TJMBELLIFBRJEl. 213 



annuals ; ^ leaves pinnately dissected ; lacinise generally narrow and 

 short ; rays of compound umbels oo ; bracts of involucre and involucels 

 GO , linear, more rarely in involucre broader foliaceous and dissected.^ 

 (Levant.^) 



27. (Enanthe T.* — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; sepals 

 generally acute, finally somewhat rigid or more rarely (Dastjloma,^ 

 FhcUandrium,^ Crantzia'^) more slender, not accrescent, more rarely 

 deciduous. Petals emarginate, 2-lobed or more rarely entire {Gyno- 

 sciadlunf), Stylopods short or oftener long-conical, sometimes depressed 

 [Grantzia), at base entire or undulate. Fruit obovoid, transversely 

 subterete or rather compressed at back (Eurijtcenia ^). All ridges 

 obtuse suberose (Eaxnanthe^'^^ PheUanlrliim, Gijmsciadium) or slightly 

 prominent (Sclerosciadiiim^'^); the lateral sometimes thicker (Grantzia) 

 or 3-angular very thick (Discopleum ^^), sometimes broader aliform 

 {Banco sma^^) or approximate (Eurytcenia) ; the dorsal sometimes more 

 acute ; the intermediate linear (Eurytcenia). Carpophore 0, or scarcely 

 visible (Euoenanthe, Crantzia), sometimes 2-fid or 2 -partite {Gynoscia' 

 dliim, Discopleitra, Eurytcenia), more rarely simple or duplex (Sclero- 

 sciadium). Vittse in furrows solitary, sometimes also intrajugal very 

 thin. Face of seed generally flat. — Glabrous often aquatic herbs ; 

 leaves pinnate or pinnately compound, sometimes digitately {Gyno- 

 sciadium) or ternately decompound, rarely reduced to linear or terete 

 transversely nodose-septate petiole {Grantzia); umbels ^^ simple 

 {Grantzia), or oftener compound; bracts of involucres and involucels 

 small or linear, sometimes 3-5 -sect {Eurytcenia, Discopleura), often few 

 or ; rays of sterile flowers sometimes {Actinanthus ^^) indurate or 

 spinescent and coalescing with fruit. {Temp, regions of both worlds?^) 



1 Goatlike odour. 27.— Endl. Gen. n. 4356.— B. H. Gen. 906, n. 14. 



2 A genus hence oWiedL to Peueedanum sect. » DC. ilfe;«. 44, 1. 11 ; Prorf>-. iv. 140. — Endl. 

 Anethum, thence to Diseojjleura, by its rather Gen. n. 4423. — B. H. Gen, 906, n. 95. 



short fruit and the concavity of its mericarps ^ Torr. et Gr. FL N.-Amer. i. 623. — Endl. 



somewhat resembling Coriandrum sativum and Gen^n. 4479^ (Suppl. i. 1414). — B. H. Gen. 907f 



allied species. n. 97. 



3 Spec. 4, ex Boiss. Fi. Or. ii. 1027.— Walp. ^^ B. H. Gen.'QOS, 1. 



Hep. ii. 427. " Koch, DC. Prodr. iv. 140 ; Mem. 43, t. 1.— 



-♦ Inst. 312, t. 166.— L. Gen. n. 352.— J. Gen. B. H. Gen. 1009, n. 101. 

 221.— Lamk. Diet. iv. 526 ; III. t. 203.— Koch, ^^ T>C.Mem. 38, t. 8, 9 ; Prodr. iv. 106.— Endl. 



Umb. 112.— DC. Prodr. iv. 136.— Spach, Suit. d. Gen. n. 439^— B. H. Gen. 906, n. 96.— P«i^/OT- 



Buff. viii. 205.— ExDL. Gen. n. 4418.— B. H. Gen. nium Rafin. Ser. Bull. Bot. 217. 

 905. — H. Bn. A.Mnsonia, xii. 174. — Hook. Ft. '^ Engelm. et Gr. PL Lindheim. Post. Journ. 



Ind. ii. 695. Nat. Hist. vi. 210. 



^ DC. Prodr. iv. UO.— Cj/ssopetalum TuRCz. i-* Flowers oftener white, sometimes yellow. 



Bull. Mosc. (1849) ii. 25. ^* Ehrenb. Zinr.cea, iv. 398.— B. H. Gen.903y 



6 T. Inst. 306, t. 161.— L. Gen. n. 353. n. 85. 



' NuTT. Gen. i. 177.— DC. Prodr. iv. 70 ; Mem. i« Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Gcr. t. 1860 {Discoplewa). 



