1J<6 LXIir. UMBELLTFER.1E. 



into 2 parts but 2-locular, with 1 cell abortive. Seed 1, 

 roundish, convex on one side, furrowed on the other. — Fl. Cap. 

 ii. p. 56J^. 



Perennial, stemless plants, with rosulate, ciliate leaves, close-pressed to the 

 ground. Male umbels compound, pedunculate, sterile ; umbellules nearly 

 globose ; involucre of 5-7 leaves. Female umbels sessile, fertile, girt by 4 

 or 5 concrete involucral leaves ; these are rigid, netted-veined and spinous- 

 toothed, enlarging as tlie fruit ripens. Petals white, — 3 species, dispersed. 



3J^. HERMAS, Linn. 

 Calyx-margin 5-parted, leafy, persistent. Petals oval-oblong, 

 acute, keeled, entire, equal. Fruit ovate ; carpels somewhat 

 indated, dorsally compressed, 5-ridged, 1 dorsal exserted, 2 

 intermediate larger, and the 2 lateral very small ; furrows 

 broad, with many vittie ; carpophore undivided. Seed not 

 adnate to the pericarp, elliptic, subconcave within. — Fl. Cap. 

 ii. p. 567 ; Rook. Ic. Plant, t. 1001. 



Herbs or undershrubs, with simple, subdentate leaves, and compound, 

 many-rayed, globose umbels. Involucre many-leaved : involucel 3-leaved. 

 Leaves thickly-woollv on one or both sides. The wool of H. gigantea 

 (Tundelboom) is used for tinder. — 5 species, dispersed. 



35. CONIUM, Linn. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals obcordate, submarginate, 

 with a short, inflexed point. Fruit ovate, laterally compressed ; 

 carpels with 5 prominent, equal, subundulated or crenulated 

 ribs ; lateral ones marginal ; furrows with many striae, but 

 without vittse ; carpophore 2-fid at the apex. Seed with a 

 deep, narrow furrow, as if it were longitudinally folded. — Fl. 

 Cap. ii. p)- 567. 



C. chceropTii/Uoides, E. and Z., our only species, grows in the Eastern 

 district and beyond tlie Eastern frontier. Stem scabrid; leaves 3-4-pinnate, 

 glabrous ; fruit with very prominent, subundulate, but not erenulate wings. 

 — The type of this genus is the well-known poison ^Hemlock (C. maculatum), 

 a common European weed. 



Order LXIV. ARALIACE^. 



Flowers nearly as in UmbelUferce. Ovary inferior, with 2 

 or more cells ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; styles or sessile 

 stigmas as many as the cells of the ovary. Fruit fleshy, or 

 nearly dry, 2-many-celled, crowned by the persistent calyx- 

 limb ; end'ocarp crustaceous or bony. Albumen copious, horny. 

 Embryo minute. — Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, chiefly tropi- 

 cal. Leaves alternate, simple or compound, digitate, pedate 

 or pinnate. 



Fruit roundish, top-shaped, crowned with a large disk . . 1. Cussonia. 

 Fruit laterally compressed, oblong 2. Panax. 



