202 NATURAL RISTORY OF PLANTS. 



face of seed flat or nearly so. — Annuals; habit leaves and inflorescence 

 of Damns ; bracts of involucre and involucels oo , linear or setaceo - 

 lobed. (West, Asia.^) 



6. Laserpitium T.^ — Flowers nearly of Daiicus ; sepals very small 

 or 0. Stylopods conical or depressed, not or scarcely marginate. 

 Fruit oblong ; commissure not or slightly constricted ; primary ridges 

 scarcely visible or linear ; secondary expanded to vertical entire or 

 sinuate or dentate and oftener undulate wings. Lateral wings ^ gene- 

 rally broader than dorsal and continuous with flat commissure. Vittee 

 under secondary ridges solitary.* Carpophore 2-partite. Face of 

 seed flat or more or less concave. — Perennial herbs ; leaves pinnately 

 or temately decompound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , 

 linear or membranous.^ {Europe, west. Asia, north. Africa.^) 



7. Thapsia T.' — Flowers^ nearly oi Laserpitium ; sepals small or 

 scarcely visible. Stylopods various, small or conical, sometimes 

 marginate or undulate. Fruit ovately oblong, dorsally compressed ; 

 secondary lateral ridges dilated to broad wings ; dorsal linear or pro- 

 duced to narrow wings ; ^ primary filiform scarcely prominent. Face 

 of seed complanate (Euthapsia), or oftener deeply sulcate or involute 

 (Elceoselinum ^°). — Perennial or dicarpic herbs ; leaves pinnately de- 

 compound ; segments inciso-pinnatifid or setaceous ; umbels com- 

 pound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , narrow, sometimes 

 few or 0. {Meditetr. reg., Madeira. ^^) 



1 Spec. 1. A. squamata L. Sp c 347.— Sibth. Germ. t. 1985-1996.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 1014.— 

 FL Gr<Bc. t. 268.— Jaub. et Spach, III. Or. t. Gkex. et Godr. FL de Fr. i. 679.— Walp. Eep. 

 430.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 1070.— ^mmi anethifo- ii. 418; v. 896; Ann. ii. 715; iii. 899 {Guillo- 

 Hum Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 246 (not Lamk.). nea). 



2 Inst. 324, t. 172.— L. Ge7i. n. 344 (part).— 7 T. Inst. 321, t. 171.— L. Gen.n. 361.— Koch, 

 Spreng. Frodr. Umh. 17. — Koch, Umb. 74. — Uinb. 74. — DC. Frodr. iv. 202. — Endl. Gen. n. 

 HG.Frodr. iv. 204.— Endl. Gen.n. 4492,— B.H. 4490.— B. H. Gen. 930, n. 151 (part). 



Gen. 'd2^, n. 149.— 6'i/er Mcench. il/e^A. 164.— « White, yellowish or purplish. 



? Laser Baumg. Enum. PL Trans, t. 227 (ex B. » Sometimes also (abnormally) rather broad. 



YL.)—GuiUoH€a Coss. FL Nouv. E^p. 199 (ex i" Koch, LG. Frodr. iv. 215.— ExVdl. Gen. 



B. H.). n. 4498.— B. H. Gen. 930, n. l52.—Marffotia 



^ Sometimes all imperfect or decayed. Boiss. Flench. FL Hlsp. Atistr. 52 ; Voy. 263, t. 



■* Vittae sometimes also very thin in the pri- 79. 



mary ridges. ii Spec about 7. Desf. Ft. AU. t. 69, 72 



• Flowers white or yellowish. (^Laserpitium).— ^mi^. Fl. Grcec. t. 286, 287.— 



« Spec, about 18. Jacq. FLAuitr. t. 145, 146, Bertol. FL Ital. iii. 383.— Boiss. Voy. Eap. t. 



153 ; Ic. Far. t. 58, 350.— Cav. Icon. t. 190.— 76-79 {Eloeoseliimm) ; Fl. Or. ii. 1007, 106^ 



Desf. Fl.Atl. t. 75 (TAff^itrt).— Waldst. et Kit. {ElcBosclinum).—WALY. Eep. ii. 417, 420 (£/ceo- 



■ FL liar. Hung. t. 192, 253.— Reich b. r. Icon. FL sclinum). 



