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P . sativum (Parsley) is naturalized from Europe. Leaves decompound, 

 shining ; leaflets much cut. Flowers white or greenish. Involucres few- 

 leaved J involucels of many filiform leaves. 



6. HELOSCIADIUM, Koch. 



Calyx-margin S-tootlied or obsolete. Petals ovate, entire, 

 with a straight or incurved point. Fruit ovate or oblong, 

 laterally compressed ; carpels with 5 filiform, prominent, equal 

 ridges, the lateral marginal ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 

 distinct, entire. Seeds convex, flattish in front. — Fl. Cap. ii. 

 p. 535, 



Stems prostrate or erect ; leaves pinnate or ternate, glabrous or hairy. — 

 2 species, dispersed. 



7. PTYCHOTIS, Koch. 



Calyx-margin 5-toothed. Petals obovate, 2-fid, or deeply 

 emarginate, with a long, inflexed point. Fruit compressed, 

 ovate or oblong ; carpels with 5 equal, filiform, primary ridges, 

 the lateral ones marginal ; furrows with single vittae ; carpo- 

 phore 2-parted. Seeds convex, flattish in front. — Fl. Cap. ii. 

 p. 536. 



Annual or biennial. Cauline leaves much cut into slender segments., 

 Umbels axillary ; involucels many-leaved, involucre present or absent ; 

 flowers white ; fruit smooth or muricated. — 5 Cape species, dispersed. 



8. CARUM, Linn. 



Calyx-margin obsolete or nearly so. Petals obovate or 

 elliptic, emarginate, with an inflexed point. Stylopod de- 

 pressed or shortly conical. Fruit ovate or oblong, laterally 

 compressed ; carpels with 5 filiform, equal ribs, the lateral 

 marginal ; furrows 1-vittate ; commissure 2-vittate; carpophore 

 free, forked or 2-parted. Seeds convex, flattish in fruit. — Fl. 

 Cap. ii. p. 538. 



C. Capense, Sond., our only species, has a fleshy aromatic root {FenTcel- 

 wortel), a branching stem ; 3-pinnate, capillary -multifid radical leaves, and 

 sheath-like abortive cauline leaves. Flowers white. — Eastern and Western 

 districts. 



9. PIMPINELLA, Linn. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals obovate, emarginate, with a 

 long inflexed point. Fruit laterally compressed, ovate, 

 crowned with the reflexed styles, whose bases are much 

 swollen, smooth or hairy ; carpels with 5 filiform, equal ridges, 

 the lateral marginal ; furrows with many vittje ; commissure 

 2-vittate; carpophore free, 2-fid. — Fl. Cap. ii.p. 538. 



Herbs with 2-pinnatifid or cordate radical leaves and pinnatifid cauline 

 leaves. Neither involucre nor involucel. Flowers white or yellow. — 2 

 Cape species, both Eastern. 



