22. UMBELLIFER^. 



71 



linear-oblong, compressed later- 

 ally, rough on the edges, pro- 

 longed into a beak 3-5 cm. (I5-2 

 in.) long; carpels with 5 blunt 

 ribs; vittas none. 



gullies, cultivated 

 Dec. — Europe; wes- 



Roadsides 

 land. — Sept. 

 tern Asia. 



6. Ai'ir^r, L. 



1. 



Apium g^raveolens, 



L. Celery. Glabrous, shining, 

 aromatic biennial; stem hollow, 

 furrowed; lower leaves pinnati- 

 sect with 3 or distant oval seg- 

 ments, each deeply divided into 

 3 incised lobes, the upper leaves 

 with 3 narrow segments; flowers 

 white, shortly pedicellate. in 

 .sessile or subsessile umbels of 4-8 

 unequal rays; involucre and in 

 volucel none ; calyx-teeth absent ; 

 fruit subglobular, compressed 



laterally 



Scandix Pecten-Veneris. 



the carpels with 5 

 slender, whitish ribs ; vittas 1 to 

 each furroAv ; carpophore un- 

 divided. 



Waterfall Gully. — Nov. -Jan. — 

 The wild form inhabits marshy 

 land on the sea-coast of most 

 countries. 



7. Sir>T, L. 



1. Sium latijugrum, 



Clarke. Glabrous perennial, with 

 stolon-bearing rootstock ; stem 

 stout, erect, hollow, furrowed, 

 branching; leaves pinnatisect, 



~~^il^<^ i^^Y^^^^ *^^^ lower ones with 8-9 pairs of 

 "^■^[^^ Tsl^ V}jJ oval-lanceolate, regularly toothed 



'^'' leaflets, sessile, truncate at base, 



set at an oblique angle to the 

 axis, upper leaves with fewer, 

 irregularly toothed leaflets ; 

 flowers white, in terminal, leaf- 

 ooDosed umbels of 10-12 uneqxinl 

 rays ; involucre and inv^olucel of 4-8 linear-lanceolate 

 bracts, entire or with 1 or 

 petals slightly notched with 



small, subglobular, compressed laterally ; carpels with 

 blunt, equal ribs, one carpel often abortive; the space 



Apium graveolens. 



2 teeth ; calyx-teeth none ; 

 an incurved point ; fruit 



