GENUS 22. 



CARROT FAMILY. 



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22. BUPLEURUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 236. 1753. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with simple entire clasping or perfoliate leaves, and compound 

 umbels of yellow or greenish-yellow flowers. Involucre none in our species. Involucels of 

 5 ovate mucronate bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals broad, the apex inflexed or infolded. 

 Stylopodium conic. Styles short. Fruit oblong or oval, somewhat compressed laterally. 

 Carpels angled, with slender equal ribs; oil-tubes none in our species. Seed-face concave. 

 [Greek, ox-ribbed, referring to the leaves.] 



About 65 species of wide geographic distribution. Besides the following another occurs in 

 the Rocky Mountains and northwestern America. Type species : Bupleurum rigidum L. 



i. Bupleurum rotundifolium L. 



Hare's Ear. Thorough-wax or 



-wort. Modesty. Fig. 3133. 



Bupleurum rotundifolium L. Sp. PI. 236. 1753. 



Annual, erect, rather stiff, branching, 

 glabrous, pale, i-2 high. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, or oval, mostly obtuse, mucronate, 

 I'-ii' long, perfoliate, or the lowest nar- 

 rowed into a petiole ; umbels terminal, 3-6- 

 rayed, the rays seldom over 4" long; bracts 

 of the involucels about as long as the rays, 

 yellowish ; fruit glabrous, about li" long. 



In cultivated fields, New Hampshire to 

 North Carolina, west to South Dakota, Ten- 

 nessee, Kansas and Arizona. Naturalized 

 from Europe. July-Aug. 



Bupleurum Odontites L., also European, 

 with narrowly linear leaves, is recorded as 

 found in Massachusetts. 



23. THASPIUM Nutt. Gen. i : 196. 1818. 

 Perennial herbs, with ternate or ternately compound leaves, or the basal ones some- 

 times undivided, and compound umbels of yellow or purple flowers. Involucre none, or 

 of 1-3 bracts. Involucels of several small bracts. Calyx-teeth prominent, acute. Stylopo- 

 dium none. Style slender. Fruit ovoid or oblong, glabrous or nearly so, scarcely flattened. 

 Carpels somewhat dorsally flattened, the ribs or at least some of them strongly winged; 

 oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissural side. Seed-face flat. [Name in- 

 directly from the island Thapsus.] 



Only the following species, natives of eastern North America. Type species : Thaspium 

 aureum Nutt. 



Leaves mostly ternate ; segments crenate, thickis'h. 



Leaves mostly biternate ; segments incised or lobed, rather thin. i. T. trifoliatum. 



Segments ovate, incised. 2. T. barbinode. 



Segments pinnatifid into oblong lobes. 3- T.pinnatifidum. 



i. Thaspium trifoliatum (L.) Britton. Purple Meadow-Parsnip. Fig. 3134. 



Thapsia trifoliaia L. Sp. PI. 262. _ 1753. , 



Smyrnium atropurpureum Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 3 : 667. 



1 789. 



Thaspium aureum Nutt. Gen. i 196. 1818. 

 Thaspium atropurpureum Nutt. Gen. i : 196. 1818. 

 T. trifoliatum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 240. 1894. 

 Thaspium trifoliatum aureum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 



5: 240. 1894. 



Glabrc'/s throughout; stems erect, more or less 

 branchet, i-2 high. Upper stem-leaves short-peti- 

 oled, terriate, or rarely biternate, the segments ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, i'-2' long, crenate-dentate all 

 around; basal leaves long-petioled, sometimes undi- 

 vided; umbels i'-2' broad; petals dark purple or 

 yellow ; fruit 2" long, all the ribs usually winged. 



In woods, Rhode Island to Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, 

 Missouri, Arkansas and Wyoming. Purple alexanders. 

 Round-heart. The purple-flowered and yellow-flowered 

 races are apparently, otherwise indistinguishable. June- 

 July. 



