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ornament of the plant. In ARIS.EMA (the Cobra- 

 plant) it is marked with brown lines and bends over 

 the spadix, in ANTHURIUM it is often a bright red 

 colour. 



(iv) The umbel 

 when as in CRINUM, 

 EUCHARIS, D^MIA 

 EXTENSA (fig. 58). 



HER ACLEUM the 

 Hemlock, PASTI- 

 NACIA the Parsnip, 

 CORIANDRUM the 

 Coriander, and 

 others, the pedicels 

 spring from the 

 same level, as if the 

 internodes between 

 them, i.e. of the 

 peduncle were re- 

 duced to nothing 

 (fig. 46). In CRI- 

 NUM, EUCHARIS, 

 AGAPANTHUS and 

 other monocoty- 

 ledons, the umbel is 

 borne on a scape and 



is at first enclosed in a large spathe ; in D^EMIA (fig. 58) 

 and others of the ASCLEPIAD family, umbels occur 

 short peduncles in the axils of the leaves of the 

 shoot without any enclosing bract. In HERACLEUM, 

 PASTINACEA and a number of other plants like them, 

 there is a whorl of bracts at the point where the 



Fruit 



FIG. 46 

 HERACLEUM SPRENGELIANUM. W. & A 



