UMBELLIFEROUS TRIBE. 



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numerous prickles between ; partial bracts numerous. 

 (Name of doubtful origin.) 



*** Umbels compound ; fruit more or less beaked. 



30. SCANDIX (Shepherd's Needle). Fruit contracted 

 at the sides, with a very long beak ; carpels with 5 

 blunt ridges ; general bracts 0, partial several, longer 

 than the flowers. (Name, the Greek name of the plant.) 



31. ANTHRISCUS (Beaked Parsley). Fruit with a 

 sl.ort beak ; carpels without ridges ; general bracts 0, 

 partial several. (Name, the Greek name of this or 

 some allied plant.) 



32. CH^ROPHYLLUM (Chervil). Fruit contracted at 

 the sides, with a short beak ; carpels with 5 blunt 

 ridges ; partial bracts several. (Name in Greek signi- 

 fying pleasant leaf, from the agreeable perfume of some 

 species.) 



33. MYRRHIS (Cicely). Fruit contracted at the sides, 

 with a deep furrow between the carpels ; carpels with 5 

 sharply-keeled ridges ; general bracts 0, partial several. 

 (Name from the Greek, myrrha, myrrh, from the fra- 

 grance of the leaves.) 



HYDROO(5TYL6 VULO ARTS (Common White-rot, Marsh Pennywort). 



