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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



vertical furrow. They are perennial herbs, very aromatic, resembling 

 certain ChcerophijUa. One is European ; the leaves are decompound, 

 bi- or tripinnate. In a second species, from North America, type of 



the genus Glycosma, the leaves are bi- or tripinnate. 



We unite to it as a section Osmorhiza, from the 



Ysame country as Ghjcosma, and similar to it, but 

 with very numerous vittse, sometimes very thin or 

 almost nil. 



Myrrhis odorata. 



Scandix Pecten 

 Veneris. 



Fig. 154. Fruit (f). 



Fig. 155. Trans, sect, of fruit. 



Analogous to the preceding genera, Scandix is 

 thought to differ from them by its narrower and 

 more elongate fruit, prolonged above the cells in a 

 long slender beak surmounted by the stylopods and 

 styles (fig. 156). The carpels, nearly round, have 

 obtuse ridges and solitary vittae or none. They are 

 annual herbs of the north temperate zone of the old 

 w^orld. The umbels are compound and the involucre 

 is nil or formed of a single bract. The flowers are 

 most frequently polygamous. 



In Ottoa, a perennial plant of Columbia and 

 Mexico, the flowers and fruit are nearly those of Chcerophyllum ; the 



Fig. 156. Fruit (?). 



