352 



UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



eastern slope of Kai-Pok- 

 Dagh, Amanus, just below 

 the summit. 



3. €. Liibanoticum, 



Boiss. et Ky. If .5 to 1 ; 

 stem stout, erect, branching 

 above. Leaves hiternatkect 

 into oblong, .06 to .08 long, 

 crenate-dentate leaflets, the 

 upper divided into a few, 

 lanceolate, dentate leaflets. 

 Umbels with 12-20 rays ; 

 bracts of involucre and in- 

 volucel short, membranous, 

 acuminate; fruits linear, .012 

 long ; styles rigid, divergent, 

 3-4 times as long as conical 

 stylopodia — September — 

 Subalpine Lebanon and Ama- 



FiG. 182. 



Fruiting umbel of O. Libanoticum. 



36. PHYSOCAUL.OS, Tausch. Physocaulos. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit laterally compressed, linear-oblong. 

 Ribs of mericarps 5, obtuse, the lateral at margin ; intervals 1-vittate. 

 Stigmata sessile at apex of conical stylo- p^^^ -^gg^ 



podia. Carpophore entire. Inner face 

 of albumen deeply grooved — Annual herbs, 

 with minute, white flowers. 



P. nodosus, L. .8tol, strigose- 

 hirsute ; stem stout, inflated under joints. 

 Leaves hirsute, ternately bipinnatisect into 

 ovate-cuneate, obtuse, incised or dentate 

 segments. Rays of umbel 2-3, stiff ; bracts 

 of involucre 1 or 0, of involucel 5-6, all lin- 

 ear, acuminate ; fruits .01 long, mostly 

 longer than pedicel, tubercled-hristly — 

 April and May — Rocky and shady places 

 in middle and upper mountain zones, and 

 interior plateaus. 



Fruiting umbel of P. nodosus. 



37. AlVTHRISCUS, Hoffm. Anthriscus. 



Calyx teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-oblong to oblong, generally 

 tapering at apex. Ribs of mericarps 5, prominent at apex, obsolete 

 below. Intervals with 1, slender, generally inconspicuous oil-tube. 

 Stylopodia conical, margined. Inner face of albumen deeply hollowed 

 out — Perennial or monocarpic, white -flowered herbs. 



1. A. neniorosa, MB. 2^ 1 ; stem grooved, stout, retrorsely 

 hairy below, corymbose above. Lower leaves large, triangular in out- 

 line, .3 to .4 broad and long, 3-4-pinnatisect into ovate-oblong, incised 

 or toothed segments ; upper gradually diminishing. Umbels 7- 1 0-ray ed ; 



