UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLET FAMILY.) 



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bracts of involucre 1-3, of involucel 3-5, membranous, oblong, acu- 

 minate, ciliate ; fruit oblong, .01 long, muriculate with tiibercles ending 

 in lyristles — April and May — Woods and grassy places ; middle and 

 subalpine Lebanon (Tristram) ; Jebel Qul^b (Hauran). 



2. A. lamprocarpa, Boiss. d) .6 to .8 : stem striate, divari- 

 cately branched above, often inflated below joints. Leaves tender, 

 the lower broad-ovate in outline, 2-3-pinnatisect into long, secondary 

 petioles woolly at base, segments petiolulate, ovate- oblong, obtusely 

 incised-dentate, glabrous except along bristly nerves of lower surface. 

 Umbels 3-8-rayed ; involucre ; bracts of involucel 5, oblong, acumi- 

 nate, woolly at margin ; fruit oblong -tapering, shining .01 long, styles 

 scarcely longer than diverging stylopodia — April and May — Open 

 woods ; middle mountain zone, throughout. 



3. A. Tulg'ari§, Pers. © .5 ; stem weak, erect or ascending, 

 glabrous. Leaves tender, hirtulous along nerves of lower surface, 

 3-pinnatisect into ovate, crowded, minute, mucronate lobes. Umbels 

 short-peduncled, nearly opposite the leaves, with 3-6, slender rays ; 

 bracts of involucel 3-4, lanceolate, ciliate; fruits .003 long, ovate, thickly 

 beset with short, incurved, conical, tohite pricMes ; beaTc elongated ; stigmas 



- Spring — Eastward from Aintab. 



3§. SCANDIX, L. ScANDix. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit laterally compressed, long-beaked. 

 Ribs of mericarps 5, obtuse. 



equal, the lateral at margin. 

 Oil-tubes 1 in each interval, 

 obscure. Inner face of albu- 

 men deeply hollowed out — 

 Annual, white-flowered herbs, 

 leaves 2-3-pinnatisect into lin- 

 ear-subulate or capillary lobes. 



* Beah of fruit more or less 

 dor sally flattened. 



t Fruits pedicelled. 



1. S. Pecteii-Veiieri§, 



L. .3 to .5. Rays 2-3, at 

 length thickened ; bracts of 

 involucel ovate-oblong, entire 

 or 2-3-fid at apex ; beak 3-4 

 times as long as mericarps ; 

 styles 2-3 times as long as sty- 

 lopodia — Spring — Fields ; 

 common, 



Yar. brevirostris, Boiss. 

 Beak twice to twice and a half 

 as long as fruit — Beirut ; Le- 

 banon ; Antilebauon. 



Var. loiigistyla, Post. 



Styles several times as long as 

 stylopodia — Beirilt. 



Fig. 184. 



Fruiting umbellet of 3. Pecten-Venerig. 



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