218 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



wider (Todaroa ') ; sometimes rather thick little raised suberose 

 (Xatardia ^) ; secondary not conspicuous or very rarely slightly 

 prominent (Portenschlagia '). Vittse in furrows solitary or more rarely 

 2-nate, sometimes hroad (Portenschlagia) ; the intrajugal sometimes 

 more or less conspicuous {StenocceMum,'^ Bubonopsis ^). Mericarps 

 sometimes hirsute broader (Scaphespennum ^) or a little longer ; 

 ridges short {LomatopodiiunJ) Carpophore 2-partite or 2-fid. Face 

 of seed flat or slightly concave, sometimes more concave (Diplolo- 

 pliium ^). — Perennial or biennial herbs, glabrous, pubescent or tomen- 

 tose ; leaves ternato-pinnately dissected or decompound, sometimes 

 pinnately decompound {Xatardia) ; umbels compound ; involucral 

 bracts oo , membranous free (D ijjlolophium, Lihanotis ^) or at base 

 more or less connate in cupule {Hippomarathroides ^^), sometimes few, 

 very small or (Todaroa, Xatardia) ; bracteoles of involucels oo , rarely 

 (Todaroa) few or 0. (North, temp. reg. of Old World, trop. E. Africa}^) 

 87? Sclerochorton Boiss.^^ — Flowers ^^ polygamous; sepals den- 

 tiform. Petals obovate concave, at apex within produced to incurved 

 lacinule. Style elongate. Fruit sessile (nearly of Seseli), subterete ; 

 mericarps compressed. Kidges 5, rather prominent. Vittae in furrows 

 6, 7, very thin flexuose. Commissure broad, to 10-vittate. Seed con- 

 caveat face. — Perennial many- stemmed herbs; leaves rigid decompound 

 in petiolate lacinules ; umbels compound ; fertile flowers and fruit girt 

 at base with sterile male flowers or pedicels.^* (Persia, Greece}^) 



1 Parlat. Webb Thyt. Canar. ii. 155, t. 74. 1902, 1903,1905-1913; l^lo-l^H {Libanotis) ; 



— B. H. Gen. 900, n. 78. 1927 {Portemchlagia). —^ibtk. Fl. Grcec. t. 275, 



3 Meissn. Gen. 145 (105).— Endl. Gen. n. 21% {Athamantha).—Y\^. Fl. Dalmat. i. 2% {Li- 



4433.— B. H. Gen. 902, n. S2.—Fetitia J. Gat, banotis), 29, 30.~Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Foss. t. 97, 104, 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, xxvi. 219 (not Jacq.). 169, 171, 174.— Mor. Fl. Sard. t. 76.— Wight, 



3 Vis. Fl. Dalmat. iii. 46 (not Tratt.). — Icon. t. 569 (Cmdium). — Wight and Arn. P/Wr. 



B. H. Gen. 901, n. 79. 71.— Sm. Fzot. Bot. t. 120.— Benth. Fl. Austral. 



^ Ledeb. Fl. Alt. i. 297 ; Ic Fl. Ross. ii. 23, iii. 373.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 128.— Rupr. Fl. 



t. 175. — ExDL. Gen. n. 4452. Samoied. t. 2 (Libanotis) . — A. Gray, Froc. Amer. 



5 The type of which is Bubon macedonicum L. Acad. Sc. (1870) 287. — Harv. and Sond. FL Cap. 



(Seseli viacedonicum B. H. Gen. 901). ii. 549.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 961.— Gren. at Godr. 



« Edgew. Tram. Linn. Soc. xx. 58. Fl. de Fr. i. 706 {Bethatvia, Xatardia), 707.— 



7 FiscH. et Mey. Bull. Fhys.-Math. Acad. Bot. Mag. t. 2073, 2259.— Walp. Rep. ii. 401, 



Fetersb. iii. (1845) 306. 403 {Libanotis, Xatardia); v. 864, 865 (2o(faro«, 



« TuRcz. Bull. Mosc. (1847) i. 173.— B. H. Libanotis) ; Ami. i. 348, 24:9 {Libanotis) ; ii. 702; 



Gen. 900, n. 76. v. 69, 70 {Libanotis, Portenschlagia). 



9 Crantz, Fl. Austr. 222.— G^rtn. Fruct. i. 12 Fl. Or. ii. 968. 

 t. 21.— DC. Mem. 17; Frodr. iv. 149.— Endl. " "White." 



Gen. n. 4432. !■* Gen. in some respects very near to Seseli, in 



10 Hippomarathrum Riv. (not Link) . — G.ertn. its inflorescence somewhat resemhling Pycno- 

 Mey. et ScHERB. Fl. d. Waiter, ex DC. Frodr. cycla. Fruit certainly rather compressed. 



iv. 144 {Seseleos sect. 1) ; Mem. 46.— Schur, « Spec. 2. Sm. Prodi: Fl. Gra;c. i. 200 (Seseli). 



Entwi. PI. Transylv. 256. — Boiss. et Heldr. Diagn. Or. ser. 1, vi. 60 



^1 Spec, about 60. Reichb. f. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. (Seseli). 



