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27. Cow Parsnip (Herddeum). — Fruit very flat, v/ith a broad border ; 

 carpels with three ribs on the back, and two distant marginal ones ; general 

 involucre falling early, partial of many leaves. Named from Hercules, who 

 is said to have used this or some similar plant medicinally. 



28. Hakt-wort (Tordf/Hum). — Fruit flat, with a broad thick border, either 

 waved or notched ; carpels with three faintly -marked ribs, and two distant 

 marginal ones. Name given by the Greeks, and thought to signify "lathe" 

 and "turn," because the seeds look as if turned in a lathe. 



***** Umheh compound ; fruit globose, not prickly ; carpels scarcely separating, 

 scarcely ribbed, and without rittce ; albumen solid. 



29. Coriander (Coridndnim). — Fruit globose ; carpels cohering ; general 

 involucre none ; partial on one side. Named from Greek, koris, a bug, from 

 the unpleasant odour. 



****** Umbels compound, fruit short and thick, not prickly nor beaked ; some- 

 what flattened, with or without rittce, aJhumen furrowed. 



30. Hemlock {Conium). — Fruit broadly egg-shaped ; carpels with five 

 prominent waved ridges j general involucre of few leaves, partial of three 

 leaves on one side. Name, the Greek word for the plant. 



31. Bladder-seed (Physosp&mum). — Fruit of two globose kidney shaped 

 carpels, with five slender ridges ; involucres both general and partial, of 1 — 5 

 leaves. Name from the Greek physa, a bladder, and sperma, a seed. 



32. Alexanders {Smymium).- — Fruit of two kidney-shaped carpels, each 

 having five prominent ridges. Name from the Greek smyrna, myrrh, from 

 the scent of some of the species. 



******* Umbels compound ; fruit oblong ; usually more or less beaked ; with 



or tvithout rittce. 



33. Shepherd's-needle (Scdndix). — Fruit contracted at the sides, with a 

 very long beak ; carpels with five blunt ridges ; general involucre none, or of 

 one leaf ; partial of several leaves, longer than the flowers. Name, the Greek 

 name of the Chervil. 



34. Beaked Parsley {Anthriscus). — Fruit narroAved below the short 

 Ijcak; carpels without ridges; beak with five ridges; general involucre 

 none; partial of several leaves. Name, the Greek name for this or some 

 allied plant. 



35. Chervil {Chcerophyllum). — Fruit contracted at the sides, with a short 

 beak ; carpels with five blunt ridges ; partial involucre of several leaves. 

 Name, in Greek, signifying a pleasant leaf, from the perfume of some species. 



36. Cicely {Myrrhis). — Fruit contracted at the sides, with a deep furrow 

 between the carpels ; carpels with five sharply-keeled ridges ; general in- 

 volucre wanting, partial of many leaves. Name from the Greek mijrrha, on 

 account of its fragrance. 



******** Fruit not beaked, clothed with prickles, or ivith a prickly involucre, 

 vittce two m' more together. 



37. Carrot {Daucus). — Fruit slightly flattened ; carpels united by theii' 

 faces, oblong, with bristly primary ridges, secondary ridges equal, winged 



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