ISO 37. TJMBELLIFER3:. 38. HEDERACEJ3. 



distinguished "by its foetid smell, spotted stem, unilateral partial 

 involucres, and wavy crenate ridges of the fruit. Highly poison- 

 ous. Hedge-banks and waste places. B. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



39. PHYSOSPER'MTJM Cusson. 



1. P. commutdtum (Spreng.) ; radical 1. triternate, leaflets 

 wedge-shaped cut or deeply 3-lobed with acute segments, stem- 

 1. ternate lanceolate entire. E. B. 683. P. cornubierise (13C.J 

 ed. viii. St. 1 3 feet high, erect, round, striate, bearing a 

 few small ternate leaves with linear-lanceolate segments, the 

 uppermost represented by a barren lanceolate acute sheath. 

 Umbels terminal and axillary, long-stalked. Carp, longer than 

 broad ; the coat loose. Seed free. Devon and Cornwall, rare. 

 P. VII. VIII. E. 



40. SMYR'NIUM Linn. Alexanders. 



1. S. Olusdtrum (L.) ; st. terete, stem-1. ternate stalked ser- 

 rate. .#. B. 230. St. 34 feet high, stout, branched, leafy, 

 furrowed. Radical 1. very large, 3 4 times ternate ; all with 

 large membranous sheaths and large ovate shining cut and 

 serrate leaflets. Fl. greenish yellow in rounded often dense 

 umbels. Fr. nearly black, aromatic. Waste ground and near 

 juins. B.V.VL E.S.I. 



Suborder III. Ccelosperma. Tribe XIII. Coriandrea. 



41. CORIAN'DRUM Linn. Coriander. 



[1. C. sativum (L.). E. B. 67. St. 1218 in. high, leafy, 

 round, striate. L. bipinnate, cut, with broad roundish or wedge- 

 shaped segments; upper 1. more divided with linear segments. 

 FL white. Waste places, scarcely naturalized. A. VI.] E. S. 



Order XXXVIII. HEDERACE^E. 



Cal. 4 5-toothed, adnate to the ovary. Pet. 16, rarely 

 wanting ; valvate in the bud. Stam. as many as the pet. and 

 alternate with them or twice as many, inserted below the margin 

 of an epigynous disk. Ovary with 2 or more cells. Styles as 

 many as the cells. Fr. succulent or dry, of several cells each 

 with 1 pendulous seed. Perisperm fleshy. Embryo minute 

 (not so in our Hedera). L. alternate without stipules. 



