UMBELLIFER^. 201 



in fruit much incurved connivent; bracts of involucre spinescent 

 accrete rigid unequal ; of involucels oo ; the exterior oftener rigidly 

 spinescent and long open.^ {The East.^) 



4. Cuminum L.^ — Flowers oftener hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 tubular. Sepals 5, unequal subulate. Petals unequal. Fruit oblong, 

 pointed top and bottom, laterally sub-compressed. Mericarps sub- 

 terete, shghtly constricted at commissure, somewhat compressed dor- 

 sally. Primary ridges 5, equal, filiform, scarcely prominent, either 

 glabrous {Trepocarpus '^) , or, with the secondary, oftener papillose- 

 hispid (Eucuminum); secondary generally stronger subequal-linear, 

 sometimes indurate (Trepo carpus), Yittae under secondary ridges 

 soKtary thin or thick. Stylopods small, depressed conical. Seed 

 semiterete, face rather concave. — Annuals, sometimes odorous, 

 slender ; leaves pinnately decompound or ternately dissected, glabrous ; 

 segments linear ; umbels ^ compound ; bracts and bracteoles of invo- 

 lucres and involucels slender or setaceous, entire or more rarely 3-fid. 

 (The East, N. America,^) 



5. Artedia L.^ — Flowers nearly of Daucus ; petals generally very 

 unequal.^ Germen dorsally much compressed ; stylopods pulvinate 

 or depressed conical, oftener entire at margin. Fruit oval, much 

 compressed at septum ; margins (in secondary lateral ridges) expanded 

 to a wing continuous with flat commissure and deeply divided into 

 obtrapezoidal spathulate lobes. All the primary and the dorsal 

 secondary ridges linear slightly prominent. Vittse under secondary 

 ridges solitary, broad,- thin or subnil. Carpophore 2-fid or 2-partite ; 



1 A plant" hence in fruit analogous to Cona?i- Prodr. iv. 201.— Ekdl. Gen. n. 4489.— B. H. 

 drum, in inflorescence to Daiicus and Ammiopsis, Gen. 926, n. 14]. 



from its spinescent bracts of carduaceous ap- ° Flowers white. 



pearance not unlike also some Echinophorce. ^ Spec. 2, one of which very common, very 



2 Spec. 1. E. heterophylla Labill.— Boiss. Fl. likely the C. Gyminum L. cultivated everywhere 

 Or. ii. 1069. in the East. (See p. 188, note 4.) 



3 Gen. n. 351.— J. Gen. 221.— Lamk. Diet. ii. ^ Gen. n. 332.— Lamk. Diet, i, 276; III. t. 173. 

 224 ; III. 1. 194.— G^RTX. Fruct. i. 107, t. 23.— — Spreng. Umb. Prodr. 18.— Lag. Amoen. ii. 90. 

 Spreng. Prodr. Umbell. 25.— Koch, Umbell. 81. Koch, Umb. 76, fig. 9, 10.— DC. Prodr. iv. 208 ; 

 — HoFFM. Unvbell. ed. 2, 194.— DC. Prodr. iv. Mem. t. 19, fig. 7.— Endl. Gen. n. 4495.— B.H. 

 201 (part).— Spach, Suit, cl Buffon, viii. 149,— Gen. 927, n. 144. 



Enbl. Gen. n. 4488. — B. H. Gen. 926, n. 140. — » The more external of the outer flowers 



Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 717. longest, white. 



4 NuTT. ex DC. Mem. Ombell. 56, t. 14; 



