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UMBELLIFER^E. XLV. FALCARIA. XLVI. SISON. XLVII. SCHULTZIA. XLVIII. AMMI. 



leaflets petiolate, quite entire, some linear and others filiform. 

 y.. H. Native of Nipaul. Sison? diversifolius, Wall. mss. 

 Stem much branched. Herb glabrous. Lower leaves unknown. 

 Fruit ovate. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Mature fruit not 

 seen, and therefore the vittae are not well known. Both the 

 involucra and involucels are composed of a few linear, short, 

 acute, undivided leaves. 



Diverse-leaved Falcaria. PI. 2 feet. 



Cult. The two first species will grow in any soil, and under 

 any circumstance. Those natives of Java will require to be 

 grown in a stove. 



XLVI. SI'SON (from sisum, Celt, a running stream; some 

 plants formerly contained in this genus were inhabitants of run- 

 ning streams). Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 103. Koch, umb. p. 123. 

 D. C. prod. 4. p. 110. Sison species, Lin. and all other authors. 



LIN. SYST. Pentandria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obsolete. 

 Petals roundish, curved, deeply emarginate, with an inflexed 

 point. Styles very short. Fruit compressed from the sides, ovate ; 

 mericarps with 5 filiform equal ribs ; lateral ribs marginating : 

 having one short, club-shaped vitta in each furrow between the 

 ribs ; carpophore bipartite. Seed gibbously convex, flatfish in 

 front. Herbs paniculately branched. Leaves pinnate ; lower 

 leaflets a little lobed, toothed, or cut : upper ones linear, multifid. 

 Both the involucra and involucels are composed of few leaves. 

 Umbels of 4 unequal, elongated rays ; and the umbellules of 4-5- 

 short rays. 



1 S. AMOMUM (Lin. spec. p. 362.) stem erect, terete, panicu- 

 lately branched ; leaves pinnate ; lower leaflets rather lobed and 

 toothed : upper ones linear-multifid ; upper leaves ternate. $ . 

 H. Native of Britain,- France, Italy, Sicily, Greece, &c. in 

 fields, on a dry calcareous soil ; in Britain not unfrequent in 

 rather moist spots under hedges, where the soil is marly or 

 chalky. Jacq. hort. vind. 3. t. 17. Hayn. term. bot. t. 36. 

 f. 10. Schkuhr, handb. t. 65. Smith, engl. bot. t. 954. Slum 

 aromaticum, Lam. diet. 1. p. 405. Seseli Amomum, Scop earn, 

 ed. 2. no. 355. Cicuta Amomum, Crantz, aust. p. 96. Smyrnium 

 heterophyllum, Mcench, meth. p. 97. Flowers cream-coloured. 

 Seeds aromatic and pungent when dry and ripe ; but in an early 

 state they, like the whole herb, have a peculiar nauseous smell. 



4momum or Ginger-seeded Stone-parsley. Fl. July, Aug. 

 Britain. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 



f Doubtful species. 



2 S. ? SIEBERIA'NUM (D. C. prod. 4. p. 111.) plant glabrous, 

 dwarf ; leaves almost radical, ternate, or tripartite ; segments 

 approximate, cuneated at the base, very blunt at the apex, ere- 

 nately toothed, or somewhat cut ; involucrum wanting. Q.I H. 

 Native of Candia, on the tops of the Sphaceotic mountains. Sison 

 alpinus, Sieb. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 414. Peucedanum Creti- 

 cum, Sieb. herb. cret. 1826. Spreng. neu. entd. 2. p. 148. 

 From the immature fruit this appears to be a species of Carum 

 or Bunium, the fruit being compressed from the margin, not 

 from the back. Stem a finger in height. Umbels 4-5-rayed. 



Sieber's Stone-parsley. PI. ^ foot. 



3 S. TRINE'RVE (Hamilt. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 184.) 

 stem erect, terete, dichotomous, striated, nearly naked ; leaves 

 all radical, pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, quite entire, 3- 

 nerved, glabrous ; involucrum 5-leaved ; leaves of involucels 

 lanceolate, awned. 2. H. Native of Nipaul, about Bassaria. 

 The fruit is undescribed, and the genus is therefore doubtful. 



TVee-nen-erf-leaved Stone-parsley. PI. 1 foot. 

 Cult. 1 he seeds of the species only require to be sown in 

 spring, in any common earth. 



XLVII. SCHU'LTZIA (in honour of John Henry Schultze, 

 a celebrated German botanist). Spreng. umb. spec. p. 102. 



and in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 44. Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 9!). D. C. 

 prod. 4. p. 112. Sison species, Pall. Schultzia, Spreng. umb. 

 prod. p. 30. 



