S38 UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



1§. PRA:^G0S, Lindl. Prangos. 



• Calyx-margin almost 0. Disk broad, generally with wa^y mar- 

 gin. Fruit oblong or globular, or slightly flattened laterally, with more or 

 less spongy pericarp. Ribs of mericarp 5, expanded into corky or mem- 

 branous, flat or wavy wings, equal, or the dorsal narrower. Oil-tubes 

 numerous, adherent to the seed along with the thin endocarp. Inner 

 face of albumen deeply grooved, with involute margins — Perennial 

 herbs, with yellow flowers, and leaves dissected into filiform or linear 

 lobes. 



* Outer surface of petals glabrous. 



1. P. platyclilaBiia, Boiss. 2|! .6 to 1; stem reddish, stout. 

 Lower leaves .6 long and broad, ovate triangular in outline, dissected 

 into filiform, .05 to .08 long lobes. Umbels 5-20-rayed; bracts of \vl- 

 ToYaGYe ?iVi(\ VON o\\xq,q\ ovate-ohlong, acute, membranous; fruit .03 long, 

 oblong, longer than pedicel ; wings straight, half as broad as diameter 

 of seed — August — Near summit of Akherdagh, and northward. 



"^ ^ Outer surface of petals hirsute. 



2. P. asperula, Boiss, If Farsh-ed- Fig. 170. 

 daba\ 1 ; stem angled, with opposite or verti- 

 cillate branches. Leaves roughened with 

 white papillae, the radical triangular in out- 

 line, .5 to .6 long, dissected into .005 to .015 

 long, filiform lobes ; those of stem with longer 

 lobes. Umbels 10-20-rayed ; bracts of involu- 

 cre and involucel filiform; fruit globular, .015 

 in diameter, wings wavy, reddish, broader than 

 the diameter of the seed — June — Hills and 

 fields ; Lebanon to alpine regions. 



Var. leiopetala, Post. Petals giabres- 

 cent or glabrous — Gaza; Jebel Quleb (Hau- FmitofP. asperula. 

 ran). 



3. P. Herniouis, If Boiss, .3 to .5, crisp-puberulent ; stem 

 corymbose, much branched. Root-leaves ovate in outline, .15 'to .25 

 long, 3-4-pinnatisect into .002 to .004 long, linear, crowded, mucronoM 

 lobules. Umbels 5-7 -rayed; bracts of involucre and involucel linear-' 

 lanceolate ; fruit thrice as long as pedicel, ovate, depressed at apex ; 

 wings straight, spongy at base, with triangular, transverse section, and 

 entire, acute margins, much narrower than diameter of seed — May — 

 Ravines on east flank of Hermon; Tel Shihan (Leja). 



19. COI.L.ADOMIA, D.C. Colladonia. 



Calyx-teeth short or 0. Disk cup-shaped, broad. Fruit somewhat 

 dorsally flattened, pericarp spongy. Ribs of mericarps 5, all, or the 

 lateral only, winged or keeled, the intermediate or external often obso- 

 lete in one mericarp. Oil-tubes numerous, adherent, along with the 

 thin endocarp, to the seed. Inner face of seed deeply grooved — Peren- 

 nial, yellow-flowered herbs, with pinnate leaves, divided into large, ob- 

 long leaflets. 



1. C. alata, Boiss. 2f .5 to .8. Lower leaves entire, orpinnati- 

 sect into 1-2 pairs of ovate, obtuse, crenate leaflets, the lower usually 



