SECT. II 



PHANEROGAMIA 



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separate sexes by abortion of stamens or carpels ; sometimes the plants become 

 dioecious. The ovary is completelj' wanting in the male flowers. 



2. Campylos2)ermae. — The ventral side of the endosperm is traversed by a 

 longitudinal groove (Fig. 661, 3). Seandix, Anthriscus (Beaked Parsley), Chacro- 

 plLijllam (Chervil). Conium maculatum, the Hemlock, is a biennial plant often of 



Fio. 667. — Conittm waculatum (A nat. size). Official and Pojuonovh. 



considerable height ; it is completely glabrous, the stem and leaf-stalks often m ith 

 purple spots ; leaves dull green, bi- to tri-pinnate. The ultimate segments end in 

 a small, colourless, bristle-like tip. Fruit with wavy, crenate ridges and without oil- 

 ducts in the valleculae. The whole plant has a peculiar, unpleasant odour (Fig. 667). 

 3. Coelospermac- — The ventral side of the endosperm is concave (Fig. 661, 4). 

 Coriandrum sativum is an annual plant ; flowers zygomorphic owing to the enlarge- 

 ment of the sepals and petals at the periphery of the umbel. Fruit spherical ; 



