216 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



ridges scarcely perceptible ; vittse obscure or 0. Seed rather com- 

 pressed at back, flat or rather concave at face. — A glabrous rigid 

 perennial herb; leaves pinnately compound; segments dissected; 

 umbels compound ; bracts of involucre and involucels small or ; fruit 

 surrounded by exterior sterile flowers and concrete with them hardened 

 and with the pedicels and the bracts of the involucel.^ {Levant}) 



38. Cachrys T.s — Flowers ^ hermaphrodite or often polygamous ; 

 sepals minute or oftener 0. Petals emarginate, retuse or entire. 

 Stylopods conical or depressed, entire or undulate at margin. Fruit 

 ovoid or oblong, subterete or rather compressed dorsally, more 

 rarely laterally (Hippomarathrum,^ Lecokia ^), either exalate {Eucachrys, 

 Magydaris^), or all or some of the primary ridges expanded in wings 

 (Prangos^). Kidges sometimes produced to a wing below mericarps 

 (Golladonia^). Mesocarp thick 'fleshy, generally suberose or spongy 

 and longitudinally divided within into as many thick segments as 

 there are ridges ; epicarp smooth or muricate {Lecolda), or tomentose 

 (Magydaris), Carpophore 2-fid or 2-partite. Vittse oo , sometimes 

 irregular and interrupted. Seed at face widely and deeply hollowed ; 

 margins involute. — Perennial herbs ; leaves pinnately and ternately 

 compound or oftener decompound ; segments wide dentate lobed or 

 oftener filiform, sometimes rigid and sharp pointed {Hippoinarathrum) ; 

 umbels compound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , linear- 

 lanceolate or setaceous, more rarely short or 0. {Meditt, region, 

 west, and middle Asia.^^) 



^ Hence resemlDling those of Excacantha and Mem. 67. — Endl. Gen. n. 4526. — B. H. Gev. 904, 



Echinophora if not (Enanthe prolifera. n. 89. — Hook. Fl. lad. ii. 695. — Fteromara- 



2 Spec. 1. T. meif alius Boiss. l c. cit. thrum Koch (ex DC. loc. cit.). 



3 j,ist. 325, t. 172.— L. Gen. n. 342.— J. Gen. » DU. Prodr. iv. 240.— Exdl. Gen. n. 4527.— 

 223.— Link. Enum. Hort. Ber. i. 271. — Koch, Perlebia'DG.Mein. %1 (noi^lA^T.). — Mcliocarpus 

 Umb. 136. — HoFF.i, Umb. t. 3. — DC. Prodr. iv. Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nat. scr. 3, ii. 84. — Antsoplewa 

 236.— Endl. Gen. n. 4525.— B.H. Gen. 904, n. Fenzl. Endl. Gm. Suppl. iii. 82; iv. p. iii. 14. 

 88. — H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 177. — Heptaptera Makg. et Eeut. Mem. Soc. Phys. 



■* Generally yellowish. Geneve., viii. 302, t. 5. 



5 Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 271 (not Schur). i" Spoc. about 40. Vent. /<rr^. Cels. t. 97 {La- 

 — B. H. Gen. 883, n. 33 (part). — .A^gomarathrum serpitium). — Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Boss. t. 313. — Wall. 

 Koch, ex Meissn. Gen. 150 {V^%).— Trachyma- PI. As. Bar. t. 2\2 {Prangos).—^i^rn. Fl. Grcec. 

 rathrum Tausch. Flora (1834), M^.—Lophcca- t. 278.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 931 {Leeohia, Hippo- 

 chrys Beutol. Fl. Ital. iii. 455. marat/irtm), 935 ; 937 {Prangos), 944 {collado- 



6 DC. Mem. 67, t. 2 ; Prodr. iv. 240.— E>dl. ??m). — Walp. Bep. ii. 424, 425 {Heptaptera) ; v. 

 Gen. n. 4528.— B. H. Gen. 882, n. 32. 914, 915 {Prangos), 918 {Meliocarpuf^), 919 



7 Koch, ex DC. ^ew. 68; P/W;-. iv. 241.— {Colladonia, Heptaptera); Ann. ii. 720, 721 

 Endl. Gen. n, 4529.— B. H. Gen. 904, n. 87. {Praugos), 722 {Meliocarpus) ; v. 79 {Acantho- 



8 Lindl. Quart. Journ. Sc. (1824) 7.— Lag. Oc. pleura), 80 {Prangos). 

 Esp. Emigr. (1826) 15.— DC. Frodr. iv. 239; 



