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UMBELLIFEILE. XCVII. IMPERATORIA. XCVIII. CALLISACE. XCIX. BUBON. C. ANETIIUM. 



plant has the appearance of a species of Liguslicum. Fruit 

 winged, as in Peucedanum, sect. iv. but the calycine teeth are 

 obsolete, and the involucrum is wanting, as in the other species 

 of Imperatoria. 



Caucasian Masterwort. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



4 I. MEXICA'NA (Hort. Chelsea). %.. H. Native of Mexico. 

 A broad-leaved species, received by Mr. Anderson, of the 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden, from Mr. Otto, of the Botanic Garden 

 at Berlin, in the year 1818, but it has not yet flowered. It may 

 prove hereafter to belong to a distinct genus. 



Mexican Masterwort. Clt. 1818. PI. 3 to 4 ft.V 



Cult. Plants of easy culture ; and may be eilljlfincreased 

 by dividing the roots or by seed. 



XCVIII. CALLI'SACE (from KU\\OC, hallos, beauty, and 

 crq.Kof, salcos, a buckler ; fruit). Fisch. in Hoffin. umb. ed. 2. 

 p. 170. exclusive of some species. D. C. prod. 4. p. 184. Koch, 

 in litt. 



LIN. SYST. Pentdndria, Digynia. Margin of calyx some- 

 what 5-toothed or nearly obsolete. Petals oval, acuminated, 

 incurved. Fruit compressed on the back, winged on the mar- 

 gin, nearly orbicular, emarginate at the base. Mericarps with 

 3 blunt, dorsal, nerve-formed ribs ; the 2 lateral ribs expanded 

 into wings, which cover the whole surface of the fruit. Vittae 

 1 in each dorsal furrow, which are narrow, and 1 on each side 

 of the commissure at the margins. Parts of carpophore adnate 

 to the mericarps. Seed complanate. A perennial herb, \\ith 

 the habit of Angelica or Ostericum, Sheaths "of leaves large : 

 upper ones leafless. Umbels pubescent, of many rays. Invo- 

 lucra none, or of few leaves. Umbellules dense, many-flowered. 

 Involucels of many setaceous leaves. Flowers white. This is 

 an intermediate genus between Angelica and Imperatoria. 



1 C. DAHU'RICA (Fisch. in litt. D. C. prod. 4. p. 184.). 

 1. H. Native of Dahuria, near Nertschinsky-Sawod. Thys- 

 selinum Dahuricum, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 894. Habit of Oste- 

 ricum pratensis, but more branched, fnirieik and thicker in the 

 stem. Habit also of Angelica Razoul&^but the leaves are 

 more deeply serrated, the sheaths larger and inflated, and the 

 involucrum composed of one or two leaves. 



Dahurian Callisace. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1816. PI. 2 to 3 ft. 



Cult. See Imperatoria above for culture and propagation. 



XCIX. BITBON (from flovfiuiv, boubon, the groin, or a tu- 

 mour in that part, or elsewhere, which this herb was supposed 

 to cure). Koch, umb. 95. D. C. prod. 4. p. 184. but not of 

 Spreng. Bubon species, Spreng. in Schultes, syst. Agasy'llis 

 species, Spreng. prod. Galbanophora, Neck. elem. no. 292. 



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

 lete. Petals obovate, entire, with an acute involute point. Fruit 

 lenticularly compressed from the back, girded by a dilated com- 

 planate margin. Mericarps with 5 ribs at equal distances : the 

 3 intermediate ones filiform : and the 2 lateral ones lost in the 

 complanate margins. Vittse covering the whole seed, 4 on the 

 back and 2 in the commissure. Carpophore bipartite. Seed 

 rather convex, flattish in front.- Quite smooth shrubs, natives 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, abounding in a gummy, resinous, 

 sweet-scentedjuice. Stems terete. Leaves biternate, glaucous, 

 stiffish ; leaflets toothed or pinnatifid ; petioles sheathing. Um- 

 bels compound, of many rays. Involucra and involucels of 

 many linear leaves. Flowers greenish yellow. 



1 B. GA'LBANUM (Lin. spec. p. 364.) leaflets cuneated, rhom- 

 boid, deeply toothed at the apex : terminal ones S-lobed. Tj . 

 G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, on hills. Jacq. vind. 

 3. t. 36. Thumb, fl. cap. 253. Berg. cap. 77. Woodv. med. 

 hot. 34. t. 12. Sims, bot, mag. 2489. Selinum Galbanum, 

 Spreng. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 563. Agasy'llis Galbanum, 



Spreng, prod. 22. Pluk. aim. t. 12. f. 2. Herm. par. 163. 

 with a figure. Dorsal vittse of fruit under a thick pericarp. 

