GoRHAM, on the Umbellifera. 21 



" Viewed with the binocular, you see that the veins are 

 not imbedded in the parenchyma, but partially raised above 

 it, giving strength and support to the whole," 



In a correspondence with Dr. Maxwell Masters on this 

 subject, this gentleman tells me that he has found the vein 

 at the margin more or less distinct in the Umbellifers — 

 Nos. 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 

 32, 33, of the following list. I have noticed the vein myself 

 in the rest, and in fourteen of those mentioned by Dr. 

 Masters. 



1. Apiurn graveolens. Celery. 



2. jEthusa Cynapium. Fools' parsley. 



3. Bupleurum fenuissimum. Slender hare's ear. 



4. Caruni Carui. Caraway. 



5. Caucalis daucoides. Small-bur parsley. 



6. Chcerophyllum sylvesire. Wild chervil. 



7. „ temulum. Kough chervil. 



8. Cicuta virosa. Water hemlock. 



9. Conium tyiacidatum. Common hemlock. 



10. Daucus Carota. Common carrot. 



11. Eryngium maritimum. Sea holly. 



12. „ campestre. Field eryngo. 



13. Helosciadium nodifloi'um. Procumbent marshwort. 



14. „ repens. Creeping marshwort. 



15. „ inundatum. Lesser marshwort. 



16. Libanotis vulgaris. Mountain meadow saxifrage. 



17. Myri'his odorata. Sweet Cicely. 



18. (Egopodium jJodagraria. Gout weed ; herb Gerarde. 



19. (Enanthe crocata. Hemlock waterdrop. 



20. „ pimpinelloides. Parsley waterdrop. 



21. „ fstulosa. Common water drojDwort. 



22. „ Fhellandrium. Fine-leaved water dropw^ort. 



23. Pastinaca sativa. Parsnip. 



24. Petroselinum sativum. Parsley. 



25. „ segetum. Corn parsley. 



26. Pimpinella Saxifraga (?). Common Burnet saxifrage. 



27. ,5 magna. Greater Burnet saxifrage. 



28. Peucedanum officinale. Sulphur weed. 



29. „ sylvestris. Milk parsley. 



30. Scandix Pecten-veneris. Venus's comb. 



31. Silaus pi'atensis. Meadow pepper saxifrage. 



32. Sison Aniomum. Stone parsley. 



• 33. Smyrnium olusatrum. Alexander. 



34. Torilis Anthriscus. Upright hedge parsley 



35. Triyiia glaberrina. Glabrous stonewort. 



So that about one half of the plants belonging to the 



