Apium.] LXX. UMBELLIFEBJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 679 



tip inflexed. Fruit orbicular or elliptic, slightly longer than broad, laterally 

 subcompressed ; carpels semi-terete, subpentagonal, plane on the inner face ; pri- 

 mary ridges distinct, filiform ; secondary ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore un- 

 divided, or shortly 2-fid. Seed semi-terete, dorsally subcompressed. DISTRIB. 

 Species 14, scattered throughout the world. 



The genus is hardly separable from Carum; the one Indian species is easily 

 recognized by its short-peduncled umbels opposite a leaf without bracts or brac- 

 teoles. 



1. A. graveolens, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 101; radical leaves pinnate 

 with large deeply lobed segments, cauline 3-partite, segments once or twice 

 trifid coarsely toothed. Wall Cat. 7212 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 367 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 856. 



Base of the NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA, and outlying hills in the PUNJAB ; Falconer, 

 Jacguemont, &c. DISTRIB. Cabul, West Asia, Europe, North Africa. 



Biennial. Stem 1-8 ft., erect, branched. Peduncle 0-J in., leaf-opposed : rays of 

 the umbel 5-10, -!>- in.; pedicels 6-16, ^- in ' Fruit ^-i in. ; ridges narrow, 

 vittse broad, occupying the whole breadth of the furrows. Wild celery. 



9. CICUTA, Linn. 



Herbs, perennial, tall, glabrous. Leaves usually compound-pinnate. Umbels 

 compound, rays numerous. Bracts 0, or few ; bracteoles many, small. Flowers 

 white. Calyx-teeth acute, minute. Petals obovate, emarginate. Fruit ovoid, 

 not longer than broad, subcompressed, distinctly narrowed at the commissure ; 

 carpels semi-terete, dorsally compressed, plane on the inner face ; primary 

 ridges broad, corky, obtuse ; furrows very narrow, 1-vittate ; carpophore 2-par- 

 tite. Seed semi-terete, dorsally compressed. DISTRIB. Species 3, in the North 

 Temperate Zone. 



1. C. virosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 99 5 cauline leaves 2-3-pinnate, seg- 

 ments lanceolate serrate. Engl. Bot. t. 479; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1853. 

 Cicutaria aquatica, Lanik. Diet. ii. 2, III. t. 195. 



KASHMIR ; Falconer ; Srinuggur, alt. 5200 ft., C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB. Through- 

 out Europe and Temperate Asia ; in marshes and ditches. 



Stem 2-5 ft., striate, hollow. Leaflets 1-2 by f-f in. Peduncles 2-3 in., termi- 

 nal and leaf-opposed. Bracts ; bracteoles 2-8, in., linear or narrowly lanceolate- 

 linear; rays often 15, l-2^ in. ; pedicels often 30-40, ^-| in. Fruit ^ in. in 

 Indian examples (often in. in European), lateral primary ridges commissural ; 

 commissure obscurely constricted in some Indian examples. Water hemlock. 



10. FITURANTHOS, Viv. 



Perennial herbs, branched, somewhat rigid. Radical leaves 2-3-pinnate, 

 cauline much reduced. Umbels compound; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate- 

 linear, small, or 0. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals white, ovate, emarginate. 

 Fruit ovoid or oblong, more or less laterally compressed, usually hairy ; carpels 

 terete, subpentagonal; primary ridges distinct (when the hair is removed), 

 obtuse ; furrows 1-vittate ; carpophore 2-partite. DISTRIB. Species 5 African, 

 2 Indian. 



