UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



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minal often trifid ; petioles of upper leaves scarious-winged, short. 

 Lateral umbels often sterile. Involucre almost 0. Bracts of involucel 

 awl-shaped. Rays 6-12. Stylopodium tapering into a style nearly as 

 long as the breadth of the mericarp — April and May — Open woods; 

 principally in middle and subalpine region of mountains. 



16. HIPPOMARATHRUM, Link. Hippomarathrum. 



Calyx-teeth 5, prominent. Fruit broader than long, twin, flattened 

 laterally, crowned with a broad, cup-shaped disk, with the minute 

 stylopodia in the centre. Ribs of mericarp 5, thick, prominent, tuber- 

 cled or crested. Pericarp crustaceous. Inner face of albumen concave, 

 everywhere covered by numerous, slender vittse — Perennial, much 

 branched herbs, with yellow flowers, and leaves dissected into linear- 

 awl-shaped, rigid lobes. 



1. H. crigpum, Rent. 21 .5 to .8, gJabrescent, stem stout, 

 angled-striate, verticillate. Radical leaves petioled, .3 to .4 broad, 

 those of stem sessile. ZPmbels 7-12-ra'i/ed, rays yig 168. 



.03 long ; bracts of involucre and involucel 

 lanceolate-linear, acuminate; fruit .005 long, 

 .006 broad, beset with prominent, curved, scale- 

 like warts — July — Nusairy Mountains, and 

 northward. 



2. H. Boissieri, Rent, et Haussk. 21 

 .5 to .8, sparingly hispidulous; stem striate, 

 verticillate. Radical leaves petioled, .3 to .4 

 broad, those of stem smaller, sessile. Umbels 

 4-5-rayed, rays. 015 to .025 long, bracts of in- 

 volucre and involucel linear-lanceolate: fruit 



.005 long, .006 broad, 

 wavy, scale-like warts - 

 pine regions. 



beset with transverse, Umbellet of H. Boissien. 

 Summer — Common ; except in Ghor and al- 



17. CACHRYS, L. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Disk broad, generally with wavy margin. 

 Fruit oblong or ovate, slightly flattened laterally, with turgid, spongy 

 pericarp. Ribs of mericarp 5, obsolete, or some- -p -j gn 



what prominent. Oil-tubes numerous, adherent 

 to the seed along with the thin endocarp. Inner 

 face of albumen deeply grooved with involute 

 margins — Perennial herbs, with yellow flowers, 

 and leaves dissected into linear or capillary 

 lobes. 



C. goiiiocarpa, Boiss. 2t .6 to 1, gla- 

 brous ; stem stout, corymbose. Leaves triangular- 

 ovate, the lower .5 long and broad. Rays of 

 fruiting umbel 10-15, .15 long; bracts of involu- 

 cre and involucel linear-setaceous ; fruit reddish, 

 shorter than pedicel, .02 long, .015 to .018 broad, 

 more or less obtusely pentagonal. 



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Fruit of C, goniocarpa. 



