VOL. II.] 



CARROT FAMILY 



3. Washingtonia divaricata Brit- 

 ton. Western Sweet Cicely. 

 (Fig. 2682.) 



Osmorrhiza divaricata Nutt; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 

 i: 639. Name only. 1840. 



Foliage pubescent; stem slender, 2-3high > 

 widely branched above; leaf-segments thin, 

 ovate, acute, or acuminate, coarsely toothed 

 and usually incised, %'-2 1 /^' long; umbels 

 long-peduncled, 3-6-rayed, the very slender 

 divaricate rays 2 / -4 / long in fruit; involucels 

 of 1-3 subulate bracts, or commonly none; 

 pedicels very slender, a"-!' long; fruit about 

 6" long, i /x wide or rather more, beaked; 

 style and stylopodium only X" long, t^ 6 

 stylopodium slender-conic. 



Manitoba to South Dakota, British Columbia 

 and California. May-June. 



30. SCANDIX L. Sp. PI. 256. 1753. 



Annual herbs, with pinnately dissected leaves, the lobes very narrow. Flowers white, in 

 compound several-rayed (rarely i-rayed) umbels. Involucre none, or rarely of i bract. In- 

 volucels of several entire lobed or dissected bracts. Calyx-teeth minute or obsolete. Petals 

 mostly unequal, the outer larger. Fruit linear, or linear-oblong, flattened laterally, pro- 

 longed into a beak mostly much longer than the body; primary ribs prominent; secondary 

 ribs none; oil-tubes solitary, or wanting. Seed-face sulcate. Stylopodium short. [Greek 

 name of the plant.] 



About 10 species, natives of the Old World. 



i. Scandix Pecten-V6neris I,. 

 Venus' -or Lady's-comb. Shep- 

 herd' s-needle. (Fig. 2683.) 



Scandix Pecten- Veneris 1,. Sp. PI. 256. 1753. 



Pubescent, stem 6 / -i8 / high, branched, the 

 branches ascending. Leaves 2-3-pinnately 

 dissected, the lobes acute, less than y 2 " wide; 

 lower leaves long-petioled; involucre none; in. 

 volucels of several lanceolate bracts sometimes 

 2-3-lobed at the apex; flowers very nearly ses- 

 sile; fruiting carpels 4 // -6 // long, strongly 

 ribbed, terminated by a straight flat beak \}/ 2 '- 

 2^' long, about \" wide, its edges with stiff 

 ascending hairs. 



In waste places, northern New Jersey and in 

 ballast about the sea- ports. Fugitive from Eu- 

 rope or Asia. May-July. Old English names, 

 Pink or Adam's Needles, Beggar's-, Crake- or 

 Crow-needles, Devil's Darning Needle?, Hedge- 

 hog, Needle-Chervil, Poukenel. 



31. CONIUM L. Sp. PI. 243. 1753. 



Tall biennial glabrous herbs, with spotted stems, pinnately decompound leaves, and 

 small white flowers in compound many-rayed umbels. Involucre and involucels of ovate 

 acuminate bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals obcordate, or entire with a short inflexed 

 point; fruit broadly ovate, glabrous, somewhat flattened laterally. Carpels strongly wavy- 

 ribbed; large oil-tubes none, but a layer of oil-secreting tissue next the deeply concave 

 seed. [Greek, hemlock.] 



Two species, one of them native of Europe and Asia, the other of Africa. 



