334 DICOTYL— CALYCIFLORAE 



Geniis 3. Cnidium. 



Flores albi aut rubeoli, biumbellati, umbellis compositis, 

 convexis, umbellulis totis fertilibus, raro in centro sterili- 

 bus; involucrum aut nullum aut mono-diphyllum; involucella 

 aut nuUa aut olygophylla; calyx margine obsoletus; itetala 

 aequalia, ovata, iutegra aut leviter biloba, cum lacinula in- 

 flexa; stamina corolla longiora, antheris subrotundis; rece- 

 ■ptaculum convexum vel subrepandum; styli in anthesi erecti, 

 long-iusculi, in fructu recurvati et longiores; stylopodia co- 

 nica; stigmata capitellata; diaclienium ovoideo - oblongum, e 

 latere commissurali compressura, giabrum; mericarpia quin- 

 quecostata, costis lateralibus marginalibus, oranibus anguste 

 alatis, alis aequalibus, valleculis univittatis, latere conimissu- 

 rali bivittatis; carpoxihorum filiforme, demura bipartitum, 11- 

 berum; semen seniiteres. Herbae annuae vel perennes; caulis 

 erectus, striatus, simplex aut ordinate ramosus; folia supra 

 decomposita et ordinate divisa, foliolis multifidls, laclniis 11- 

 nearlbus vel lanceolatis. 



Endl Gen. Pl. pag. 777. n. 4436. — Hoffm. UmheU. 1. 

 pag. 157,— DC. Prodr. 4. pag. lo2.—Bert. Fl. It. 8. pa- 

 gina 350. — Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic. 1. pag. 825. — Torn. Fl. 

 Sic. pag. 266. 



I. C. apioides. — Flores parvi, biumbellati, umbellis gran- 

 dlusculis, multiradiatis, convexis, solitariis, terminalibus ra- 

 mls et cauli, saepe nudis, raro involucro mono-diphyllo suf- 

 fultis; radii umbellae striati, latere Interno scabri; scapus lon- 

 gus et una cum pedicellls glaucus et strlatus; petala et sta- 

 mina alba et subaequalia, antherls flavis; receptaculum ut In 

 genere; styli duo, in fructu valde elongati, demum recurva- 

 ti; stylopodia, diachenium, mericarpia, valleculae, vittae et 

 semen ut in genere; caulis sulcatus, strlatus, farctus, erectus 

 vel adfecendens, simplex aut alterne ramosus, ramis erecto-pa- 

 rulis, sublnde inferne rubens, glaber, giaucus, tri-quadripe- 

 dalis; foUa inferiora longe petiolata, tripinnata, foliolis cu- 

 neatls, multifidis, uniformibus, lacinlis modo angustis et lan- 

 ceolatis, modo latis, semper breviter mucronulatis, mucronu- 



