Order 67.— THE UMBELWORTS. 



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Fig. 4S3. Golden Alexanders, with its compound, naked umbel, &m. i. A flower enlarged. 

 5. The fruit with its thread-shaped ribs and two persistent styles. 6. Cross-section, showing tlie 

 two carpels with the oil-tubes and flat inner face. 7.. Umbel of Sweet Cicely, in fruit. S. A 

 flower enliirgod. 9. The fruit with the two carpels separating from the base and supported by a 

 two-clift stalk. Fig. 490. Summit of the fruit of Biiter Cicely. 1. Fruit of Poison Ileiiilock. 

 with the undulate-fienulate ribs. 2. Cross-section, showing the grooved inner face and invohile 

 albumen. 3. Radiate flower of Coriandrum. 4. Vertical section of the globose fruit, showing 

 the minute embryo. 



1. SANIC'ULA. Sanicle. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx teeth leafy, tube bristly. Petals obovate, 

 erect, with the point inflected. Fruit roundish, armed with hooked 

 prickles. Carpels without ribs. — n Plants l-2f. high. Umbel with a few 

 capitate umbellets. Involucre of few cleft bracts, involucel of several, 

 entire. June- Aug. 



1 S. Marylan'dica. Long-styled S. Sterile flowers many, pedicellate ; fertile flowers 



sessile. Styles slender, conspicuous, recurved. Leaves 5-7-parted. Common. 



2 S. Canaden'sis. IShort- styled S. Sterile fltiwers few, much shorter than the fertile. 



Styles shorter than the prickles. Leaves 5-parted, upper 8-parted. Unibeld 

 (or heads) small. Woods. Common. 



