333 UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



fruit ovate-oblong — May — Rocky and clayey fields ; Damascus to 

 Aleppo, Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



4. SANICULA, L. Sanicle. Black Snake-Root. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx-teeth nearly herbaceous. Petals 

 erect, connivent, obovate, with slender tip. Fruit ovate-globular, some- 

 what flattened laterally, densely covered with hooked prickles. Mericarps 

 many-vittate ; ribs obsolete. Carpophore — Herbs, with few-rayed 

 umbels, and capitate umbellets, the hermaphrodite flowers nearly ses- 

 sile, the staminate pedicelled. 



S. Europeea, L. 1^ .3 to .8, stem scape-like, 1-0-leaved. Root- 

 leaves long-petioled, palmatifid or parted, with obovate-cuneate, trifid, 

 mucronate-serrate segments ; stem-leaves much smaller, 3-5-palmatipar- 

 tite, with obovate to lenticular, dentate segments. Umbels usually 

 compound. Involucel-leaves numerous, linear-aristate, shorter than 

 head — Summer — Woods •, Amanus, and northward. 



5. LAOCECIA, L. Lagcecia. 



Calyx-lobes large, pectinate. Petals long, with obtuse grooved 

 tip, notched at af>ex, the margins ending in two, long, straight, bristles, 

 Styiopodium and style by abortion 1. Mericarps by abortion 1, ovoid, 

 crowned by the calyx ; the rii s filiform, hardly visible ; vittae ; seeds 

 nearly terete, with flat, internal surface — Annual herbs, with simple, 

 globular, many-flowered umbels, and 1-flowered umbellets. 



L. cumiiiotdes, L. © .2 to .5, glabrous; stem erect, wavy, 

 sparingly leafy. Leaves linear in outline, pinnatisect, with minute, ses- 

 sile, ovate, alternate leaflets, cut into oblong, aristate lobes. Umbels 

 nodding before flowering ; involucre-leaves pinnatipartite into long- 

 aristate lobes ; involucel-leaves 4-5, pectinate ; flower pedicelled with- 

 in involucel ; seed setulose — Spring — Dry fields ; common every- 

 where. 



Tribe III. ECHINOPHOREiX:. 



6. ECHINOPHORA. Receptacle growing, enclosing the base of the fruit. Vittae solitary, 



7. P YCNOCVCLA. Receptacle not growing. Vittae 2-3 in intervals, 



6. ECHINOPHORA, L. Echinophora. 



Calyx-teeth acute, those of ray flowers unequal, often 0. Fruit ob- 

 long-pjTamidal, somewhat terete. Styiopodium conical, entire. Peri- 

 carp membranous. Ribs obsolete. Albumen hollow on its inner face 

 — Spinescent or unarmed herbs, with white or yellowish flowers ; one 

 mericarp sometimes abortive ; fruit at maturity enclosed in the 

 indurated involucel and staminate pedicels and calyces. 



E. Sibtliorpiaiia, Guss. 24 -4 to .5, puberulent ; stem striate, 

 corymbose many-branched. Root-leaves ovate to oblong in outline, 3- 

 pinnatisect, segments cuneate-oblong, cleft to or beyond middle into 3- 

 7, oblong, callous-tipped teeth, the upper pinnatisect into sliort, 2-3- 

 toothed lobes, or undivided. Involucre-leaves short-lanceolate, those 

 of involucel triangular-lanceolate, at length indurated, spreading-re- 

 flexed ; outer calyx-teeth of staminate flowers oblong-lanceolate, inner 



