340 UMBELLIFEK.E. (PAESLEY FAMILY.) 



* * Petals notched or 2-lobed, with strap-shaped, infiexed tip, white or yellowish. 



26. AM MI. (^ Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect, or dissected into capillary lobes, ovate or oblong. 

 Ribs filiform. 



27. CARUM. @ 2|[ Root fusiform or tuberous. Leaves dissected into linear or capillary 

 lobes. Fruits ovuto or oblong. Ribs prominent. 



28. SISON, (2) IT Root-leaves 1-pinnatisect into 5-9, oblong leaflets. Stem-leaves reduced 

 to a few sheaths, with few or 0, linear-setaceous lobes. Fruits ovate-twin, .0015 long. 

 Ribs filiform, 



29. FALCARIA. (g) 1^ Lower leaves undivided or ternate. Stem-leaves ternately lobed. 

 Fruits oblong-linear. Ribs filiform. 



30. SIUM. 2J! Aquatic or marsh herbs. Leaves pinnatisect into large, oblong-lanceolate 

 lobes. Fruits ovate or oblong. Ribs prominent. 



31. BERULA. If Aquatic or marsh herbs. Leaves pinnatisect into oblong lobes. Fruits 

 ovate, somewhat twin. Ribs filiform. 



32. PIM PINELLA. © (f) IT Leaves undivided, or temate, or pinnatisect into round, 

 ovate, or oblong leaflets. Fruits ovate or oblong. Ribs nearly obsolete. 



33. SCALIGERIA. @ Root fusiform or tuberous. Leaves pinnatisect into small, ovate 

 leaflets, or dissected into capillary lobes. Fruits globular-twin. Ribs almost obsolete. 



20. BUPLEVRUM, L. Thorough-Wax. 



Calyx-teetli obsolete. Fruit laterally flattened or somewhat twin. 

 Stylopodium flat or depressed, entire. Ribs of mericarp 5, equal, sub- 

 ulate, acute, or thickened, or nearly obsolete. Intervals with or with- 

 out vittse. Seed flat or concave within — Herbs or shrubs, with yel- 

 low or yellowish-green flowers, and entire leaves. 



* Leaves, or at least the up2oer, perfoliate. Involucre 0. Annuals. 



1. B. croceum, Fenzl. .3 to .5, glaucescent, divai-icate- 

 corymbose above. Lower leaves oblong, intermediate ovate, upper 

 orhicular, yellow. Umbel 9-12-rayed; bracts of iuvolucel obscurely 3- 

 nerved, the longer as long as flowers, ovate- lanceolate, acuminate, yel- 

 low; fruit oblong, smooth, prismatic-keeled — Spring — Fields; in- 

 terior plains from Aleppo to Aintab, and northward. 



2. B. protractum, Link, et Hoffm. .3 Fig. 173. 

 to .5, glaucous, divaricately branched from base. Root- 

 leaves tapering at base, oblong ; stem-leaves oblong, 

 the uppermost ovate. Umbels 2-5-rayed ; bracts of 

 involucel 5-7-nerved, 3-4 times as long asfloioers, ovate- 

 orMcular, mucronate ; fruit ovate, granular in intervals 

 — Spring — Fields ; common even to subalpine regions. 



Var latifolium, Post. Stem-leaves large, ovate 

 — Beirut. 



3. B. licteropliylliini, Link. .05 to .1, ^1%%,^^^^^^'^' 

 glaucous, dichotomous from base. Root-leaves linear- 

 lanceolate or linear, the upper clasping, auricled to perfoliate, oblong- 

 lanceolate. Umbels 2-3-rayed; bracts of involucre ovate, abruptly 

 acuminate, 5-7-nerved, scarcely longer than angled, granular fruit — 

 Spring — Aleppo, Damascus, Coelesyria, and south wai-d and eastward. 



* * Leaves linear, linear-lanceolate, or lanceolate. Involucel leaves membra- 

 nous, ovate or elliptical-lanceolate, overtopping thefloicers. 



4. B. Odontites, L. Diljbeiq. .3 to .8; stem erect, rigid, 

 with numerous, dichotomous branches. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acu- 



