Osmorhiza UMBELLIFERAE Pimpinella 



6. Osmorhiza Raf. Sweet Cicely ^1&^M (Hsiang Ken Ts'ao Shu) 

 Erect perennial herbs from thick aromatic fascicled roots: lvs. ternate or biter- 

 nate; leaflets multicleft; petioles sheathing: inn. in compound umbels; involucre 

 wanting but involucel present (ours); rays few and unequal; fls. white (ours), purple 

 or greenish yellow; calyx teeth obsolete: fr. linear to clavate, bristly hispid (ours) or 

 glabrate, bearing conspicuous tails at the base; ribs filiform, bristly; carpels curving 

 outward. 11 species, mostly in North America, four in South America, one in eastern 

 Asia. (Greek: osme, a cent, and rhiza, root.) 



1. Osmorhiza aristata (Thunb.) Mak. & Yabe (Cal.B. 23:127). Stout herb, 3-8 dm. 

 high; fls. white; involucel conspicuous. Eastern Asia; locally in An., Che., Hup., 

 Ki., Ku. Woodland shade. 



7. Anthriscus Hoffm. Chervil ^rfftK (An Ssu Shu) 

 Erect annual, biennial or perennial herbs from taproots or fascicled fibrous roots: 

 lvs. ternate-pinnately or pinnately compound: infl. of compound umbels; involucre usual- 

 ly wanting but involucel conspicuous; rays few; fls. white; calyx teeth obsolete: fr. 

 linear to lanceolate (ours), compressed laterally, beaked; ribs and oil tubes obsolete. 

 About 10 species in Eurasia; only 2 reported from China. (Greek: anthriskos.) 



1. Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoffm. (G.M. 1091). Stout annual, 6-15 dm. high; fls. 

 white. Eurasia, naturalized in North America, presumably introduced in Che. 

 Waste places. 



8. Cryptotaenia DC. Honewort f|j&ffM (Ya Erh Ch'in Shu) 

 Perennial glabrous herbs with ternate lvs.: fls. white, in irregularly compound or 

 paniculate umbels; involucels usually wanting: fr. oblong, beakless, glabrous, blunt 

 at base, not strongly compressed; carpels nearly terete. One species in eastern North 

 America and eastern Asia, one or more additional species in Africa. (Greek: crypto, 

 hidden, and tainia, thread, referring to the concealed oil tubes.) 



1. Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC. var. japonica (Hassk.) Mak. ||^ff (Ya Erh 

 Ch'in; Duck Celery) (E.P.IV. 228(3): 112). Erect perennial, to lm.; fls. white, 

 V-VII: fr. VII-IX. Eastern Asia; locally in An., Che., Hun., Hup., Ki. Wood- 

 land shade. Fig. 274. 



9. Coriandrum Linn. Coriander #3^11 (Hu Sui Shu) 

 Glabrous annuals with decompound lvs. finely divided into filiform segments: fls. 

 white, in compound umbels, without involucres: fr. subglobose, with indistinct ribs; 

 pericarp very thin and hard. 2 species, in the warm parts of the Old World; one in 

 China. (The old Latin name.) 



1. Coriandrum sativum Linn. Coriander ^# (Yuan Sui; Foreign-aromatic-vegeta- 

 ble) (B.M. 753). Erect annual, to 8dm.; fls. white; stem-lf. segments linear. 

 Southern Europe, naturalized in North America and Africa; locally in Ku. Cul- 

 tivated, condiment. Fig. 275. 



10. Pimpinella Linn. WfvM (Hui Ch'in Shu) 

 Herbs, usually perennial, from slender taproots: lvs. commonly ternately or pin- 

 nately compound, the stem-lvs. often heteromorphic: infl. of compound umbels; in- 



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