UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 333 



minute — August and September — Dry fields after the harvest ; Aintali 

 to Marash, and northward. 



7. PYCMOCYCLA, L. Pycnocycla. 



Cah'x of all the flowers 5-dentate. Fruit cylindrical or oblong- 

 subterete, surrounded by the pedicels of the sterile flowers. Pericarp 

 membranous. Ribs obsolete. Albumen curved-involute — Shrubby 

 perennials, with white, hirsute flowers, and hirsute fruit. 



P. tomentosa, Dec. 2^ .6 to .7, glaucescent ; stem striate, 

 erect, sparingly branched. Leaves puberulent, the lowest long-petioled, 

 limb .02 to .05 long, pinnatisect, with 2-3-pairsof.005 to .007 long, ob- 

 long, subcoriaceous, pinnatilobuled or incised, acute, entire, or denti- 

 culate lobes ; upper leaves reduced to a linear sheath. Umbels long- 

 peduncled, loooUy, with many short rays ; leaves of involucre and invol- 

 ucel lanceolate, reflexed, the latter unequal, pedicels of sterile flowers 

 9-10, as long as woolly, cylindrical-tapering fruit ; calyx-teeth short- 

 subulate — May — Eocks ; Sinai ; Wadi Ghurundul, near Dead Sea. 



Tribe TV, SMYRNE^. 



* Pericarp not hard and corky, ribs filiform. 



8. ASTOMA. 2X Fruits twin, .001 broad. Root globular. (Fig 164.) 



9. CORIANDRUM. © Fruits ovate-spherical, .0025 to.003 broad j primary ribs 5, wavy, 

 secondary 4, prominent, 



10. BIFORA. © Fruits twin, .006 broad, .003 long ; all the ribs inconspicuous. (Fig 165.) 



11. CONIUM. (D Fruits ovate, .002 broad, with 5, prominent ribs. (Fig 163.) 



12. PHVSOSPERMUM, 21 Fruits twin, .002 broad, with 5, inconspicuous ribs. Stem tall, 

 leafless, scape like, 



13. SMYRNIUM. (^ Fruits twin, ,002 to .008 broad, with inconspicuous ribs. Stem leafy 

 to top. (Fig, 166.) 



14. SMYRNIOPSIS. (D Fruits prismatic, 5-angIed, with prominent ribs. Stem leafy to top. 



* * Pericarp corky, or crustaceous, or tubercled ; ribs (^except Cachrys) , prominent. 



15. LECOKIA. 2|! Flowers white. Fruits ovate, .01 long, corky, echinate. Leaflets large, 

 ovate. (Fig, 167.) 



16. HIPPOMARATHRUM. 21 Flowersyellow. Fruits twin, .005 long, ,008 broad, crowned 

 by a disk; ribs tubercled. (Fig. 168.) Leaves dissected into awl-shaped, or filiform lobe.«, 



17. CACHRYS, 21 Fruits oblcng, .015 long, spongy ; ribs obsolete (Fig. 169), Leaves dis- 

 sected into filiform lobes. 



18. PRANGOS. If Fruits oblong, .01 to .02 long, spongy; ribs wmged (Fig, 170.) Leaves 

 dissected into filiform lobes. 



19. COLLADONIA. 21 Fruits oblong-club-shaped (Fig. 171). Leaflets large, oblong, 



8. ASTOMA, D.C. Astoma. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Fruit flattened laterally, twin. Stylopo- 

 dium disk-like, situated in the sinus between the mericarps. Mericarps 

 globular, flattened, with indistinct, filiform ribs and intervals. Vitta 

 2 in intervals. Commissure constricted. Albumen grooved on its in- 

 ner face — Herbs v.ith aspect of Bunium and Scaligeria Cretica. 



