UMBELLIFER^. (PAKSLEY FAMILY.) 347 



ered umbejlet ; involucre ; bracts of involucel few, soon deciduous, 

 short, subulate ; fruit oblong, truncate, .004 long, .0015 broad, short- 

 er than pedicel ; styles deflexed, a little longer than the low, conical 

 stylopodia — June — Amanus, near Beilan. 



5. C ferulaefoliuin, Desf. 1^ .1 to .5; stem divaricate from 

 base, somewhat angular. Root- leaves triangular in outline, tripinnati- 

 sect into linear, obtuse lobes. Rays of umbel stout, 5-8, twice to three 

 times as long as diameter of fruiting umbellet ; bracts of involucre and 

 involucel few, short, lanceolate-acuminate, white-margined ; fruiting 

 pedicels thick, stellately spreading, usually shorter than cylindrical- 

 prismatic, .004 to .005 long, .001 broad, somewhat incurved fruits ; 

 styles deflexed, a little longer than truncate-cylindrical, cup-shaped sty- 

 lopodia — April and May — Fields' ; common. 



Var. brachycarpum, Boiss. A mountain form, with depau- 

 perated leaves, and bracts, and shorter fruits. 



1 1 Intervals with 2-3 oil-tubes. 



6. O. Pestalozzae, Boiss. If .1 to .3, divaricate from base, 

 with wavy branches. Leaves ovate in outline, bipinnatisect into stiff, 

 acutish, fleshy lobes, the upper reduced to few lobes, or simple. Umbels 

 with 5-7, rather long rays ; involucre of 1, short bract, or ; bracts of 

 involucel 5-7, lanceolate, white-margined ; pedicels equalling or exceed- 

 ing in length the oUong fruit ; ribs filiform, white ; styles deflexed, 

 longer than flattened stylopodia — Summer — Alpine regions of Le- 

 banon and Antilebanon. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Fruit ovate, laterally flattened, twin. Ribs 

 of mericarps 5, filiform, equal, the lateral at margin. Stylopodia conical, 

 with entire margin. Oil-tubes 1 in each interval, short, broad, some- 

 what club-shaped. Carpophore 3-partite. Inner face of albumen flattish 

 — Biennial herbs, with small, white flowers. 



S. exaltatum, Bosss. (D 1 to 2.5 ; stem much branched, dicho- 

 tomous, nearly naked. Root-leaves soon marcescent, pinnatisect into 

 8-10 pairs of ovate to oblong, lobcd or parted leaflets, with mucronate 

 teeth, the longest leaflets about . 02 long, stem-leaves reduced to a few 

 linear lobes, or a sheathing petiole. Umbels small, trichotomously 

 disposed, with unequal peduncles, and 5-7, unequal rays ; bracts of 

 involucre and involucel 5-6, lanceolate ; pedicels capillary, nearly 

 equal, about as long as .0015 long, ovate, glabrous fruit ; styles as long 

 as depressed stylopodia — September and October — Thickets ; mid- 

 regions of Lebanon. 



29. FAL.CARIA, Host. Falcaria. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-toothed. Fruit oblong-linear, 

 flattened laterally. Ribs of mericarps 5, filiform, the lateral at margin. 

 Oil-tubes 1 in each interval. Stylopodia small, implanted on a dilated 

 disk. Carpophore free, bifid. Inner face of albumen flattish — Gla- 

 brous, biennial or perennial herbs, with white flowers. 



F. Rivini, Host. (D or 2f .5tol, corymbose branched. Leaves 

 somewhat coriaceous, the radical simple or ternate ; the middle divi- 

 sion trifid, and the lateral 2-3-fid, with linear-lanceolate, acutely serru 