LIN. SYST. Pentandria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obso- 

 lete. Petals elliptic, terminated by a short inflexed point. Sty- 

 lopodium conical. Styles erect, rather capitate at the apex, 

 permanent, at length diverging. Fruit cylindrieally prismatic, 

 the transverse section nearly terete ; mericarps somewhat com- 

 pressed from the sides, and furnished with 5 filiform, exserted 

 ribs : the 2 lateral ribs nearly marginal : having the furrows 

 between the ribs flat, and furnished with 1 vitta each. Carpo- 

 phore undivided. Seed nearly terete. Smooth perennial herbs. 

 Leaves either radical, or from the lower part of the stem, bipin- 

 nate ; leaflets many-parted, decussate at the rachis : segments 

 linear, acute. Umbels terminal, on long peduncles of many 

 rays. Both the involucra and involucels are composed of many 

 multifid leaves ; the lobes linear and acute. Flowers white, all 

 fertile. 



1 S. CRINI'TA (Spreng. 1. c.). $ . H. Native of the Altaia, 

 on the highest of the mountains, not far from the torrent of 

 Tegerek. Sison crinltum, Pall. act. petrop. 1779. 12. p. 250. 

 t. 7. Willd. spec. 1. p. 1438. 



Long-haired Schultzia. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1818. PI. 1 ft. 



Cult. The seeds only require to be sown in the open ground. 



XLVIII. A'MMI (from a/*po{, ammos, sand ; habitation of 

 plants). Tourn. inst. t. 159. Lin. gen. no. 334.' Spreng. 

 umb. prod. p. 41. Lag. am. nat. 2. p. 104. Koch, umb. p. 

 122. D. C. prod. 4. p. 112. 



LIK. SYST. Pentandria, Digynia. Margin of calyx obso- 

 lete. Petals obovate, emarginately 2-lobed, with an inflexed 

 point; lobes of petals unequal, irregular, those of the outer part 

 of the umbel usually the largest. Fruit ovate-oblong, compres- 

 sed from the sides ; mericarps furnished with 5 equal, filiform 

 ribs : lateral ribs marginating : having the furrows between the 

 ribs furnished with one vitta each ; carpophore free, bipartite. 

 Seed teretely convex on the outside, and flattish in front. Herbs 

 with the habit of Daucus, having fusiform roots and pinnate or 

 many-parted leaves. Umbels compound, of many rays. Both 

 the involucra and involucels are of many leaves ; the leaves of 

 the involucrum trifid or pinnatifid. Flowers white. 



1 A. MA'JUS (Lin. spec. p. 349.) stem glabrous ; leaves pinnate ; 

 leaflets with cartilaginous, sharply serrulated margins ; those of 

 the inferior leaves obovate-oblong, and those of the upper ones 

 multifid, linear-lanceolate. Q. H. Native of south and middle 

 Europe, Egypt, and the Levant ; also of Newfoundland. Lam. 

 ill. 193. Smith, fl. grsec. t. 273. Schkuhr, handb. t. 61. 

 A'pium A'mmi, Crantz, aust. 217. A'mmi Boeberi, Hoeq. diss. 

 abo. 1810. and A. cicutsefolium, Willd. herb, ex Schultes, syst. 

 6. p. 591. do not differ in any particular from A. majus. The 

 A. Boeberi, HoflTm. umb. XVIII. Horn, suppl. p. 32. is merely 

 a larger variety of the present species. Lob. icon. t. 721. f. 1. 

 Mill. fig. 25. Plench. icon. 181. Blackw. t. 447. Flowers 

 white : outer ones of the umbels large, like those of the rest of 

 the species. Stem-leaves biternate. 



Greater or Common Bishop's-weed. Fl. June, July. Clt. 

 1557. PI. 3 to 4 feet. 



2 A. GLAUCIFOLIUM (Lin. spec. 349. exclusive of the syno- 

 nyme of J. Bauh.) stem glabrous ; leaves all bipinnate, jagged ; 

 segments narrow-linear; acute, and a little serrated. $ . H. 

 Native of France, at Lucon (Guett. etamp. 2. p. 433.), about 

 Paris(Thuill. par. 137.) Andegaveny (Bast. ess. 105. \ Rouen, 

 Nannetes, and in Dauphiny (Vill. dauph. 2. p. 592.), Greece, 

 (Smith, prod. fl. graec. 1. p. 185.), Spain at Aranjuez, Sicily, 

 Liguria. This species differs from A. majus in the characters 

 mentioned above, and in the more branched habit and glaucous 



