180. 



'iSO UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



Sect. II. Tragoselinum. Fruits glabrous. 



8. P. anthriscoides, Boiss. 2^ .6 to 1 ; root thick, fusiform ; 

 stem corymbose above. Root-leaves .5 long and broad, long-petioled, 

 triangular, bipinnatisect into oblong, obtuse leaflets, .02 to .03 long, 

 obtusely lobed and dentate; leaflets of stem-leaves smaller, ovate to lan- 

 ceolate, incised-dentate topinnatifld. Umbels with 12-15, nearly equal, 

 .03 to .05 long rays ; bracts of involucre and involucel few, linear-lanceo- 

 late; fruits ovate-oblong, .004 long, with filiform ribs — Summer — Wet 

 places ; alpine and subalpine Lebanon and Coelesyria to Amanus, and 

 northward. 



33. ISCALIOERIA, D.C. Scaligeria. 



Margin of calyx obsolete. Fruit laterally flattened, globular, some- 

 what twin. Ribs of mericarps generally obsolete ; oil-tubes 2-3 in in- 

 tervals, sometimes coalesced into 1. Commissure with 2 oil-tubes. In- 

 ner face of albumen somewhat concave, 2-grooved — Biennial herbs 

 with white flowers and minute fruits, with aspect of Pimpinella. 



1. S. Cretica, Urv. 2^ or (2) .6 to 1, glabrous ; Fig. 

 root fusiform, usually simple ; stem zigzag, dichoto- 

 mously branched. Root-leaves triangular in outline, 

 somewhat ternately 2-o-pinnatipartite into ovate, den- 

 tate leaflets ; stem-leaves with /(g?^;, linear lobes, the up- 

 permost reduced to caudate petioles. Rays of umbel 

 5-10, in flower .02 to .03 long, in fruit longer, filiform ; 

 involucre of 1, setiform bract, orO; involucel of 1-3, lin- 

 ear bracts ; fruit .002 in diameter — May and June — 

 Rocky places and thickets ; along coast and lower zone pruiting'umbeilet 

 of mountains to 1000 m. of s. Cretica. 



2. S. meifolia, Fenzl. (D .6 to 1, glabrous ; root fusiform, 

 simple or 2-3 lobed ; stem leafy below, nearly naked above, paniculate, 

 dichotomously-branched above ; branches filiform. Leaves oblong- 

 rhombic in outline, tripinnatisect into oblong, sessile segments, which 

 are dissected into setaceous lobes ; upper leaves reduced to sheaths. 

 Rays of umbel 3-5, unequal, filiform ; bracts of involucre and involucel 

 4-5, short-lanceolate, s carious ; fruit .001 in diameter — June and 

 July — Thickets and chalky rotks ; Coelesyria, Antilebanon, Aintab, and 

 northward and eastward. 



3. S. capillifolia, Post. (Boiss. 

 Supplement. Fl. Or. p. 255.) (D .6 to 

 1 ; root small, globular ; stem slender, 

 loosely paniculate-branched above. 



Fig. 181. 



Root-leaves 



stem-leaves ovate in 



outline, dissected into setaceous lobes. 

 Umbels short, 2-4-rayed ; bracts of in- 

 volucre and involucel subulate, acute, 

 the latter nearly as long as flowers ; 

 pedicels scarcely as long as .002 long, 

 shining fruits — August and September 

 — Woods and thickets ; Amanus to 

 Akherdagh. A plant with aspect of 

 Carum setaceum, Schrenck = Bunium ca- 

 pillifolium, Kar. et Kir. 



Fruiting umbels of S. capillifolia, 



