PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Corianclrum. 67 



Annual, slender, branched Jicrbs^ with doubly pinnate, cut 

 leaves, the upper ones having very narrow segments. 

 Umbels lateral and terminal; general rays few; partial 

 more numerous. General Bracteas almost entirely want- 

 ing ; iJartial about 3, linear-lanceolate, unilateral. Tl. 

 radiant, white or flesh-coloured. Recent plant, when 

 bruised, odiously fetid, in every part, though the ripe 

 seeds, in our British species, are agreeably aromatic, and 

 not unwholesome. The exotic one differs so widely in 

 its fruit, which is a double globe, that nothing can be 

 more difficult than to include both species in one descrip- 

 tion, or definition, of that part. Yet nothing ought to 

 separate generically plants so closely and peculiarly allied 

 in every other particular. The bracteas vary. The corolla 

 is radiant in both, though Linnaeus reports otherwise. 



*1. C. sativum. Common Coriander. 



The two hemispherical seeds making one uniform globe. 

 Leaflets of the lower leaves wedge-shaped. 



C. sativum. Linn. Sp. PL 367. JVilld. v. 1. 1448. Ft. Br. 320. 

 Engl. Bot. v.l.t. 67. FL Grcec. v. 3. 76. t. 283. Woodv. Med. 

 Bot.t. 181. Mart. Rust. t.\4\. Dalech. Hist. 735. f. Ehrh.Pl. 

 Off. 302. 



C. n. 764. Hull. Hist. v. 1. 335. 



C.m^jus. Bauh. Pin. 158. Riv. Pentap. Trr. t.7\. Moris, v. 3. 269. 



Coriandrum. Raii Syn. 221 . Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 203./. Trag. Hist. 

 1 15./. Fuchs. Hist. 345. f. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 121./. Corner. 

 Epit. 523. f. Ger. Em. 101 2./. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 70. Bauh. 

 Hist. v.3.p.2. 89./ 



In fields and on dunghills j not really wild. 



About Ipswich, and in some parts of Essex. 



Annual. June. 



Root tapering. Stem erect, 12 or 18 inches high, more or less 

 branched, leafy, round, striated. Leaves scarcely stalked, all 

 bipinnate and cut : the leaflets of some of the lowermost wedge- 

 shaped, or fan-shaped j acutely notched] of the rest in fine linear 

 segments. Umbels stalked, of 4 or 5 general rays, rarely more j 

 the partial rays more numerous. Fl. white, often with a reddish 

 tint. Fruit pale brown, somewhat coriaceous. Seeds striated 

 and convex at the back ; concave within. 



There are probably two more species of this genus, obscurely in- 

 dicated by J. Bauhin and other old writers, whose synonyms 

 require investigation. C. sylvestre, which name it is desirable 

 to retain, is well figured in his work. 1 have gathered it near 

 Verona, but with unripe, seeds, nor is the structure of its fruit 

 any where explained. 



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