UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 351 



Tries VL SCANDICINE^. 



* Calyx teeth long, 



34. GRAMMOSCIADIUM. If Fruit elliptical-linear. Styles elongated. 



* * Calyx-teeth obsolete. 



35. CH-(EROPHYLLUM. (f) 2( Fruit linear or oblong. Styles longer than stylopodia, 



36. PHYSOCAULOS. Fruit linear-oblong. Styles 0. Joints of stem tumid. 



37. AWTHRISCUS^ @ Fruit oblong to ovate-oblong, usually tapering. Styles elongated. 



38. SCANDIX. Fruit long-beaked. Styles longer than stylopodia. 



34. ORAHMOISCIADIlJiri, D.C. Grammosciadium. 



Calyx-teeth elongated, at length rigid. Fruit linear, cylindrical- 

 prismatic, crowned by the calyx-teeth, the conical stylopodia ending in 

 straight, divergent, tapering styles. Ribs of mericarp 5, prominent, 

 pithy, the lateral at margin, sometimes expanded. Inner face of albu- 

 men concave — Perennial, white-flowered herbs, with dissected leaves, 

 and many-fid bracts of involucre. 



0. IIau§sknechtii, Boiss. If .3; stem slender, sparingly corym- 

 bose above. Leaves .06 to .08 long, .003 broad, pinnatisect into mi- 

 nute, somewhat distant segments, dissected into very short, setaceous, 

 mucronate lobules. Umbels 5-9-rayed ; fruit short-pedicelled, ellipti- 

 cal-linear, .01 long, .002 broad, tapering at base and apex, the lateral 

 ribs sometimes winged ; styles shorter than thickened stylopodia — 

 Summer — Grassy places ; fSofdagh (Amanus). 



35. CHiGROPHYI.L.1J]fI, L. Chervil. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit laterally flattened, linear, rarely ob- 

 long. Ribs of mericarp 5, obtuse, equal, the lateral at margin, the 

 intervals groove-like, with 1 oil-tube. Styles elongated. Carpophore 

 bifid or bipartite. Albumen deeply grooved along inner face — Bien- 

 nial or perennial herbs, with white or yellowish flowers, sometimes 

 polygamous. 



* Biennials. 



1. C. Syriacum, Hempr. et Ehr. (D .3, corymbose above, 

 minutely white-bristly, root tuberous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate in 

 outline, bipinnatisect into small, ovate segments, parted into minute, 

 ovate-oblong lohules. Rays of umbel 7-9, long, unequal, curved ; bracts 

 of involucre and involucel ciliate, membranous-margined ; fruit .013 

 long, hirsute, one-third as long as thickened pedicel ; stylopodia depres- 

 sed-conical, tapering into rigid, divergent styles, four times their length 

 — Summer — Jisr-el-Hajar, Lebanon. 



* * Perennials. 



2. C oligoearpum, Post. 2f .5 to .7; stems ?zal^«6?, jwnc|/br77z, 

 dichotomously branched. Root-leaves with dilated petiole, ternatisect 

 into short, filiform lobes ; stem-leaves reduced to a linear or awl-shaped 

 petiole. Umbels short-peduncled, loosely racemed along the slender 

 branches, with 3-4 short rays ; bracts of involucre and involucel mem- 

 branous, minute ; umbellets 5-6-flowered, the central fiower only fertile ; 

 fruit club-shaped to linear-cylindrical, often incurved, .015 long ; styles 

 deflexed, longer than narrow stylopodia — August — Pine woods on 



