Vor. II.] CARROT FAMILY. 
3. Washingtonia divaricata Brit- 
ton. Western Sweet Cicely. 
(Fig. 2682.) 
Osmorrhiza divaricata Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. \ Mi 
I: 639. Name only. 1840. 
Foliage pubescent; stem slender, 2°-3° high, \ 
widely branched above; leaf-segments thin, 
ovate, acute, or acuminate, coarsely toothed 
and usually incised, 2/-2%4’ long; umbels | 
long-peduncled, 3-6-rayed, the very slender SK 
divaricate rays 2’-4’ long in fruit; involucels Y 
of 1-3 subulate bracts, or commonly none; 
pedicels very slender, 2’/-1’ long; fruit about ; 
6’ long, 1’ wide or rather more, beaked; 
style and stylopodium only 4’ long, the 
stylopodium slender-conic. 
Manitoba to South Dakota, British Columbia od EE ss <- Wee WSN & 
toba. 1 , YY x 
and California. May-June. gE Ne SASS ia 
30. SCANDIX L. Sp. Pl. 256. 1753. 
Annual herbs, with pinnately dissected leaves, the lobes very narrow. Flowers white, in 
compound several-rayed (rarely 1-rayed) umbels. Invyolucre none, or rarely of 1 bract. In- 
volucels of several entire lobed or dissected bracts. Calyx-teeth minute or obsolete. Petals 
mostly unequal, the outer larger. Fruit linear, or linear-oblong, flattened laterally, pro- 
longed into a beak mostly much longer than the body; primary ribs prominent; secondary 
ribs none; oil-tubes solitary, or wanting. Seed-face sulcate. Stylopodium short. [Greek 
name of the plant. ] 
About Io species, natives of the Old World. 
1. Scandix Pécten-Véneris L, 
Venus’- or Lady’s-comb. Shep- 
herd’s-needle. (Fig. 2683.) 
Scandix Pecten-Veneris I, Sp. Pl. 256. 1753. 
Pubescent, stem 6/-18’ high, branched, the 
branches ascending. Leaves 2-3-pinnately 
dissected, the lobes acute, less than %4’’ wide; 
lower leaves long-petioled; involucre none; in- 
volucels of several lanceolate bracts sometimes 
2-3-lobed at the apex; flowers very nearly ses- 
sile; fruiting carpels 4//-6’’ long, strongly 
ribbed, terminated by a straight flat beak 114/— 
214’ long, about 1’’ wide, its edges with stiff 
ascending hairs. 
In waste places, northern New Jersey and in 
ballast about the sea-ports, Fugitive from Eu- 
rope or Asia. May-July. Old English names, 
Pink or Adam’s Needles, Beggar’s-, Crake- or 
Crow-needles, Devil’s Darning Needles, Hedge- 
hog, Needle-Chervil, Poukenel. 
Zhe CONIUM L. Sp. Ble 2st a7 53. 
Tall biennial glabrous herbs, with spotted stems, pinnately decompound leaves, and 
small white flowers in compound many-rayed umbels. Involucre and involucels of ovate 
acuminate bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals obcordate, or entire with a short inflexed 
point; fruit broadly ovate, glabrous, somewhat flattened laterally. Carpels strongly wavy- 
ribbed; large oil-tubes none, but a layer of oil-secreting tissue next the deeply concave 
seed. [Greek, hemlock. ] 
Two species, one of them native of Europe and Asia, the other of Africa, 
