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sected. Flowers white or rose-tinted, the petals conspicuously unequal. Umbels 

 compound. Involucre none. Involucels of few narrow bractlets. Fruit sub- 

 globose, not constricted at the commissure; calyx-teeth conspicuous; ribs filiform 

 or acutish; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, a few on the commissure. — Species 2, 

 Mediterranean region (Europe, Asia and Africa) . (Ancient Latin name, perhaps 

 from Greek koris, bug, by reason of the odor of the leaves. ) 



1. C. sativum L. Coriander. One to 2^/2 feet high; leaflets of lower leaves 

 roundish or ovate, cleft and toothed, % to li/4 inches long; divisions of upper leaves 

 linear, 2 to 4 lines long; fruit 1% lines long. 



European cultivated plant, escaped from cultivation about settlements. July- 

 Sept. 



Locs. — Truckee, Sonne; Los Angeles (Erythea 1:59) ; Anaheim, Alice King; San Diego, T. 

 Brandegee. 



Eefs. — CORIANDRUM SATIVUM L. Sp. PL 256 (1753), type Italian; Jepson, Man. 706 (1925). 



5. APIUM L. 



Ours erect glabrous biennials with fibrous roots and pinnate leaves. Stems 

 tri- or di-chotomously branched, forming a paniculate inflorescence, the compound 

 umbels opposite the leaves, terminal on the branches or subsessile in the forks. 

 Involucre and involucels small or none, or the former sometimes f oliaceous. Flow- 

 ers white. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit elliptic-ovate or broader than long. Ribs 

 prominent, obtuse, equal. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure. 

 Seed-face plane. — Species about 11, all continents. (Old Latin name of Parsley.) 



1. A. graveolens L. Common Celery. Stems 2 to 4 feet high; lower leaves 

 long-petioled, the leaflets 5 (or 7 or 9), 1 to 3 inches long and as broad or broader, 

 coarsely toothed and 3-cleft or even 3-divided; upper leaves on short petioles or 

 sessile, the leaflets 3; rays 4 to 12 lines long; fruit 1/4 to l^ line long. 



European garden plant, naturalized in marshes or along streams in the valleys, 

 5 to 1500 feet. June-July. 



Logs. — Eamona, T. Brandegee; Eiverside, Hall; San Bernardino, Parish; Claremont, Chand- 

 ler; Los Angeles (Erythea 1:59) ; Carmel Eiver, Jepson 14,211; South Berkeley, Davy; Suisun 

 Marshes. Jepson 14,210. 



Eefs. — Apium graveolens L. Sp. PI. 264 (1753), type European; Parish, Zoe 1:9 (1890) ; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 350 (1901), ed. 2, 295 (1911), Man. 706 (1925). 



6. APIASTRUM Nutt. 



Small branching glabrous annual with dissected leaves. Flowers small, white, 

 in irregularly compound umbels. Rays and pedicels unequal. Involucre and in- 

 volucels none. Calyx-teeth wanting. Fruit somewhat laterally compressed, ellip- 

 tic-cordate, more or less tuberculate. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the 

 commissure. Seed-face narrowly concave. — Species 2, North America. (Apium, 

 Parsley, and aster, Latin suffix meaning wild.) 



1. A. angustifolium Nutt. Mock Parsley. Erect, di- or tri-chotomously 

 branched from the base, 4 to 8 (or 15) inches high; leaves opposite below, twice or 

 thrice ternately dissected into linear segments % to 1 inch long; umbels sessile in 

 the forks or opposite the upper leaves, consisting of 2 or 3 umbellets borne on un- 

 equal rays (1 inch long or less) , and of 1 or 2 usually sessile or sometimes pediceled 

 flowers in the center; umbellets 3 or 4-flowered, the pedicels unequal (4i/^ lines 

 long or less) or 1 flower sessile; fruit cordate, broader than high, % line long, 

 papillate-roughened all over; ribs inconspicuous. 



Dry hill slopes or sandy valleys, 400 to 2800 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills from 

 Sacramento Co. to Calaveras Co. ; Coast Ranges from Lake Co. to San Luis Obispo 

 Co.; cismontane Southern California. South to Lower California. Mar.-Apr. 



