154 UMBELLIFER^!. [SANICVLA. 



1. S. europse'a, L. ; fertile flowers subsessile, males pedicelled. 

 Copses, &c. ; ascending upwards of 1,000 ft. in the N. of England ; fl. June- 

 July. Glabrous. Stem 1-2 ft. , simple, almost leafless. Ra<l!<;il / 

 in. diam., long-petioled, suborbicular, 3-5-lobed or -partite ; lobes cuneate, 

 cut, acutely serrate. Umbel -f in. diam., irregular, rays few; bracts 2-5, 

 unequal, simple or pinnatifid, serrate. Flows pink or white. Fruit % in. ; 

 styles spreading. DISTRIB. Europe, N. and Mts. of trop. Africa. 



A. PHYSOSPER'MUM, Cusson. BLADDEU-SKKD. 

 Erect, herbs, perennial ; root fusiform. Leaves 3-nately compound, 

 segments cuueate. Umbels compound ; bracts and bracteoles few, linear ; 

 flowers white. Calyx-teeth small or 0. Petals with a long in flexed point. 

 Disk-lobes conical. Fruit didymous, bladdery, broader than long ; com- 

 missure narrow, carpophore simple; carpels terete, smooth, primary ridges 

 slender, interstices 1-vittate. Seed loose, concave in front. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, W. Asia; species 2 or 3. ETYM. Qvaa. and ffirepfia, from the 

 bladdery fruits. 



1. P. cornubien'se, DC. ; branches panicled, umbels long-peduncled. 

 Thickets, Tavistock, Bodmin (on the Priory lands) ; fl. July-Aug. Glabrous, 

 except the puberulous margins and ribs of the leaf. Stem 1-2 ft., erect, 

 striate. Radical leaves long-petioled, flat, 2-3-ternate ; segments ^-5 in., 

 deeply laciniate, long-petioled. Umbel-ray* 10-20, 1-3 in., suberect, fur- 

 rowed. DISTRIB. S. of France and Spain eastward. 



5. CONI'UM, L. HEMLOCK. 



Tall, glabrous, biennial herbs. Leaves piunately compound. I'mlil* 

 compound, many-rayed ; bracts and bracteoles many, small ; flowers white, 

 polygamous. Calyx-teeth 0. Petals obtuse, or the tip shortly inilexed. 

 Disk-lobes depressed. Fruit broadly ovoid, laterally comprost ,1 ; c 11711- 

 missure constricted, carpophore undivided ; carpels 5-angled, primary 

 ridges prominent, obtuse, lateral distinct ; vittae many, slender, irregular ; 

 styles short, reflexed. Seed deeply grooved in front. DISTUIII. Europe, 

 Asia, N. Africa ; species 2. ETYM. The old Greek name. 



1. C. macula turn, L. ; stem spotted, leaf-segments pinnatifid. 

 Banks, roadsides, &c., ascending to near 1,000 ft. in Yorkshire ; fl. June-July. 

 Foatid. Stem 2-5 ft, stout, leafy, furrowed, purple-spotted, paniculately 

 branches above. Leaves large, deltoid, finely 2-pinnate ; segments i in., 

 ovate oblong or deltoid, flaccid, lower petioled, ultimate serrate. Imbelt 

 terminal and axillary, shortly peduncled ; bracts reflexed, short, unilateral ; 

 rays 10-20, -1 in.; outer flowers rather larger. Fruit in., greenish- 

 brown. DISTUIB. Europe, N. Africa, Siberia ; introd. in N. America. 



6. SMYRN'IUM, L. Al.KXANDKKs. 



Stout, erect, glabrous, biennial or perennial herbs. Radical leaves 

 3-nately compound, segments broad. Umbels compound ; bruets and 

 bracteoles few or ; flowers yellow, polygamous. Calyx-teeth minute or 0. 

 Petals with a short inflexed point. Disk-lobes conical or dcpres> '!. Fruit 

 ovoid, laterally compressed or didymous ; commissure much constrii-tcd, 

 carpophore 2-partite ; carpels subterete or angular, with 3 prominent ribs ; 

 vittae many; styles short, recurved. Seed deeply grooved in fr;>nt. 



