410 MYRRHIS. [CLASS V, ORDER II. 



late segment, witli a membranous margin anil fringed edge, partial of 

 about ten reflexed ones, with a long slender point. Floivers numer- 

 ous, white, one or two only in the centre fertile. Calyx an obsolete 

 margin. Petals inversely heart-shaped, with a small inflexed point, 

 those of the outer flowers larger than the others. Styles short, spread- 

 ing. Stigmas small, obtuse. Disk conical. Fruit oblong, smooth, 

 with compressed sides. Carpels roundish at the back, with five obtuse 

 or flattish ridges, the two lateral ones forming the margin. Channels 

 with single slender vittcB. Albumen roundish at the back, furrowed in 

 front. 



Habitat. — Road side near Guthrie, leading to Arbroath, Scotland. — 

 Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial ; flowering in June. 



GENUS LXXXIII. MY'RRHIS.— Scoroii. Cicely. 



Gen. Char. Calyx an obsolete margin. Petals obcordate, with an 



inflexed point. Fruit laterally comjiressed. Carpels with a deep 



furrow between them, of five equal acutely winged hollow ridges. 



Channels deep, without vitta. Albumen closely invested with a 



second covering of the pericarp, the sides rolled inwards. General 



involucre none, partial of numerous segments. — Name from 



Myrrha, Myrrh, from the peculiar odour of the leaves. 



1. M. odor'ata, Scop. (Fig. 471.) Siceet Cicely. Leaves villous ; 



partial involucre numerous, lanceolate, with a long slender point and 



ciliated margin ; fruit large. 



English Flora, vol. ii. p. 50. — Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 139. — 

 Lindley, Synopsis, p. 125. — Scandix odorata, t. 697. 



Root tapering, fleshy, sweet and aromatic. Stem erect, from two to 

 four feet high, round, finely striated, smooth or downy, especially about 

 the joints, leafy, branched. Leaves large, thrice pinnated, more or 

 less thickly clothed with soft pubescence, paler beneath, above palish 

 green, frequently about the middle of the leaves spotted, with irregular 

 pale almost while blotches, footstalks long of the lower leaves, shorter 

 above, hollow, striated, and downy, the base much dilated into a large 

 striated sheath, embracing the branches, leaflets ovate-lanceolate, pin- 

 nalifid, cut and serrated. Umbels mostly terminal, of numerous long 

 downy nearly equal rays, the partial ones slender, short. General 

 involucre none, partial of numerous lanceolate ones, with a long slender 

 point, and more or less fringed margin, pale, thin, ribbed and mem- 

 branous, reflexed. Floivers white, nearly equal, the central ones, and 

 frequently whole umbels abortive. Petals inversely heart-shaped, with 

 u small inflexed point. Stamens on long slcnder^/«wc»^-, with small 



