerous when the fruit is prickly. Seed, when cut transverse- 
ly, flattish in front—Umbels fascicled or capitate, simple or irregularly somewhat 
compound. 
II. SANICULA. Tourn. ; Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 191; Gertn. fr. t. 20. 
Calyx-tube echinate : its lobes slightly leafy, persistent. Petals erect, con- 
nivent, obovate, with long inflected points. Fruit somewhat globose, terete, 
not dividing spontaneously. Mericarps densely clothed with hooked prickles, 
without ridges, with many vittee. Carpophore indistinct. Seeds semiglobose. 
—Herbaceous perennial plants. Radicle leaves petioled, palmately lobed, 
the lobes cuneate, incise and toothed towards the apex. Stem naked or spa- 
ringly leafy. General umbel with few rays ; leaflets of the involucre few and 
often lobed: partial one of several rays; the leaflets of the involucel several 
and entire. Flowers in the same umbel, male, female, or bisexual. 
1134, (1) S. elata (Ham.:) stem dichotomous at the apex : leaves 3-partite 
or ternate, glabrous ; segments sessile, ovate, acute, lobed and serrated, cu- 
neate at the base, the lateral ones often bipartite : umbels usually 3-fid, few- 
flowered : flowers polygamous, the males pedicelled.— Don, prod. ft. Nep. p. 
183; DC. prod. 4. p. 85; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 116 ; Wall. ! L. n. 559 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 1188.—S, hermaphrodita, Don ? l. c. ; Spr.? l c. | 
TRIBE HI. AMMINER. Koch.; DC. 
Fruit evident] compressed laterally, and usually somewhat didymous. Mericarps 
with 5 equal filiform and sometimes s gh winged primar ridges ; the lateral ones 
on the margin : secondary ridges wanting. Vitte various. eed gibbously convex on 
the back and flattish in ront, or terete. —Umbels perfectly compound. 
III. APIUM. Linn.; Hoffm.; DC.; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 22. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete. Petals roundish, entire, with a small in- 
flexed or involute point. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit roundish, laterally 
contracted, didymous. Mericaps with 5 equal filiform ridges, of which the 
lateral ones are marginal. Interstices with single vittze, outer ones frequent- 
ly with 2-3 vittæ. Carpophore entire. Seed gibbously convex, flat in front. 
—Herbaceous. Stem furrowed, branched. Leaves pinnated, segments cu- 
neiform, cut. Umbels nearly sessile on axillary branchlets or at the apex of 
the stem. Involucre and involucel wanting. Flowers greenish-white. - 
1135. (1) A. graveolens (Linn. :) glabrous: leaves pinnated ; upper ones 
ternate ; site Mo i incise ye toothed at the apex : petals YN 
point closely involute.—J C. prod. 4. p. 101; Spr. syst. 1. p. 890; Wall.! L. 
n. 212 ; Wight! cat. n. 1189.—Apium Celeri, Gertn. fr. 1. t. 22. 
IV. HELOSCIADIUM.  Koch.; DC. 
Margin of the calyx obsolete, or 5-toothed. Petals ovate, entire, with a 
‘Straight or inflexed point. Styles short. Fruit laterally compressed, ovate 
or oblong.  Mericarps with 5 filiform equal slightly prominent ridges, of 
which the lateral ones are marginal. Interstices with single vitte. Carpophore 
entire, free. Seed gibbously or teretely convex, flattish in front—Herba- 
ceous. Umbels compound. Flowers white. 
