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Cariim {Pimpinella) Anisum. 



There are some C arums whose vittae are 03casionally gemmated in 

 the furrows.' These species hereby connect themselves with Petro' 

 sciadium,^ more generally referred to the genus PlmpineUa, and may 

 have in each furrow one, two or three 

 vittge, sometimes more or less connected. 

 P////j9//?67/a ^ proper (fig. 121) differs from 

 the true Cariim only in the multiplicity of 

 vittae ; a character of no more value here 

 than elsewhere. Proof of this may be 

 found in the fruit of the Goutweeds {^^go- 

 podium ^), species of PlmpineUa and Carum 

 considered as having no vittae, but often 

 possessing rudiments of them more or less 

 incomplete and irregular. 



Bunium ^ is also among those plants 

 which intimately connect Garum with Pim- 

 pinella. Those called Bunioides^ have 

 numerous vittae, and thereby are connected 

 with the latter. Those, on the other hand, as Bulhocastanum,^ which 

 have solitary vittae in each furrow, approach much nearer to Carum 

 proper. Elvendia ^ is inseparable from the Buniums with solitary 

 vittae, as is also Huetia,^ whose seed is rather more concave within, 



Fig. 121. Fruit (f). 



near section of Falcan'a, Ljmatocanim Fisch. et 

 Mey {Ihd. Sem. Eort. Petrop. vi. 59), included 

 with Siiinum by Bentham and Hooker {Gen. 

 914), and differs from the Caraways only in the 

 length of the fruit. The vittae are solitary. 

 Notwithstanding its peculiar habit, we refer to 

 these types as a section Apiuin Fopei A. Gray, 

 which has been distinguished as a genus under 

 the name oi Ammoseli//um (Torr. et Gn. £xp. 

 Pope Rep. Bot. 165.— B. H. G>^n. 1009, n. 71 a). 

 It is an annual of western Texas, with decom- 

 pound leaves, a fruit rather more elongate than 

 those of Apii/m generally, with solitary vittae 

 and a carpophore often bipartite. On each side 

 of the face of the mericarp is a vertical thicken- 

 ing of whitish suberose tissue. The stylopods 

 are short and the petals entire. 



^ Or even ternate. Such are C. rupestre, 

 ffrcecum, multijlonim, Heldreic/iii, &c. 



2 Edgew. Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 51. — B. H. 

 Gen. 895. 



3 L. Gen. n. 3G6 (not T. nor Gii-aiTX.).— 



Koch, Umb. 120, fig. 65, 66.— DC. Mem. 42; 

 Prodr. iv. 119.— Exdl. Gen. n. 4410.— B. H. 

 Gen. 893, n. 62.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 684. 



4 L. Gen. n. 368. — Hoffm. Vmb. 82.— Koch, 

 Umh. 122.— DC. Prodr. iv. 114.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 4405.— B. H. Gen. 893, n. 61. — Podagraria Riv. 

 Pentap. t. 47.— M(ench. Meth. 89.— Lob. Icon. 

 t. 700, fig. 2. 



6 L. Gen. n. 335 (part).— DC. Prodr. iv. 115 

 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 4407 (part). 



6 B. H. Gen. 894. — Bunium Koch, Syn. Fl. 

 Germ. ed. 2, 315 (not L.).— DC. Prodr. iv. 15 

 (part). 



^ ScHUR, Enum. PL Trans. 249 (not Lag.). 



8 Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 140. 



9 Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 103 ; Fl. Or. ii. 

 897.— SiBTH, et Sm. FL Grcec. iii. 67, t. 274 

 {Freyera). Geocaryiim (Coss. et Dur. PL Nouv, 

 et Crit. d'Esp. 112) has the seeds of Carum, with 

 narrow conical stylopods and ought to be re- 

 ferred to this last genus (B. H. Gen. 891). 



