182 PEMANDRIA. DIGYXFA. 



compi'essed, surrounded with an alated margin, 

 striated, strife 5 on each seed; intervals ele- 

 vated, lined; commissure ilat. 



Involiicrum few -leaved, very short, rare'y 1 to 5-leaved; 

 InvoUicell many-leaved, shorter; flowers mostly yellow. 



Species. 1. i-*. *tcvvatvm. Jxaves all ternate, i)j)0!i 

 very long common petioles; partial leaves entire, long-, 

 linear, acute, and attenuated below; involucrum nearly 

 wanting; involucell very short, 5 or 6-leaved; fruit oblong-- 

 eiiiptic. 



Descript. Perennial. Fvery where smooth. Stem 3 

 feet hig-h, striate and slender. Leaves very few, 5 or 6; 

 peduncle of the lowest near 2 feet long! dividing- above 

 into 3 linear leaves, either petiolated or filiformly attenu- 

 ated downwards, from 4 to 6 or 8 inches long, perfectly 

 entire, and scarcely 3 lines wide. I'mbells 1 or 2, termi- 

 nal; involucrum none, or 1 or 2 minute leaves, radii elon- 

 gated, 6 to 9. Segments of the involucell subulate, 2 or 

 3 lines long; pedicelis filiform more than an inch. Flow- 

 ers ? Calix marginal, entire, or none. Styles sliort, 



reflected; fungous base elevated. Mature seed oblong- 

 elliptic, large as that of a parsnip, flatly compressed, but 

 convexly incurved, suiTounded with a thick, alated fun- 

 gous white margin, continued internally entirely over the 

 commissure. Seed tliin, longitudinally scored with 5 

 equidistant paler lines, and 5 dark striated intervals. 



Hab. On the brushy margins of swamps, in the pine- 

 forests of North and South Carolina. 1 have not seen the 

 flower. 



Of this genus there are in Europe about 4 species, 2 at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, 1 in Japan, 1 in the Canary islands, 

 1 in Crete, and a heteromorphous species in New Zea- 

 land. 



266. FERULA. Z. 



Cato entire, or minute. Petals oblong, sub- 

 equal. Fruit suboval, dorsally compressed, 

 flat and marginated. Seals marked with 3 dor- 

 sal lines; ♦< intervals and commissure striate." 

 Sp. — Universal involucrum caducous; involucell 

 many-leaved. 



stems for the most part very tall; umbell and umbcllet 

 globose, many-rayed, many lateral umbells growing from 

 one terminal peduncle; leaves coroplicately pseudo-pinnate. 



