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UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 



1. C. pinnatum DC. Segments of the leaves 2-3 pairs, narrow, distant, the 

 terminal one the longest. McDonald Co., Mo. (Bush) to Kan. and Tex. 



28. LIGUSTICUM L. LOVAGE 



Fruit oblong or ovate, flattened laterally if at all, glabrous ; 

 carpels with prominent equal acute ribs and broad intervals, 

 oil-tubes 2-6 in the intervals, 6-10 on the commissure. Stylo- 

 podium conical. Smooth perennials, from large aromatic roots, 

 with large ternately compound leaves, mostly no involucre, 

 involucels of narrow bractlets, and white flowers in large many- 

 rayed umbels. (Named from the country Liguria, where the 

 officinal Lovage of the gardens abounds.) 



1. L. canadense (L.) Britton. (NONDO, AWGELICO.) Stem 

 stout, branched, 1-2 m. high ; leaves very large, %-4-ternate ; 

 leaflets broadly oblong, 5-12 cm. long, coarsely serrate,' fruit 

 ovate, 4-6 mm. long; seed with angled back. (L. actaeifolium 

 of auth., not Michx.) Rich ground, s. Pa. to Mo., and south w. 



2. L. sc6thicum L. (SCOTCH L.) Stem simple, 3-6 dm. high ; 

 leaves biternate ; leaflets ovate, 2. 5-5 cm. long, coarsely toothed; 

 fruit narrowly oblong, 8-10 mm. long; seed with round back. 

 Salt marshes and rocks, along the coast from N. Y. north w. 

 Aug. (Eu.) FIG. 833. 



29. CORIANDRUM [Tourn.] L. CORIANDER 



Fruit nearly globose, not at all narrowed at the commissure ; ribs filiform 

 or acutish. Seed dorsally compressed, somewhat concave on the inner face. 

 Slender glabrous herbs, with pinnately dissected leaves, compound umbels, no 

 involucre, few-parted involucels, and white or roseate unequal 

 petals. (The ancient Latin name.) 



1. C. SAxlvcM L. Lower leaves pinnate, the leaflets flabelli- 

 forrn, many-cleft, cuneate at the base, upper leaves deeply cut 

 into linear segments. Waste places, becoming frequent. (Adv. 

 from Eurasia.) 



30. AETHtfSA L. FOOL'S PARSLEY 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovoid-globose, slightly flattened 

 dorsally ; carpel with 5 thick sharp ribs ; oil-tubes solitary in 

 the intervals, 2 on the commissure. Poisonous annuals, with 

 2-3-ternately compound leaves, divisions pinnate, ultimate seg- go, . ,--.,, 

 ments small and many-cleft, no involucre, long narrow involu- x l' 



eels, and white flowers. (Af0oi/<ra, burning, in allusion to the 

 bright or shining foliage, probably in translation of the Swedish vernacular 

 name glis.) 



1. A. CYNXPIUM L. A fetid poisonous herb, in waste or cultivated grounds, 

 from N. S. to Pa., Minn., and Ont. June- Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) FIG. 834. 



31. COELOPLEtRUM Ledeb. 



Fruit globose to ellipsoid, with prominent nearly equal thick corky ribs 

 (none of them winged); oil-tubes solitary in the intervals and under the ribs, 

 2-4 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp. Stout glabrous (or inflo- 

 rescence puberulent) maritime perennials, with 2-3-ternate leaves on very large 

 inflated petioles, few-leaved deciduous involucre, involucels of numerous small 

 linear-lanceolate bractlets (often conspicuous or even leaf-like), and greenish- 

 white flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From xcuXos, hollow, and ir\cvp6t>, a rib. ) 



