THE FLORA. 



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

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

 two carpel? with the oil-tubes and flat inner face. 7. Umbel of Sweet Cicely, in fruit. 8. A 

 flower enlarged. 9. The fruit with the two carpels separatinsr from the base and supported by a 

 two-cleft stalk. Fig. 490. Summit of the fruit of Bitter Cicely. 1. Fruit of Poison Hemlock, 

 with the undulate-oreni;late ribs. 2. Cross-section, showing the grooved inner face and involute 

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

 the minute embryo. 



1. SANIO'ULA. Sanicle. 



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

 erect, witli tlie point inflected. Fruit roundish, armed witli hooked 

 prickles. Carpels without ribs. — if 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-styleA S. Sterile flowers many, pedicellate ; fertile flowers 



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



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



Styles shorter than the prickles. Leaves 5-parted, upper 3-parted. Umbels 

 (or heads) small. Woods. Common. 



