UMrELLIFER/E. (PAKSLEY lAMILV.) 205 



pound leaves, mostly no involucre, involucels of narrow hrac-tlcts, an<l white 

 flowers in lar<2^o Tuaiiy-raycd umbels. (Named from the country A/V/f/r/Vi, where 

 tlie ortic-inal l.<>rti(i< of tlie gardens abounds.) 



1. L. actseifblium, Michx. (Noxdo. An(;ki.ic<).) Stem HtMut, branched 

 above (2-6° hi<^h) ; leaves very large, 3-4-ternate; kajlets hroadli/ oliloin/ (2- 

 b' I (»}()), coarse! 1/ serrate ; fruit ovate (2-3" lonr/) ; seed with angieil back. — 

 l\icli ground, S. Penn. to Ky., southward to the Gulf. 



2. L. Scbticum, L. (Scotch Lovage.) Stem simple (1-2° high); 

 leaves bit ernate ; leajlets ovate {1-2' lony), coarseli/ toothed ; fruit uurruu-li/ ult- 

 loiifj (4-5" Ion;/) ; seed with round back. — Salt marshes, along the coa.st from 

 E. Conn, northward. Aug. (Ku.) 



13. iETHUSA, L. Fool's rAusLi:v. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose, slightly flattened dorsally ; carpel 

 with 5 thick sharp ril)s ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commis.sure. 

 — Poisonous annuals, with 2-.'3-ternateiy compound leaves, divisiuiis j)innato, 

 ultimate segments small and many cleft, no involucre, long narrow invulucels, 

 and white flowers. (Name from aiOoo, to buni, from the acrid taste.) 



^. C vnApium, L. a fetid, poisonous European herb, in cultivated grounds, 

 from N. Eng. and Penn. to Minn. June -Aug. 



14. CCELOPLEIJRUM, Ledeb. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit globose to oblong, with very prominent nearly 

 equal thick corky ribs (none of them winged) ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals 

 and under the riljs, 2 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp. — Stout 

 glabrous (or inflorescence puberulent) sea-coast perennial, with 2-3-tcrnate 

 leaves on very large inflated petioles, few-leaved deciduous involucre, involu- 

 cels of numerous small linear-lanceolate bractlets (rarely conspicuous or even 

 leaf-like), and greenish-white flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From ko7\os, 

 holloiv, and TvAevpou, a rib.) 



1. C. Gm61ini, Ledeb. Stem 1-3° high; leaflets ovate, irregularly cut- 

 serrate (2-2^' long); fruit 2-3|" long. (Archangelica Gmelini, DC.) — 

 Rocky coasts, Mass. to Greenland. 



15. CRANTZIA, Nutt. 



Calyx-teeth small. Fruit globose or sliglitly flattened laterally ; dor.sal ribs 

 filiform, the lateral tliick and corky ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on 

 the commissure. — Small j)ereimials, creeping and rooting in tlie mud, with 

 hollow cylindrical or awl-sliaped nodose petioles in place of leaves, sim])le few- 

 flowered umbels, and white flowers. (Named for Prof Iltnri/ John Crantz, 

 an Austrian Itotanist of the 1 8th century.) 



1. C. lineata, Nutt. Leaves very ol)tuse, 1-3' long, 1-2" broad; fruit 

 1" long, the thick lateral wings forming a corky margin. — In brackish marshes 

 along the coast, from Mass. to Miss. .July. Vvry wi»k'ly distributed. 



16. FCENICULUM, Adans. Fknnkl. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, glabrous, with pronunent ribs and soli- 

 tary oil-tubes. — Stout glal)r(His aronuitic herl), with leaves dissected into 



