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TJMBELLlFERiE. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 
* * Umbels or umbel lets capitate, imperfect. Calyx-lobes large. 
3. Sanicula. Fruit clothed with hooked prickles. 
4. Eryngium. Fruit clothed with scales. Flowers in thick heads. 
* * * Umbels compound and perfect. 
Fruit beset with bristly prickles, not flat. 
5. Daucus. Fruit with weak prickles in single rows on the ribs. 
Fruit smooth: the carpels strongly flattened on the back and 
winged at the edge (next to the commmissure). 
**■ Margin of the fruit single-winged. 
6. Polytsnia. Fruit surrounded with a broad and tumid corky 
margin, nearly ribless on the back. 
7. Heracleum. Fruit broadly wing-margined : the carpels minute¬ 
ly 5-ribbed on the back: lateral ribs close to the margin. 
Flowers white, the marginal somewhat radiant. 
8. Pastihaca. Fruit wing-margined : ribs of the carpels as in No. 
7. Flowers yellow, not radiant. 
9. Archemora. Fruit broadly winged : the 5 ribs on the back ap¬ 
proximate and equidistant. Flowers white. 
Margin of the fruit double-winged. 
10. Archangelica. Carpels merely 3-ridged on the back. Seed 
coated with oil-tubes. 
11. Conioselincm. Carpels narrowly 3-winged on the back. 
**""*“"*“ Frnit smooth, not flattened, the cross-section nearly orbicular J 
the carpels each with 5 equal wings or strongly projecting ribs. 
12. iETHusA. Fruit ovate-globose: carpels with 5 sharply keeled 
ridges, and single oil-tubes in the interstices. 
13. Ligusticum. Fruit elliptical: carpels with 5 sharp almost wing- 
r e( * ridges, and several oil-tubes in each interstice. 
Thaspium. Fruit elliptical or ovoid: carpels 5-winged. Flowers 
yellow or dark-purple. 
Fnnt smooth, compressed laterally or contracted at the sides, 
wingless. 
15. Zizia. Flowers yellow. Fruit oval or somewhat twin, 5 -ribbed. 
Leaves dissected. 
36. Bupleurum. Flowers yellow. Fruit ovoid-oblong: the carpels 
some what 5-ribbed. Leaves simple. 
17. Discopleura. Flowers white. Fruit ovoid: the lateral ribs 
united with a corky margin. Leaves very finely cut. 
1«. Ciccta. Flowers white. Fruit subglobose, twin. Leaves 2- 
3-teraate. 
19. Sidm. Flowers white. Fruit ovate-globose. Leaves all simply 
pinnate. 
20. Cryptot^nia. Flowers white. Fruit oblong. Leaves 3 -parted. 
