PARSLEY FAMILY 227 



b. Flowers white to purplish A. ibapense 



2. Stem lacking; flowers yellowish-purple; fruit 8- 



10 mm. long A. purpureum 



BERULA Hoffmann 1821 



(The Latin name of the water-cress) 



PL 35, fig. 16. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth inconspicuous, petals 

 5, white, stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium conic, fruit nearly globose, 

 the ribs thin, oil-tubes many and close together on the commissure side; 

 flowers in compound umbels with both involucre and involucels ; leaves pin- 

 nate; stemmed aquatic or marsh perennial. 

 Stems .5-3 ft. high; leaflets 7-19, ovate to linear-ob- 

 long; fruits about 1.5 mm. long B.erecta 



BUPLEURUM Linne 1753 

 (Gr. bous, ox, pleuron, side, rib, from the ribbed leaves) 



PL 35, fig. 14. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth none, petals 5, yellow or 

 greenish-yellow, stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium conic, fruit oblong 

 or oval, slightly compressed, carpels angled with thin equal ribs, oil-tubes 

 none; flowers in compound umbels with conspicuous involucels; leaves 

 simple, entire, clasping or perfoliate ; stemmed annual or perennial. 

 Leaves oblong to lanceolate or linear, more or less 



clasping B. americdnum 



CARUM Linne 1753 CARAWAY 

 (The Greek name of the caraway) 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth tiny, petals 5, white, 

 stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium conic, fruit ovate or oblong, some- 

 what flattened, carpels somewhat 5-sided, the ribs thin or none, oil-tubes 

 solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure side; flowers in compound 

 umbels ; leaves pinnate or ternate ; stemmed biennial or perennial. 



1 . Leaves once-pinnatifid ; native C. Gairdneri 



2. Leaves twice-pinnatifid ; cultivated or escaped as 



a weed C. cdrui 



CICUTA Linne 1753 

 (The Latin name) 

 PL 35, fig. 12. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth small, petals 5, white, 

 stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium low conic, fruit ovate to oblong, 



