332 UMBELLIFER^. (PAKSLET FAMILY.) 



fruit ovate-oblong — May — Kocky and clayey fields ; Damascus to 

 Aleppo, Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



4. SANlCULiA, L. Sanicle. Black Snake-Root. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx-teeth nearly herbaceous. Petals 

 erect, conuivent, obovate, with slender tip. Fruit ovate-globular, some- 

 what flattened laterally, densely covered with hooked prickles. Mericarps 

 many-vittate ; ribs obsolete. Carpophore — Herbs, with few -rayed 

 umbels, and capitate umbellets, the hermaphrodite flowers nearly ses- 

 sile, the staminate pedicelled. 



S. Eiiropaea, L. If .3 to .8, stem scape-like, 1-0-leaved. Root- 

 leaves long-petioled, palmatifid or parted, with obovate-cuneate, trifid, 

 mucronate-serrate segments ; stem-leaves much smaller, 3-5-palmati]Dar- 

 tite, with obovate to lenticular^ dentate segments. Umbels usually 

 compound. Involucel-leaves numerous, linear-aristate, shorter than 

 head — Summer — Woods ; Amanus, ancl northward. 



5. L.AOCECIA, L. Lagcecia. 



Calyx-lobes large, pectinate. Petals long, with obtuse grooved 

 tip, notched at apex, the margins ending in two, long, straight, bristles, 

 Stylopodium and style by abortion 1. Mericarps by abortion 1, ovoid, 

 crowned by the cah^x ; the ri^ s filiform, hardly visible ; vittos ; seeds 

 nearly terete, with flat, internal surface — Annual herbs, with simple, 

 globular, many-flowered umbels, and 1 -flowered umbellets. 



L<. cuiiiiiioicles, L. © .2 to .5, glabrous; stem erect, wavy, 

 sparingly leafy. Leaves linear in outline, pinnatisect, with minute, ses- 

 sile, ovate, alternate leaflets, cut into oblong, aristate lobes. Umbels 

 nodding before flowering ; involucre-leaves pinnatipartite into long- 

 aristate lobes ; involucel-leaves 4-5, pectinate ; flower pedicelled with- 

 in involucel ; seed setulose — Sf/ring — Dry fields; common every- 

 where. 



Tribe III. EOHINOPHOREi^. 



6. ECHINOPHORA. Receptacle growing, enclosing the ba«e of the fruit. Vittae solitary, 



7. P YCNOCYCLA. Receptacle not growing. VittBE 2-3 in intervals, 



6. ECHIXOPHORA, L. Echinophoea. 



Calyx-teeth acute, those of ray flowers unequal, often 0. Fruit ob- 

 long-pyramidal, somewhat terete. Stylopodium conical, entire. Peri- 

 carp membranous. Ribs obsolete. Albumen hollow on its inner face 

 — Spinescent or unarmed herbs, with white or yellowish flowers ; one 

 mericarp sometimes abortive ; fruit at maturity enclosed in the 

 indurated involucel and staminate peclirels and calyces. 



E. Sibtiiorpiana, Guss. If .4 to .5, puberulent ; stem striate, 

 corymbose many-branched. Root-leaves ovate to oblong in outline, 3- 

 pinnatisect, segments cuneate-oblong, cleft to or beyond middle into 3- 

 7, oblong, callous-tipped teeth, the upper piimatisect into short, 2-3- 

 toothed lobes, or undivided. Involucre-leaves short-lanceolate, those 

 of involucel triangular-lanceolate, at length indurated, spreading-re- 

 flexed ; outer calvx-teeth of staminate flowers oblong-lanceolate, inner 



