UMBELLIFERJE. <2J(yi 



elevated than margin, often little prominent or scarcely perceptible. 

 Vittae in furrows solitary, the intrajugal also very thin often conspi- 

 cuous. Seed flat. Carpophore 2-partite. — Perennial herbs, glabrous 

 or more or less downy (Diicrosia) ; leaves generally subradical, pin- 

 nately or 3-nato-pinnately decompound ; bracts of involucres few, 

 often small, sometimes 0. (Levant, Baliuria}) 



16. Tordylium T.^ — Flowers^ generally with unequal or subequal 

 sepals, more rarely without sepals.* Petals generally radiating and 

 unequal ; the larger 2-lobed. Fruit oval-elliptical or oftener orbicular 

 coin-shaped, much compressed ; margin swollen to a ring thicker than 

 the cells, entire before dehiscence, suberose (white), transversely pli- 

 cato-rugose, rarely smooth. Mericarps dorsally flat or slightly convex ; 

 primary and dorsal intermediate ridges imperceptible or very thin ; 

 secondary sometimes (Ormosciadium ^) also slightly prominent.^ Vittaa 

 in furrows solitary or 2-nate, more rarely oo {PolytceniaJ Gondijlo- 

 carpus^). Seed very flat. Carpophore 2-partite. — Annual or more 

 rarely perennial herbs, often woolly or hairy ; leaves simple, pinnate or 

 pinnately decompound ; bracts of involucres or involucels oo , various 

 in form, sometimes linear-elongate, or more rarely 0. {Europe, north. 

 Africa, temp, ivest. and central Asia, north. America.^) 



17. Angelica T.'^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; sepals 



^ Spec, about 10. Jaub. et Spach, III. PI. Or, is not to be accepted. In Synelcosciadium (Boiss. 



t. 238(Zo2;/V«a).— Boiss. Dmp^w. Or. ser. 2,v. 99; Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 345; Fl. Ot-.n. 1050) 



\\. 80 ; Fl. Or. ii. 1010, 1036 {Ducrosia). — Walp. as in Hasselquistia^ the margins of the mericarps 



Mep. ii. 891 {Ducrosia), 892 ; Ann. i. 364 ; ii. are less swollen, but the carpels, as in the true 



712. Tordylia, are complanate. 



' Inst. 320, t. 170.— L. Gen. n. 330.— DC. ? DC. Mem. 53, t. 13; Frodr.\\. 196.— Lamk, 



Prodr. iv. 197.— Endl. Gen. n. 4482.— B. H. III. t. 193.— Endl. Gen. n. 4479.— B. H. Gen. 



Gen. 924, n. 134. 922, n. 129. 



* White, yellow or purplish. * Hoffm. TTmb. 202. 



*■ E. g. Ainsworthia (Boiss. Ann. Se. Nat. ^ Spec. 12-14. Sibth. Fl. Grac. t. 267. — 



ser. 3, i. 343 ; Biapn. Or. ser. 2, v. 100 ; Fl. Or. Desf. Fl. Jtl. t. 58.— Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. 



ii. 1034). In other respects not separable t 1978-1980.— A. Gkay, Man. (ed. 5) 191.— 



generically from Hasselquistia. Jaub. et Spach, III. Pi. Or. t. 237. — Gren. et 



» Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ii. 95 ; Fl. Or. Godk. Fl. de Fr. i. 697.— Walp. Rep. ii. 447 ; 



ii. 1029.— B.. H. Gen. 925, n. 136.— Hormo- v. 891 {Synelcosciadium), 894 {Ainsworthia), 895, 



sciadinm Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. p. iii. 16. 923 (Ormosciadium) ; Ann. ii. 713. 



« Hasselquistia (L. Gen. n. 341.— DC. Prodr. i» Imt. 313, t. 167.— L. Gen.n. 347.— Hoffm. 



iv. 197.— JAca. Hort. Vindob. t. 87, 193.— Umb. t. 158.— Koch, Umb. 99.— DC. Prodr. iv. 



Koch, Umb. 88.— Endl. Gen. n. 4481). The 167 (part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 4456.— B. H. Gen. 



fruits come out partly in different forms, espe- 916, n. 121. — H. Bx. Adansonla,x\i. 176. Hook. 



cially the central ; one mericarp being aborted, FL Ind. ii. 706. — Gingidium Forst. Char. Gen. 



the other assumes a sub-spherical cup or flask 41, t. 21. — Osterieum Hoffm. Umb. 162. DC. 



shape. But the normal fruit is quite that of Prodr. iv. 167. — Gomphopetalum Turcz. Bull. 



Tordylium; hence the autonomy of the genus Mosc. (1841), 637. — Callisaee Fisch. Hoffm. 



