APIACEJE OR UMBELLIFERJE. 



volucres variable. Flowers yellow or yellowish green, often 

 polygamous. 



125. S. Olusatrura Linn. sp. plant. 376. Eng. Sot. t. 230. D C. 

 prodr. iv. 247. Wet places throughout Europe. (Alexander.) 



Stem taper. Cauline leaves ternate, with ovate serrated segments. 

 Involucels very short. Formerly cultivated in lieu of Celery; the 

 leaves have a pleasant slightly aromatic flavour. The fruit is carmina- 

 tive and used to be officinal. 



CORIANDRUM. 

 Calyx-teeth 5, acute, unequal, permanent. Petals obovate emar- 



flnate with an inflexed segment, the exterior radiating and bifid, 

 ruit globose, with 10 ribs, scarcely separating. Half-fruits 

 with 5 primary depressed wavy ridges and 4 secondary ones 

 (besides the marginals) more prominent and keeled. Channels 

 without vittae ; commissure with 2 vittae. Seed hollowed out in 

 front with a loose skin. A smooth herb. Leaves multifid. 

 Umbel with 3-5 rays. Involucre none. Involucels about 

 3-leaved, halved. 



126. C. sativum Linn. sp. 367. DC. prodr. iv. 250. Eng. 

 Bot. t. 67. Fl. Grac. t. 283. Nees and Eberm. pi. med. t. 286. 

 handb.iv.15. Woodv.t.l8l. S. and C. il. t. 94. Smith Eng. Fl. 

 ii. 67. In the corn-fields of Tartary (Szovitz), the Levant, 

 Greece, Italy, south of Europe. Not really wild in England. 

 (Coriander.) 



Root tapering. Stem erect, 12 or 18 inches high, more or less 

 branched, leafy, round, striated. Lower leaves pinnate, on longish 

 slender stalks, their leaflets wedge-shaped, or fan-shaped, and acutely 

 notched ; upper leaves multifid, in fine linear segments. Umbels 

 stalked, of 4 or 5 general rays, rarely more ; the partial rays more 

 numerous. Flowers white, often with a reddish tint. Fruit pale 

 brown, somewhat coriaceous, spherical, 1J line in diameter, all the 

 ridges indistinctly shown in consequence of their slight elevation ; the 

 vittae of the commissure short, lunate, just visible without dissection. 

 Fruit carminative and aromatic. Cullen considered it as more power- 

 fully correcting the odour and taste of senna, than any other aromatic. 



ARALIACE^l. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 25. 



PANAX. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx obsolete, 5-toothetl. Petals 5. 

 Stamens 5, inserted with the petals under the edge of the disk 

 and alternate with them. Styles 2-3, short. Fruit succulent, 

 compressed, orbicular, 2-3-celled; cells leathery 1-seeded. 



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