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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Peucedanum Falimbia. 



Fencedanum {Bubon) 

 Galbanum. 



Selinoides,^ which comprises herbaceous species, with numerous invo- 



lucral bracts. The inyohicre is the same in Cervaria,^ in which, on 



the other hand, the margin of the fruit is tliicker and narrower. 



These two marginal conditions of the carpels are 



met with in the section Eupeucedanum,^ where the 



involucre disappears, as in the Parsnip. In Tom- 

 masinia,'^ the fruit is in con- 

 struction like that of the Selu 

 noides : but the two wings of 

 the same side fall off early, 

 which gives the fruit some re- 

 semblance to that of the Jn- 

 gelicas, of which Tommasinia 

 has also the foliage,^ and which 

 has given its name^ to the 

 section of the genus Peuce- 

 danum in which it has been 

 ranged. The calyx is deve- 

 loped, like that of Archemora'' 

 and Tiedmaimia,^ American 

 Peiicedans whose fruit has 



rather large but contiguous wings. 



Thus conceived,^ the great genus Peucedanum comprises about a 



Fig. 89. Fruit (f). 



Fig. 90. Long. sect, of 

 fruit (I). 



1 DC. Frodr. iv. ISO.— HJ acroselinum Schur, 

 Enum. PI. Trams. 266. 



2 GiERTN. Fnict. 1. t. 21, fig. 10.— Gaud. FL 

 Helv. ii. 324.— DC. Prodr. iv. 179. 



3 G^RTN. loc. cit. — DC. loc. cit. 176. — It ap- 

 pears to us as difficult to separate generically 

 from Eupeucedanum as from the Peucedans or 

 even from Ferulago, Falimbia (Bess. Emcm. FL 

 Volhyn. 55. — DC. Frodr. iv. 175), not only the 

 greater number of species of this genus which 

 have been alreadj'- referred to Feucedamtm {Fa- 

 limbioidea Boiss.), but even the type itself (fig. 

 90), that is F. salsa Bess. {Sion salsnm L. f. — 

 Ferula salsa Ledeb. —Agasyllis salsa Sprexg. — 

 Feifcedanum redivivum Pall.) which the most 

 recent authors have preserved as a distinct genus 

 (BoTss. Fl. Or. ii. 982). Its vittae are not 

 solitary in the furrows ; which brings this plant 

 also near most of the Fendas. 



'* Bertol. Fl. Ital. iii. 414. Boissier {FL Or. 

 ii. 979) preserves this genus distinct, believes it 

 identical with Xanthogalum Lallem. (p. 98, 

 note 3). Ormcsolcnia TArscH {Flora [1834], 348), 



approaches both this section of Fupeucedanum 

 and Fastinaca. 



5 It is nearly the same as Forphyroscias 

 decursiva Miq. {Ann. Mas. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 62), 

 the fruit of which has been compared to that of 

 the Angelicas and which in fact much resembles 

 it, so far as we have been able to judge from xm- 

 ripe specimens, but the mericarps are united at 

 the margins before maturity and leave between 

 them on each side a false cell, as in Fastinaca, 

 &c. 



^ Angelicoides DC. Frodr. iv. 181. — Euryptera 

 NuTT. Torr. et Gr. FL N.-Amer. i. 629. — Impe- 

 ratoria Koch, Vmb. 95 (not of others). 



7 DC. Prodr. iv. 188; Mem. Ombell. 52.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 4472.— Torr. FL N.-York, t. 37. 

 — OxypoUs Eafin, Ser. Bull. Bot. i. 217 (part). 

 — Neurophyllum Torr. et Gr. FL N.-Amer. i. 

 612.— Chapm. fl S. Un. St. 165. 



8 DC. Prodr. iv. 187; Mem. 51, t. 12.— Endl. 

 Gen. n. 4471. — OxypoUs Eafin. (part). 



9 Keichr. f. Ic. fl Germ. t. 1944-1948, 1986 

 {Ferula), 1949-1968.— Sibth. FL Grac. t. 277; 



