MACLOSKIE: UMBELLIFER/E. 619 



(Eurasia and N. Amer.) ; S. Patagon., by Rio Chico ; Magellan; N. 

 and E. Fuegia. 



HlPPURIS VULGARIS FLUVIATILIS Hoffm. 



Leaves longer, membranaceous. In rather deep watery places, from 

 which the sterile plant rarely emerges. Perennial. N. Fuegia. (Dusen.) 



Family 80. ARALIACE.E. Ginseng Family. 



Herbs or woody plants, with superior, 5-merous flowers, often in um- 

 bels. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, supporting the petals and isome- 

 rous stamens. Ovary i to several-celled, with as many styles. Cells i- 

 seeded. Fruit a berry or drupe. Endosperm large. 



Species 450, in temperate and tropical countries. 



PSEUDOPANAX K. Koch. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs, with digitate and simple leaves on the same 

 plant, or all simple. Flowers in compound umbels or racemes. Pedicels 

 jointed under the flowers. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit fleshy, enclosing pyrenes. 



Species 6, Chili and New Zealand, and the following : 



P. L,ETEVIRENS Gay. 



Umbels panicled. Leaves 5-digitate, their leaflets long-lanceolate, finely 

 serrate. 



W. Magellan, and Northwards ; at Lago Nahuel-huapi. 



Family 81. UMBELLIFER^E. Carrot Family. 



Herbs with small, epigynous, 5-merous flowers in compound, or rarely 

 simple umbels. Umbels and their umbellules mostly with involucres and 

 involucels. Calyx-tube wholly adhering to the ovary and supporting the 

 petals ; calyx-limb represented by 5 minute teeth or obsolete. Ovary 2- 

 celled, surrounded by a disk (stylopodium), whence arise the 5 stamens and 

 the 2 styles. Ovtiles i in each cell, pendulous from the septal carpophore. 

 Pericarp with ribs, wings and oil-tubes. Embryo minute, in large 

 endosperm. 



Species 1,600, cosmopolitan, abounding in the tropics. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 







(Be careful to secure the fruit.) 



A. Fruit having woody fibrous endocarp. No free carpophore. No oil-tubes at least in the fur- 

 rows. Umbels usually simple. 



