608 UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 



= -= Leaves decompound ; oil-tubes solitary or none; perennials. 



11. Aegopodium. Ribs equal, filiform. Oil-tubes none ; stylopodium conical. Leaves biternate 



12. Cicuta. Kibs flattish, corky, the lateral largest. Marsh plants. 



13. Carum. Kibs filiform, inconspicuous ; stylopodium sbort-conical. Leaf-segments filiform. 



Petals wnitc or roseate. 



14. Petroselinum. Ribs filiform, inconspicuous ; stylopodium short-conical. Leaf-segments 



incised. Petals greenish-yellow. 

 = = = Leaves once pinnate ; oil-tubes 6-many ; stylopodium depressed ; aquatic perennials. 



15. Berula. Fruit nearly globose ; ribs inconspicuous ; pericarp thick and corky. 



16. Slum. Fruit ovate to oblong ; ribs prominent, corky, nearly equal. 



= _= = = Leaves 3-foliolate ; stylopodium conical ; oil-tubes solitary, beneath and between the ribs 



17. Cryptotaenia. Ribs obtuse, equal; fruit linear-oblong, glabrous. 



^_ +. j_ Carpels terete or slightly flattened laterally ; petals golden yellow. 



18. Zizia. Fruit ovate to oblong ; ribs filiform ; stylopodium none ; seed terete. 



-t- -H -i- -i- Carpels depressed dorsally ; fruit short. 

 ++ Seed-face flat or nearly so ; petals mostly yellow. 



19. Foenlculum. Ribs prominent ; oil-tubes solitary. Leaves filiform-dissected. 



20. Pimpinella. Ribs filiform; oil-tubes numerous; stylopodium depressed-conical. Leaves 



pinnate. Petals white. 



21. Taenidia. Ribs filiform ; oil-tubes numerous ; stylopodium none. Leaves palmately com- 



pound. Petals yellow. 



■H- ++ Seed-face decidedly concave ; petals white (except in Bupleurum). 



= Leaves compound. 



a. Fruit beakless ; oil-tubes numerous. 



22. EulophUS. Stylopodium conical. Glabrous perennials from fascicled tubers. Leaves pin- 



nately compound. 

 &. Fruit (in ours) conspicuously beaked ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals or none ; leaves 2-3- 

 ternately or -pinnately divided. 



23. AnthriSCUS. Beak not more than one third to one half as long as the body of the fruit, smooth. 



24. Scandix. Beak much exceeding the body of the fruit, its margins upwardly hispid. 



== = Leaves entire. 



25. Bupleurum. Fruit oblong, with slender ribs, no oil-tubes, and prominent flat stylopodium. 



Leaves simple, perfoliate. 

 * * * Fruit not flattened either way or but slightly, neither prickly nor scaly. 

 +- Dorsal ribs filiform, the lateral very thick and corky ; oil-tubes solitary. 



26. LilaeopsiS. Small glabrous creeping perennials, rooting in the mud, vnth small simp.e 



umbels and leaves reduced to hollow cylindrical jointed petioles. 

 2T. Cynosciadium. Annuals with compound leaves and compound umbels. 



-i- +- Ribs all prominent and equal but not winged ; flowers white or roseate. 

 ++ Ribs acutish or rounded, narrower than the intervals between them. 



28. Ligusticum. Stoutish perennials. Leaves 2-4-ternate ; leaflets ovate, obovate, or oblong. 



29. Coriandrum. Slender annuals. Cauline leaves cleft or dissected into linear segments. 



-H- -M- Ribs thickish and corky, broader than the intervals. 



30. Aethusa. Slender annual with finely divided leaves. Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on 



the commissure. 



31. Coelopleurum. Stout maritime perennial. Oil-tubes under the ribs as well as in the inter 



vals, 2-4 on the commissure. 

 -t- -i- +- Ribs all conspicuously winged; stylopodium depressed or wanting; perennials. 



32. Cjrmopterus. Low and glabrous, mostly cespitose, with pinnately compound leaves and 



white flowers. Oil-tubes 1-several. Western. 



33. Thaspium. Tall, with ternately divided or simple leaves, and yellow flowers (rarely purple) 



Oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure. 



