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UMBELLIFER-^. (PARSLEY PAMFLY.) 



fruit oUong-elUptical, .01 long, .004 broad, with margin as broad as 

 interval; ribs filiform, prominent — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon. 

 Antilebanon, Araanus, Akherdagh, and northward. 



Fig. 190. 



Fruiting umbel of P. depauperatum. 



Var alpinum, Boiss. .1 to .3. Segments of leaves much smaller; 

 fruits .006 long, .003 broad — Alpine regions. 



Var. ellipticuisi, Post. As in var, alpinum, Boiss., but the 

 leaflets elliptical to obovate — Berytdagh. 



51. ANETHU]?!, L. Dill. SMUth. 

 Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit lenticular, surrounded by a dilated, 

 flattened margin. Ribs filiform, the three intermediate acutely keeled, 

 the lateral confluent with margin. Oil-tubes as broad as intervals, 1 in 

 rach — Tall herbs, with dissected leaves, and yellow flowers. 



A. graveolens, L. © .3 to .5, glabrous Leaves bipinnatisect 

 into long, setaceous lobes. Umbels many-rayed ; involucre and 

 involucel ; fruit elliptical — Spring — Plain of Sharon (Tristram). 



52. KRUBERA, Hoffm. Krubera. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Fruit lenticular. Ribs of mericarps 5, thick, 

 prominent, the dorsal keeled, the lateral corky, transversely wrinkled, 



forming an elevated margin. Oil-tubes 

 almort obsolete, under ribs. Carpophore 

 bipartite. Inner face of albumen flat — 

 Annuals, with minute, white flowers. 



K. peregriiia, L. © .3 to .4, gla- 

 brous, dichotomously branched. Leaves o- 

 vate to oblong in outline, 2-4-pinDatisect 

 into short, linear, crowded, entire, or 2-3-fid 

 lobes. Peduncles and rays 3-6, the latter 

 shorter than the diameter of the fruiting 

 umbellets ; pedicels much shorter than .005 

 long, .003 broad fruits —March to May — 

 Rich fields ; coast and interior plains. 



Fig. 191. 



Upper leaves, and small Imif.iiu 

 umbel of K, peregrina. 



53. TORDYLirM, L. Tordylium. 



Calyx-teeth more or less conspicuous, often ii-regularly elongated. 

 Fruit surrounded by a broad, thickened, wrinkled, pithy margin. Ribs 

 slender, filiform. Oil-tubes filiform, solitary in intervals, rarely numer- 

 ous — Annual, hairy herbs. 



