CONOPODIUM.] VMBELLIFER^. 161 



ridges slender ; vitta) several in the interstices, often obscure or interrupted. 



Seed deeply grooved in front. DISTRIB. Europe, N". Africa, temp. Asia ; 



species 8. ETYM. K&VOS and irovs, from the conical disk-lobes. 



1. C. denuda'tum, Koch; leaf-lobes linear, bracts and bracteoles 0. 



Bunium flexuosum, With. 



Woods and fields ; fl. summer. Glabrous. Rootstock size of a chesnut, brown. 

 Stem 2-3 ft., slender, terete, flexuous. Leaves 3-ternate, broadly deltoid, on 

 slender petioles ; segments piiinatifid, lobes linear, the central largest. 

 Umbels terminal, drooping when young, 6-10 rayed ; flowers small. Fruit 

 tin., narrow-ovoid, ridges obscure; styles short, erect. DISTKIB. Western 

 Europe. Very similar to Carum Bulbocastanum. . 



17. MYR'RHIS, Scop. CICELY. 



Perennial tomeutose herbs. Leaves decompound. Umbels compound, 

 many-rayed ; bracts few or ; bracteoles many, membranous ; flowers 

 white, polygamous. Calyx-teeth minute or 0. Petals with a very short 

 inflexed point. Disk-lobes tumid. Fruit much elongate, hardly beaked, 

 commissure broad, carpophore 2-nd ; carpels very convex at the back, 

 primary ridges equal, hollow, very often rough, prominent ; vittse in the 

 interstices solitary, slender, or obsolete. Seed concave or deeply grooved 

 in front. DISTRIB. Mts. of Europe and temp. S. America; species 2. 

 ETYM. The old Greek name. 



1. M. odora'ta, Scopoli ; leaves whitish beneath, bracteoles lanceolate. 

 Mountain pastures, usually near houses, from Chester and Derby northwards 

 to Renfrew; ascending to 1,200 ft. in Yorkshire; not indigenous in Ireland ; 

 a denizen or alien, Watson; fl. May-June. Sparingly and finely hairy. 

 Root fleshy, fusiform. Stem 2-3 ft., leafy, terete, fistular, grooved, branched 

 above. Leaves deltoid, 3-pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, lobes serrate ; sheaths 

 large. Umbels terminal ; bracteoles membranous, awned ; flowers small, 

 outer only fertile. Fruit % in., linear-oblong, dark brown, ridges often 

 scabrid ; styles very slender, diverging. DISTRIB. Europe from France south- 

 wards and eastwards, W. Asia. Aromatic and stimulant ; once cultivated 

 as a pot-herb, still used in salads in Italy. 



18. SCAN'DIX, L. SHEPHERD'S NEEDLE. 



Annual herbs. Leaves pinnately decompound ; segments small, narrow. 

 Umbels simple or compound, bracts 1 or ; bracteoles several, entire or 

 cut ; flowers white, polygamous, outer often radiating. Cal^x-teeth minute 

 or 0. Petals often unequal, point short inflexed or 0. Disk dilated, 

 margin undulated. Fruit slender, subcylindric, produced into a long 

 beak, carpophore undivided or 2-fid ; carpels subterete, primary ridges 

 broad or filiform, secondary ; vittse solitary in the interstices, often 

 obscure. Seed deeply furrowed in front. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, 

 temp. Asia ; species 8 or 10. ETYM. The Greek name for a Chervil. 



1. S. Pecten-Ven'eris, L. ; fruit ciliate rough dorsally compressed. 

 A cornfield weed from Ross southwards ; ascending to 1,000 ft. in Yorkshire ; 

 a colonist, Watson; fl. June-Sept. Branched from the base, pubescent 

 with spreading hairs ; branches 6-18 in., rarely more. Leaves oblong, 2-3- 

 pinnate, segments very slender. Umbels terminal and lateral ; rays 1-2 



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