340 UMBELLIFERiE. (PAESLEY FAMILY.) 



* * Petals notched or Q-lobed, with strap-shaped, inflexed tip, white or yellowish. 



Tlg. 



•26. AM MI. (g) Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, or dissected into capillary lobes, ovate or obloiiff. 

 Ribs filiform. 



27. CARUM. @ 21 Root fusiform or tuberous. Leaves dissected into linear or capillary 

 lobes. Fruits ovate or oblong. Ribs prominent. 



S8. SISON. (D 2^ Root-leaves 1-pinnatisect into 5-9, oblong leaflets. Stem-leaves reduced 

 to a few sheaths, with few or 0, linear-setaceous lobes. Fruits ovate-twin, ,0015 lone- 

 Ribs filiform, * 



29. FALCARIA. @ 2|! Lower leaves undivided or ternate. Stem-leaves tematelylobed. 

 Fruits oblong-linear. Ribs filiform. 



30. SIUM. If Aquatic or marsh herbs. Leaves pinnatisect into large, oblong-lanceolate 

 lobes. Fruits ovate or oblong. Ribs prominent. 



31. BERULA. If Aquatic or marsh herbs. Leaves pinnatisect into oblong lobes. Fruits 

 ovate, somewhat twin. Ribs filiform. 



32. PIMPINELLA. @ 2]! Leaves undivided, or ternate, or pinnatisect into round, 

 ovate, or oblong leaflets. Fruits ovate or oblong. Ribs nearly obsolete. 



33. SCALIGERIA. (^ Root fusiform or tuberous. Leaves pinnatisect into small, ovate 

 leaflets, or dissected into capillary lobes. Fruits globular-twin. Ribs almost obsolete. 



20. BUPLEVRUM, L. Thorough- Wax. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit laterally flattened or somewhat twin. 

 Stylopodium flat or depressed, entire. Ribs of mericarp 5, equal, sub- 

 ulate, acute, or thickened, or nearly obsolete. Intervals with or with- 

 out vittse. Seed flat or concave within — Herbs or shrubs, with yel- 

 low or yellowish-green flowers, and entire leaves. 



* Leaves, or at least the tipjje?', perfoliate. Involucre 0. A7muals. 



1. B. croceum, Fenzl. .3 to .5, glaucescent, divaricate- 

 corymbose above. Lower leaves oblong, intermediate ovate, upper 

 orMcular, yelloio. Umbel 9-1 2-rayed; bracts of involucel obscurely 3- 

 nerved, the longer as long as flowers, ovate- lanceolate, acuminate, yel- • 

 low; fruit oblong, smooth, prismatic-keeled — Spring — Fields; in- 

 terior plains from Aleppo to Aintab, and northward. 



2. B. protractum, Link, et Hoffm. .3 Fig. 172. 

 to .5, glaucous, diraricately branched /ro??z 5astf. Root- 

 leaves tapering at base, oblong ; stem-leaves oblong, 

 the uppermost ovate. Umbels 2-5-rayed ; bracts of 

 involucel 5-7-nerved, 3-4 tiraes as long asjioioers, ovate- 

 orUcular, mucronate ; fruit ovate, granular in intervals 

 -^Spring — Fields ; common even to subalpine regions. 



Var latifolium. Post, Stem-leaves large, ovate 

 — Beirut. 



3. B. lieteropliyllllin, Link. .05 to .1, Fruiting umbellet 



glaucous, dichotomous from base. Root-leaves linear- ' P^^^'''^'^*""'- 



lanceolate or linear, the upper clasping, auricled to perfoliate, oblong- 

 lanceolate. Umbels 2-3-rayed; bracts of involucre ovate, abruptly 

 acuminate, 5-7-nerved, scarcely longer than angled, granular fruit — 

 Spring — Aleppo, Damascus, Ccelesyria, and south ^^ard and eastward. 

 * * Leaves linear, linear-lanceolate, or lanceolate. Involucel leo.vesmemha- 

 nous, ovate or elliptical-lanceolate, overtopping thefiowers. 



4. B. Odontites, L. © Dibbeiq. .3 to ,8; stem erect, rigid, 

 with numerous, dichotomous branches. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acu- 



