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carpels with 5 slender, blunt ridges ; bracts, general and 

 partial, several. ("Name, according to Theis, from the 

 Celtic word siw, water." Sir W. J. Hooker.) 



16. BUPLEURUM (Hare's-ear). Fruit oblong ; carpels 

 with 5 prominent ridges, crowned at the flat base of 

 the styles ; partial bracts, very large. (Name from the 

 Greek, bous, an ox, and pleuron, a rib, from the ribbed 

 leaves of some species.) 



*** Umbels compound ; fruit not flattened, not prickly, 

 nor beaked. 



17. (ENANTH (Water Drop wort). Fruit egg-shaped, 

 cylindrical, crowned with the long straight styles ; car- 

 pels with 5 blunt, corky ridges ; flowers somewhat 

 rayed, those of the centre only being fertile. (Name 

 from the Greek, oinos, wine, and anthos, a flower, from 

 the wine-like smell of the flowers.) 



18. ^ETHUSA (Fool's Parsley). Fruit nearly globose ; 

 carpels with 5 sharply-keeled ridges, crowned with the 

 reflexed styles ; partial bracts 3, all on one side, droop- 

 ing. (Name from the Greek, aitho, to burn, from its 

 acrid properties.) 



19. FCENICULUM (Fennel). Fruit elliptical; carpels 

 with 5 bluntly-keeled ridges ; bracts 0. (Name from 

 the Latin, fcenum, hay, to which it has been compared 

 in smell.) 



20. LIGUSTICUM (Lovage). Fruit elliptical ; carpels 

 with 5 sharp, somewhat winged ridges ; bracts, both 

 general and partial, several. (Name from Liguria, where 

 the cultivated species abounds.) 



21. SILAUS (Pepper Saxifrage). Fruit egg-shaped ; 

 carpels with 5 sharp somewhat winged ridges ; petals 

 scarcely notched (yellow) ; general bracts, 1 or 2, partial 

 several. (Name given by the Eomans to some probably 

 allied plant.) 



22. MUM (Spignel). Fruit elliptical ; carpels with 

 5 sharp, winged ridges ; petals ' tapering at both ends ; 



