376 UMBELLIFEKiE. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



T. latifolia, L. .3 to .4, dichoto- Fig. 202. 



mously branched. Leaves ovate in outline, 

 1-2-pinnatisect into oblong, incised-serrate 

 segments. Rays 2-3 ; bracts of involucre and 

 iuvolucel ovate, scarious ; fruit oblong-ovate, 

 .014 long, .008 broad, including barbed prickles 

 — Spring — Fields ; common. 



Var. g^eiiuiiia, Boiss. Dorsal prickles 

 long ; margin prickly. 



Var. tuberctilata, Boiss. Dorsal prick- 

 les long ; margin tubercled. 



Var. bracliyacautlia, Boiss. Dorsal umbeiiet'ofT. 



prickles short ; margin tubercled. latifoUa. 



Var. uutfaria, Post. Dorsal prickles in 1 row. Ribs densely 

 scaly-tubercled — Aintab. 



Tl. L.I§^A, Boiss. Xis^A. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Fruits laterally compressed, constricted at 

 commissure ; raphe linear. Lateral primary ribs obsolete, dorsal 3, 

 expanded into sparingly denticulate crests ; secondary ribs obsolete or 

 changed into a row of tubercles. Oil-tubes under secondary ribs ob- 

 solete. Albumen involute — Annual, scabrous, white-flowered 

 herbs. 



li. lieterocarpa, D.C. .4 to .5, pubescent, and scabrous 

 with barbed bristles, sparingly dichotomous. Leaves pinnatisect, seg- 

 ments oblong-lanceolate, 1 -2-dentate or incised. Rays 4-8 ; bracts of 

 involucre and involucel membranous, lanceolate-cuspidate ; marginal 

 petals . 008 long ; fruit tubercled, crustaceous ; secondary ribs obsolete ; 

 primary dorsal with 2-3 teeth, those of outer mericarps triangular, 

 prickly, of inner short, unarmed or nearly so — Spring — Cultivated 

 fields ; Ccelesyria and Antilebanon to Aintab, and eastward. 



Var. Syriaca, Post. Fruit glabrous or minutely granular. Teeth 

 of outer mericarp 6-7. Foliage often more dissected than type — 

 Grain fields ; more common in Syria than the type. {L. Syriaca, 

 Boiss.) 



Tribe X liASERPITIEiE. 



72. L.ASERPITIUM, L. Laserpitidm. 



Calyx-teeth short. Fruit oblong, nearly terete. Primary ribs 5, 

 filiform, secondary 4, expanded into equal wings, or the dorsal obso- 

 lete, the lateral at margin. Oil-tubes 1 under each secondary rib. Inner 

 face of seed flat — Perennial, tall herbs, with white or yellow flowers. 



L. ^laucuin, Post. 21 1 or more ; glabrous, glaucous ; stem 

 stout, sparingly branched above ; neck densely fibrous. Lower leaves 

 large, .2 to .3 long, ovate in outline, 2-ternately pinnatisect, the second- 

 ary petioles remote the leaflets ovate to round-ovate, heart-shaped at base, 

 dentate, simple or 3-lobed, upper leaves reduced to oblong, glaucous 

 sheatha. Rays 10-16, nearly equal, .02 long ; bracts of involucre and 

 involucel oblong-lanceolate, acute, as long as rays and pedicels ; petals 

 greenish ; fruit (immature) oblong, wings nearly equal — August — 

 Akherdagh. 



