f»68 UMBELLIFER^. (PAKSLEY FAMILY.) 



1. M. graveoletis, M. B. (D .5to 1.5, tomentellous-canescent. 

 Lower leaves pinnate ; leaflets three and a half pairs, oblong-ovate to 

 oblong, sessile, crenate to coarse-dentate, the largest .03 to .04 long. 

 Fruit obovate, retuse, .007 long, the margin broader than seed, the 

 transparent portion broader than the opaque, tumid rim— May — 

 Amanus to Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



Var. bipinnata, Post. Segments of lower leaves more or less 

 pinnatipartite into round-ovate, crenate-dentate leaflets — Marash. 



2. M. iSekakul, Russ. If Seqaqul. .3 to .6, white-pubescent. 

 Leaves triangular in outline, the lower hipinnatiiJartite into oblong seg- 

 ments, obtusely dentate or incised, decurrent at base. Fruits round or 

 obovate, retuse, .01 in diameter, glabrous or nearly so ; margin broad- 

 er than seed, the pellucid part as broad as the thickened border — 

 Spring — Fields ; not rare. 



59. OPOFONAX, Koch. Opoponax. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Fruits ovate, with dilated margin, pellu- 

 cid within, tumid at border. Ribs slender, the lateral remote. Oil- 

 tubes broad, 2-3-1 in intervals — Tall, yellow-flowered perennials. 



O. Syriaca, Boiss. 2]! 1 to 2, glabrous, except a few conical 

 papillsB at petioles and nerves of leaves ; stem veriicillate, thyrsoid- 

 paniculate above. Root-leaves ovate-triangular in outline, .4 to .6 in 

 length, tripinnate into obovate-cuneate, crenate-dentate leaflets, lower 

 border of leaflets decurrent ; the upper leaves small, tripartite, or cu- 

 neate-oblong, undivided. Rays 12-15, short ; bracts of involucre and 

 involucel 3-5, linear-lanceolate, minute ; fruit elliptical, glabrous, 

 the white, tumid margin as broad as intervals ; oil-tubes 1 in each 

 interval, 7-8 at commissure — May and June — Subalpine Lebanon, in 

 Ehedin forest and at Hadeth ; Antilebanon ; Haui an. {Smyrniopsis 

 Syriaca^ Boiss.) 



60. PASTINACA. L. Parsnip. IsLufi'in. 



Calyx -margin obsolete, or minutely denticulate. Fruit flattened, 

 surrounded by a narrow, flattened margin. Ribs slender, the three in- 

 termediate equi-distant, the lateral distant, near margin. Oil-tubes 1, 

 or rarely 2 in intervals, slender — Biennial, rarely perennial herbs, with 

 yellow flowers. 



P. teretiii§cula, Boiss. d) Stem rather terete, striate. Leaves 

 pinnate, glabrescent at upper surface, pubescent or grey-velvety at 

 lower, leaflets large, ovate or ovate-oblong, crenate, the terminal 

 generally tri-lobed. Fruit ovate-elliptical to elliptical, glabrous ; oil- 

 tubes extending almost to the base of the mericarps, the commissural 

 2, thickish — ^ Summer — Hasrtin (Lebanon). 



Trie* IX. CAXJCAIilNEiE. 



61. EXOACONTHA. Fruit oblong. .0015 long. Eryngioid, prickly plants. 



62. ARTEDIA Fruit round, with broad, obovate-spathulate, lobed wings. (Fig. 196.) 



63. ORLA YA. Fruit oblong, .01 to ,015 long j secondary ribs with l-.3rows of triangular- 

 setaceous prickles. (Fig 197.) 



64. DAUCUS. (D Fruit oblong, ,003 to .01 long ; secondary ribs with 1 row of subulate 

 prickles. (Fig, 198.) 



