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P. sativwm (Parsley).is naturalized from Europe. Leaves decompound, 
shining ; leaflets much cut. Flowers white or greenish. Inyolucres few- 
leaved ; involucels of many filiform leaves. 
6. HELOSCIADIUM, Koch. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed or obsolete. Petals ovate, entire, 
with a straight or incurved point. Fruit ovate or oblong, 
laterally compressed ; carpels with 5 filiform, prominent, equal 
ridges, the lateral marginal; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 
distinct, entire. Seeds convex, flattish in front.— Fl. Cap. il. 
p. 585. 
Stems prostrate or erect ; leaves pinnate or ternate, glabrous or hairy.— 
2 species, dispersed. 
7. PTYCHOTIS, Koch. 
Calyx-margin 5-toothed. Petals obovate, 2-fid, or deeply 
emarginate, with a long, inflexed point. Fruit compressed, 
ovate or oblong ; carpels with 5 equal, filiform, primary ridges, 
the lateral ones marginal; furrows with single vitte; carpo- 
phore 2-parted. Seeds convex, flattish in front.— FV. Cap. ii. 
p. 536. 
Annual or biennial. Cauline leaves much cut into slender segments. 
Umbels axillary; involucels many-leaved, involucre present or absent ; 
flowers white ; fruit smooth or muricated.—5 Cape species, dispersed. 
8. CARUM, Linn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete or nearly so. Petals obovate or 
elliptic, emarginate, with an inflexed point. Stylopod de- 
pressed or shortly conical. Fruit ovate or oblong, laterally 
compressed ; carpels with 5 filiform, equal ribs, the lateral 
marginal ; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 2-vittate; carpophore 
free, forked or 2-parted. Seeds convex, flattish in fruit.— FV. 
Cap. 1. p. 538. 
C. Capense, Sond., our only species, has a fleshy aromatic root (Fenkel- 
wortel), a branching stem ; 3-pinnate, capillary-multifid radical leaves, and 
sheath-like abortive cauline leaves. Flowers white.—Eastern and Western 
districts. 
9. PIMPINELLA, Linn. 
Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, with a 
long inflexed pomt. Fruit laterally compressed, ovate, 
crowned with the reflexed styles, whose bases are much 
swollen, smooth or hairy ; carpels with 5 filiform, equal ridges, 
the lateral marginal; furrows with many vitte ; commissure 
2-vittate ; carpophore free, 2-fid.— #7. Cap. ui. p. 588. 
Herbs with 2-pinnatifid or cordate radical leaves and pinnatifid cauline 
leaves. Neither involucre nor involucel. Flowers white or yellow.—2 
Cape species, both Eastern. 
