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involucel simple and slender. Its fruit is narrow, elongate, slightly 

 compressed laterally, and the primary and secondary ridges are all 

 visible, but little prominent, especially the former. They are covered 



Cuminum Cymvium. 



Fig. 70. Fruit (?). 



Fig. 71. Trans, sect, of fruit ('|). 



Artedia squamata. 



with very fine papillae. It is an oriental plant, frequently cultivated 

 in both worlds, the true origin of which is uncertain. We refer to 

 this genus as a section, the American herb, Trepocarpus, a glabrous 

 annual. 



Artedia (fig. 72) is the type of an- 

 other subseries (Artediem), in which the 

 flowers, having a very irregular corolla, 

 are, in other respects, similar to those 

 of the Carrots. The fruit is ovoid, 

 with the primary and secondary ridges 

 linear and little prominent, with the 

 exception of two lateral which, in each 

 carpel, are developed to a large vertical 

 wing, cut into deep oboval or obtra- 

 pezoid lobes. A. squamata is a glabrous 

 annual from the East and northern 

 Africa, the inflorescence of which is equally that of Daucus, 



Fig. 72. Fruit (f). 



