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HH. Plants of mountains and plains, glabrous or merely pubescent; wings of 

 the carpels thin. 



I. Leaves pinnate; leaf segments wide, crowded, more or less confluent ; 

 flowers purple or pinkish. E. (Gk. phellos cork, pteron = wing; re- 

 ferring to the fruit-wings.) Phellopterus purpurascens 



II. Leaves ternate and then pinnate; leaf segments linear, not crowded, more 

 or less hard-tipped; flowers yellow or white. (Gk. pteryx = a bird's wing; 

 referring to the wide fruit-wings.) Pteryxia 



GG. Ribs of the carpels not winged. 



J. Stem leaves simple, entire, clasping or perfoliate. E. (Gk. bous = an 

 ox, pleuron = a rib; referring to the conspicuous leaf veins of some species.) 



Bupleurum americanum (THOROUGHWAX) 

 JJ. Stem leaves none or not as above. 



K. Flowers yellow; carpel rib all filiform; plant without leafy stem. C. 

 (Gk. hespera = evening or western, gennao = to beget; a western genus.) 



Hesperogenia Strickland! 



KK. Flowers white or greenish; at least the lateral carpel ribs corky. 

 L. Stem 3 dm. or less high; lateral carpel ribs thick and corky, the dorsal 

 filiform. (.Gk. oros a mountain, gennao = to beget; they are mountain 

 plants.) Orogenia 



LL. Stem 5 dm. or more high; all the carpel ribs corky and equally prominent. 

 M. Calyx teeth minute; fruit flattened laterally; leaves pinnate. W. E. 

 (Gk. sion = the name of some marsh plant.) 



Slum cicutaefolium (WATER PARSNIP) 



MM. Calyx teeth none; fruit not or hardly flattened either way; leaves 

 2-3 -terminate. W. (Gk. koilos = hollow, pleuron = a rib; from the 

 hollow fruit ribs.) Coelopleurum 



CARUM (CARAWAY) 



Glabrous, erect. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets few. Flowers white ; in- 

 volucre and involucels present. Fruit flattened laterally, oblong to orbicular, 

 glabrous ; ribs filiform or inconspicuous ; oil tubes large, i in each interval, 

 2-6 on the commissure side. (From Caria, a country in Asia Minor, where 

 first found.) 



A. Even the upper leaves twice pinnate; fruit oblong, 4-5 mm. long. W. Culti- 

 vated for the seed, as a spice. C. carui (GARDEN CARAWAY) 

 AA. At least the upper few leaves only once pinnate. 



B. Fruit orbicular, 2 mm. long. W. C. E. C. gairdneri 

 BB. Fruit oblong, 3-4 mm. long. 



C. Fruit rounded at both ends. C. E. C. oreganum 



CC. Fruit narrowed at both ends. U. C. lemmon 



. DAUCUS (CARROT) 



Annual or biennial. Flowers white; umbels compound. Calyx teeth 

 obsolete. Fruit oblong, somewhat flattened dorsally; primary ribs 5, 

 slender; secondary ribs 4, winged; oil tubes i in each interval, 2 on the 

 commissure side. (Daukos was the Greek name for the Carrot.) 