 Stem with purplish bark, covered with whitish powder. This 

 was formerly supposed to be the plant which yielded the drug 

 called gum galbanum ; but it has lately been discovered to be 

 the produce of quite a different plant, a native of Persia, now 

 called Galbanum officindle. 



Galbanum Bubon. Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1596. Sh. 4 to 10 ft. 



2 B. GUMMI'FERUM (Lin. spec. 364.) leaflets cuneated at the 

 base, pinnatifid : segments lanceolate, acute. f? . G. Native 

 of the south of Africa. Selinumgummiferum, Spreng. in 

 Schultes, syst. 6. p. 564. Comm. hort. amst. 2. p. 115. t. 58. 

 Like the preceding, but differs in the leaves being more finely 

 divided. Dorsal vittae of fruit superficial. 



Gum-bearing Bubon. Fl. Jul. Clt. 1731. PI. 2 to 6 feet. 



3 B. L-EVIGA'TUM (Ait. hort. kew. ed. 1. vol. 1. p. 352. ed. 2. 

 vol. 2. p. 146.) leaves bipinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, bluntly and 

 obsoletely crenated ; fruit glabrous. Jj . G. Native of the 

 south of Africa. Ferula laevigata, Spreng. umb. spec. p. 88. 

 Flowers yellow. Fruit thick, solid, witli 3 dorsal obtuse ribs 

 (ex Spreng.). Leaves glaucous. 



Smooth Bubon. Fl. Mar. Dec. Clt. 1774. Sh. 4 to 10 ft. 

 Cult. A mixture of loam, peat, and sand is a good soil for 

 these shrubs; but they can only be propagated by seed. 



C. ANE'THUM (avifiov, anethon, of Theophrastus and 

 Dioscorides, from avw, ano, upwards, and Ot<i>,4heo, to run ; from 

 the quick growth of the plant). Tourn. inst. p. 317. t. 69. 

 Gaertn. fr. 91. t.21. Hoflm. umb. 1. p. 117. t. 1. f. 13. Lag. 

 am. nat. 2. p. 91. Koch, umb. p. 91. Anethum species, Lin. 

 Pastinaca species, Spreng. 



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

 Petals roundish, entire, involute, with a somewhat quadrate re- 

 tuse point. Fruit lenticularly compressed from the back, girded 

 by a complanate margin. Ribs of mericarps filiform, at equal 

 distances : the 3 intermediate ones acutely keeled : and the 2 

 lateral ones more obsolete, and running into the flattened mar- 

 gin. t Vittse broad, solitary in the furrows, and filling them, but 

 twin m-the commissure. Seed rather convex, flattish in front. 

 Annual, erect, glabrous herbs. Leaves decompound, with 

 linear-setaceous lobes. Involucra and involucels wanting. 

 Flowers yellow, nearly like those of Pastinaca. 



1 A. SE'GETUM (Lin. mant. 219.) fruit oval, nearly destitute 

 of the membranous margins. Q. H. Native of France, Por- 

 tugal, Sardinia, Greece, Persia, &c. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 132. 

 D'Urv. enum. p. 33. Brot. fl. lus. 1. p. 465. Meum segetum, 

 Guss. prod. fl. sic. 1. p. 346. Anethum graveolens, Ucria, ex 

 Guss, A. pusillum, Hortul. Perhaps only a variety of the 

 following, according to Brotero ; but it differs from it in the 

 mericarps being almost without a margin, and in being rather 

 more convex on the back, and therefoie holds an intermediate 

 station between Anethum and Foeniculum. 



Corn-field Dill. Fl. June, Jul. Clt. 1796. PI. $ to 1 foot. 



2 A. GRAVE' OLENS (Lin. spec. 37?.) fruit elliptic, girded by a 

 flat, dilated margin. $ . H. Native of the south of Europe, 

 Egypt, and about Astrachan, in corn-fields ; and in meadows 

 towards the Caspian sea, between Sallian and Lenkeran ; also of 

 the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of Timor ; of South 

 America, about Buenos Ayres. Fl. dan. 1572. Brot. fl. his. 1. 

 p. 464. Hayn. arz. gew. 7. t. 17. Woodv. med. bot. 159. 

 Plench. icon. 215. Blackw. 545. Pastinaca Anethum, Spreng. 

 in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 587. Anethum minus, Gouan. ill. p. 

 20. Selinum Anethum, Roth. fl. germ. 1. p. 143. Fcemculum 

 vulgare, Hook, in Beech, bot. Riv. pent. t. 13. Mor. umb. 

 t. 1. f. 22. Fuchs. hist. p. 30. Lob. icon. 776. The com- 

 mon dill is a plant of upright growth, somewhat similar to fennel, 



