Plants of the Punjab. 391 
Heres, Erect, 
Vicatia millefolia, 
UMBELLIFERA. 
iHaBe dei. OF 
Kashmir, Tragbol, 
11,400 ft. 
(C. B. Clarke). 
Elzosticta meifolia, 
UMBELLIFER A. 
Bib il..ans O73: 
The Plains. 
Apium graveolens, 
Wild celery, 
Ajmud, bhutjhata. 
UMBELLIFERZ. 
FP. B. 1-u- 678. 
Himalaya, 
1-2,000 ft. 
Salt Range, 
Choa Saidan Shah 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Cicuta virosa, 
Cowbane or water 
hemlock, 
UMBELLIFERAE. 
ES By tn.679: 
Kashmir, Srinagar. 
WitH ALTERNATE EXsTrepuLATE CoMPOUND LEAVES. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN UMBELS. 
like the last species, but the ultimate segments are 
much finer, thread-like, fruit much smaller, less grooved 
on the inner face. 
medium size, annual, smooth, sometimes unbranched, 
root spindle-shaped ; leaves 2 or 8 pinnate, ultimate 
segments linear ; flowers minute, on 6-12 stalks, } in. long, 
in compound umbels with 5-11 rays, 3-1! in. long, bracts 
5-6, lanceolate, bracteoles similar but smaller, calyx teeth 
none, petals notched at the tip, ovate with a broad tip, 
stamens 5, styles 2, short ; fruit broader than long, 4, -by 
j; In., ridges none, oil glands minute, 2-1 in each furrow. 
medium size to large, biennial ; leaves, radical, pinnate 
with large deeply lobed segments, stem leaves deeply 
divided into three, segments once or twice divided, coarse- 
ly toothed at the apex; flowers minute, white, on 6-16 
stalks in compound umbels with 5-10 rays on a short leaf 
opposed main stalk, calyx-teeth none, petals 5, ovate, short- 
pointed, tip inflexed, stamens 5, styles 2; fruit qe-qiy in., 
orbicular, ridges distinct, narrow, vitte broad. This 
plant is found in wet places, it is poisonous when ° 
wild : the seed is used as a spice, apiol—a drug—is obtained 
from this plant. The cultivated plant is eaten when 
blanched, the leaves and seeds are used for flavouring 
soups. 
medium size to large, perennial, stem hollow, streaked ; 
leaves pinnate, stem leaves 2-3 pinnate, seements lanceo- 
late, toothed, leaflets 1-2 by 4-4 in. ; flowers minute, white, 
in compound umbels on main stalks, 2-8 in., terminal and 
leaf opposed, rays up to 15, 14-24 in., bracts none, bracte- 
oles 2-8, 3 in., linear, calyx-teeth 5, short-pointed, minute, 
petals 5, ovate with a broad notched tip, stamens 5, styles 
2; fruit =; in., ovoid, primary ridges broad, corky, blunt, 
furrows very narrow, one oil gland, seeds half round, flat- 
tened. This plant is poisonous. 
