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UMBELLIFER-^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



superficial. Perennial, often tall, yellow-flowered herbs, with variously 

 decompound leaves — Distinguished from Ferula by the persistent in- 

 volucre, the more or less long-peduncled central umbel, the numerous 

 oil-tubes, and prominent ribs, as well as by general habit. 



* Oil-tubes nearly equal. Petioles of secondary divisions furnisJied with 

 a multijid segment at the point of insertion into the primary midrib. 



t Dorsal ribs fllijorm. 



1. F. pauciradiata, Boiss. et Held. % 1 to 2, glabrous, glau- 

 cescent ; stem terete, nearly naked. Leaves mostly radical, triangular 

 in outline, ternately 2-pinnatisect into ovate segments .02 long, which 

 are dissected into oblong-linear, rigid, mucronate, .002 to .015 long 

 lobes ; secondary petioles long. Umbels long-peduncled, 3-7-rayed, 

 rays shorter than diameter of fruiting umbellet ; bracts of involucre and 

 involucel oblong-triangular ; pedicels much shorter than fruit ; meri- 

 carps elliptical, .008 long, .003 broad, margin one-fourth as broad as 

 seed ; 7'ibs not prominent — June and July — Shady places ; Aleih (Mt. 

 Lebanon), Amanus, Cassius, Aintab, and northward. 



1 1 Dorsal ribs thick, prominent or narrow-winged, 



2. F. Cassia, Boiss. If .6 to 1, glabrous ; stem terete, rather 

 slender, corymbose above. Lower leaves oblong-lanceolate in outline, 

 2-3-pinnatisect, secondary or tertiary divisions linear in outline, segments 

 ovate, somewhat distant, .004 long, dissected into numerous, .002 

 long, subulatelobes ; upper reduced to .015 long, oblong sheaths, with 

 few linear lobes or 0. Umbels 6-9-rayed ; bracts of involucre and 

 involucel oblong, acute ; mericarps elliptical, .01 long, .006 broad, 

 lons:er than pedicel ; margin icady, one-third as broad as seed ; ribs 

 narrow-winged — April to June — Woods at base of Cassius and Ama- 

 nus to Marash, and northward. 



3. F. Amani, Post. (Sup- Fig. 185. 

 plement. Fl. Or. Boiss. p. 264). 

 .8 to 1.5 ; stem terete, rather 

 slender, leafy to base of inforescence, 

 paniculate-corymbose above. Root- 

 leaves numerous, oblong in out- 

 line, 2-3-pinnatipartite into crowd- 

 ed, capz7Zar?/, .005 to .015 long lobes; 

 stem-leaves reduced to linear-lanceo- 

 late sheaths, from the axils of which 

 arise small leaves, dissected into .002 

 to .008 long, filiform lobes. Rays 2- 

 7, .015 to .03 long ; bracts of in- 

 volucre and involucel oblong- 

 triangular, few ; mericarps .008 

 long, .005 broad, ovate, longer > Fruiting umbel of F.Ama«i. 

 than pedicel ; ribs narrow-winged ; margin half as broad as seed — 

 July — Woods ; middle zone of Cassius, Amanus, and Akherdagh. 



4. F. Syriaca, Boiss. 2]! 1 to 2, glabrous, glaucescent ; stem 

 nearly naked above. Lower leaves ovate-oblong in outline, 2-3-pinnati- 

 partite, segments ovate, pinnate or fan-shaped, dissected into flat, 

 oblong, .002 to .01 long, .002 broad lobes, with revolute margins, the 

 primary and secondary divisions long-petiolulate. Umbels long peduu- 



