UMBELLIFERM. 



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the ridges of which the pedicels which hear the flowers of the following 

 generation are connate in their lower part; these may sometimes 

 he fertile but are much more frequently male or sterile. 



The place in this family of Lagoecia cuminoides (fig. 183, 184), an 

 annual of the entire Mediterranean region, with the habit and foliage 

 of many Umhelliferce, especially of Oliveriaj has been much contested. 



Lagoecia cuminoides. 



Fig. 183. Flower (f). 



Fiof, 184. Lon^. sect, of flower. 



This is because its ovary with a single fertile cell, which is anterior, 

 is surmounted by a simple style, which is posterior, and an epigynous 

 eccentric disk surrounded by, besides the corolla and androecium, five 

 long straight sepals, divided at the margin into five aristate slips. 



YI. AEALIA SERIES. 



Though generally considered as belonging to a family distinct from 

 that of the Umhelliferce, Aralia' (fig. 185-190), as we shall see, can 

 only constitute a section of it. The greater part have flowers in 

 pentamerous verticils. The receptacle also, in form a deep ovoid 



1 T. Inst. 300, t. 154.— L. Gen. n. 386 (part). 

 —J. Gen. 218 (part).— Lamk. Diet. i. 223 ; 

 Suppl. i. 416 (part).— DC. Prodr. iv. 257.— 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, viii. 119.— Endl. Gen.n. 

 4558 (part).— Payek, Organog. 409, t. 89.— 



DcNE. et Pl. Rtv.Hort. (1854) 104.— B. H. Gen. 

 936, n. 4.— C. Koch, Wochenschr. (1864) 369.— 

 Seem. Journ. of Bot. vi. 133.— H. Bn. Payer 

 Fam. Nat. 338; Adansoma, tl\\. 135, 162, 163, 

 164.— Hook. Fl. Lid. ii. 721. 



