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UMBELLIPERJB. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



pinnatisect into 3-5, ovate segments, or undivided ; the* upper opposite 

 united at lase^ ovate, more or less lobed or dentate. Umbels 12-20-ray- 

 ed. Involucre and involucel 0. Fruit .006 broad, mericarps glohular ' 

 styles longer than stylopodia — Spring — Fields and rocky places ; Meri 

 'Ayun to Haui'an, Lebanon, Amanus, and northward. 



Var. alternum, Post. Upper 

 branches alternate. Damascus plain. 



3. S. Olusatrum, L. (2) 1 to 2, 



glabrous. Lower leaves 2-3-ternatisect 

 into ovate, crenate, often 3-lobed leaflets ; 

 upper with a short, ovate, sheathing, 

 membranous petiole, 3-sect into ovate^ cre- 

 nate leajiets. Umbel o-lo-rayed ; involu- 

 cre 0; involucel minute ; fruit .008 long 

 and broad, loith prominent, acute, dorsal 

 ribs, and style as long as stylopodium — 

 April and May — Waste places and road- 

 sides; common. 



Fig. 166. 



UmbelletofS. Olusatrum. 



14. SMYRI^IOPSIS, Boiss. Smyrniopsis. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit flattened laterally, stylopodia broad, 

 flattened. Mericarps nearly straight, acutely pentagonal, with 5, pro- 

 minent, acute ribs, the lateral at the margins. Intervals with 1-2- c© 

 vittse. Albumen involute — Biennial or perennial herbs, with the as- 

 pect of Colladonia ; flowers yellow. 



S. cacliroides, Boiss, 2^ .5 to .8 ; stem thick, verticillate- 

 corymbose, the plant having a hemispherical aspect, Lowest leaves 

 oblong, entire, the others pinnatisect, with flattened petiole, and 2-3 

 pairs of oblong, decurrent, crenate leaflets, undivided or 2-parted ; 

 upper leaves reduced to broad, oblong petioles, bearing 3, small, ovate 

 or oblong leaflets or 0. Eays of umbel oo, becoming .2 ^o .3 long, pedi- 

 cels 4-5 times as long as fruit ; style scarcely longer than stylopodium 

 — Spring — Hauran to EdUp, Aleppo, and eastward. 



15. LECOKIA, D.C. Lecokia. 



Calyx-teeth 5, short. Fruit ovoid, 

 large, constricted at commissure. Sty- 

 lopodium elongated-conical. Ribs of 

 mericarp 5, thick, corky, muricate. In- 

 tervals obtusely grooved. Vittse under 

 the epicarp, numerous, adherent to seed. 

 Inner face of albumen concave — A tall, 

 perennial herb with fusiform root and 

 polygamous flowers. 



L«. Cretica, Lam. % .6 to 1, 



glabrous, stem terete, striate, branches 

 somewhat whorled above. Lower leaves 

 long-petioled ; broad-triangular in out- 

 line, subternately bi -pinnatisect into ob- 

 long, acuminate, dentate leaflets, the ter- 



FiG. 167. 



