UMBELLIPER/E. (PAHSLEY FAMILY.) 



rays, the longest .02 long, contracted in Fig. 189. 



/rwiY; mericarps elliptical, .005 long, .003 

 broad, with flat disk, a little broader tlian 

 pithy margin — August — Rocky hillside; 

 Kapuchara, near Marash. 



5. J. juncea, Boiss. 2^ 1 to 3 ; 

 stem naked, alternately stiff-branched 

 above. Leaves mostly radical, .06 to .2 

 long, oblong in outline, bipinnatisect, tlie 

 segments . 004 to .OOS long, pinnatipa7'tite into 

 oblong -acuminate lobules, .002 to. 003 long, 



with somewhat revolute margins; stem- Fruitinii .mbelof 



leaves smaller, the upper reduced to linear, •'• ^'"'■^en. 



acuminate bracts. Umbels long-peduncled, with 6-8 unequal rays, 

 involuccl of 5-7, acumin-ite bracts; fruit * * — July and August — 

 Sterile fields; betAveen Rasheyah and the base of Hermou; southern 

 part of Nusairy Mountains. 



6, J. aurea, Boiss. et Bal. If .05 to .2 ; root-stock woody, 

 branching near surface into numerous, short, tortuous, transversely striate 

 stems, scarcely rising above the soil, surmounted by a rosette of spread- 

 ing, obh)ng leaves, ,02 to .04 long, pinnatisect into two and a half to 

 four and a half pairs of .005 long, round-ovate segments, dissected into 

 ,002 long, oblong, acute, simple or 2-3-fid lobes. Flowering stems .1 

 to ,15 long, simple or bifid above ; umbels with 3-4 unequal rays, the 

 longest .015 long ; bracts of involucel 5-0, linear, as long as flowers ; 

 fruits oblong, ,004 long, .002 broad ; disk^;?^^ times as broad as mar- 

 gin — August and September — Top of Jebel Sunnin. 



50. PEUCEDAj^Uill, L. Peucedanum. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Ctdyx-teeth obsolete, or more or less 

 prominent. Fruit flattened or lenticular at back, surrounded by a flat- 

 tened, dilated margin. The three intermediate ribs filiform, the later- 

 al near or at the margin. Oil-tubes solitary or 2-3 in intervals — Per- 

 ennial herbs, with (in ours) yellow flowers, and involucre or many- 

 leaved. 



1. P. Riitlienicum, M. B. 1 to 2 ; stem stout, paniculate. 

 Leaves 3-5, ternately divided, the primary, secondary, tertiary, and qua- 

 ternary petioles long, naked, the latter ending in linear-lanceolate to 

 linear, rigid, simi)le or 2-o-fid lobes, .02 to .00 long. Umbels 5-13-ray- 

 ed ; bracts of involucre and involucel subulate, the former caducous ; 

 pedicel slender, about as long as fiuit ; mericarps elliptical to ovate, 

 with margin half as broad as seed ; ribs prominent — September — 

 Middle zone of mountain north of 'Othmaniyeh (Amanus). 



2. P. dcpauperatum. Boiss. et Bal. 21 .6 to .8, glaucous; 

 stems stifl:, dichotomous, naked above. Root-leaves .2 long, oblong- 

 lanceolate in outline, 1-2-pinnatisect into two and a half pairs of ob- 

 lanceolatc to linear-lanceolate, or cuneate-oblong, 3-5-lobed segments; 

 upper reduced to narrow, linear-caudate bracts. Rays 2-5, unequal, 

 contracted in fruit, umbels forming a narrow^ raceme-like panicle ; invol- 

 ucre ; bracts of involucel minute, oblong; umbellets 3-5-flowered; 



