228 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



58. Physospermum Cuss.^ — Flowers- hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous ; sepals short or 0. Petals long or obovate ; point elongate 

 involute. Stylopods conical. Fruit shortly ovate or 2-dymous, con- 

 stricted at commissure ; mericarps transversely subterete ; primary 

 ridges scarcely prominent filiform ; vittse in furrows solitary large ; 

 carpophore simple. Seed concave at face, transversely reniform. — 

 Glabrous perennial herbs ; leaves decompound, 3-nato-pinnate ; 

 segments incised ; umbels compound ; bracts of involucres and invo- 

 lucels 00 , linear. {Europe, Caucasian reg,^) 



59. Molopospermum Koch.^ — Flowers polygamous ; sepals very 

 small deciduous. Petals oblong entire ; apex acuminate incurved or 

 inflexed. Stylopods conical, at base entire or submarginate. Fruit 

 oblong- obo void, compressed contrary to septum and much constricted 

 at commissure ; mericarps transversely unequally-4-gonal. Primary 

 dorsal and intermediate ridges expanded to thick prismatic wings ; 

 lateral at commissure subaborted small, sometimes incurved ; vittas 

 in furrows solitary large ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed convex at 

 back, at face concave, deeply sulcate at vittse. — Glabrous perennial 

 herbs ; leaves pinnately decompound ; umbels compound ; bracts of 

 involucres and involucels oo , linear, sometimes foliaceous pinnatifid. 

 (j\Iicl. and south-west. Europe.^) 



60. Smyrnium T.^) — Flowers ^ hermaphrodite or oftener poly- 

 gamous; calyx minute or 0. Petals entire or emarginate. Stylopods 

 conical or depressed, sometimes undulate at margin {Eulophus ^). Fruit 

 ovoid or broader than long, but sometimes longer {Eleutherospermum^), 



i Ex. J. Mem. Soc. MM. Par. (1782) 279.— '" Spec. 1. Ar. ciciitarium DC— Reichb. f. Ic. 



Spreng. Mkm. Soc. Mosc. v. fig. 1-3. — Koch, Fl. Germ. t. 2012. — Grex. et Godb.. I' I. de F r. 



Umb. 134. — DC. Prodr. iv. 246. — Endl. Gen. n. i. 7*7. — Ligusticum peloponesiacum L. Spec. 360. 



4540. — B. H. Gen. 882, n. 29. — Danaa All. Fl. — Jacq. Fl. Ansir. App. t. 13. — L. peloponenae 



Fedem, ii. 34, t. 63 (not Sm.). — Hcenselera Lag. Lakk. Diet. iii. 576. — L. cicutarium Lamk. Fl. 



Gen. et Sp. Nov. 13. — Alschinra Vis. Fl. Dalmat. Fr. iii. 453. — Cicutaria latifolia foetida Bauh. 



iii. 69. Fin. 161. 



2V^liite. ^ Inst. 315, t. 168.— L. Gen. n. 363.— Lao. 



» Spec, about 3. Sm. Gen. Ic. Fid. t. 11 {Li- Awoen. ii. 101.— Koch, Vmh. 133.— DC. Frodr. 



gusticum).—Sow. Engl. Bot. (ed. 3) t. 630.— iv. 247.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, viii. 177.— 



Guss. Frodr. i. 355.— Brot. Fl. Lus. 37 (Sison). Exol. Gen. n. 4541.— B. H. Gen. 885, n. 38. 



— Waldst. et Kit. PL Far. Hung. ii. 186, 1. 171 " Yellow or " white." 



{Loserpitium). — Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. * Nutt. DC. Mem. 69, fig. 2 ; Prodr. iv. 248. — 



748.— Walp. i?e;j. ii. 426. B. H. Gen. 885, n. 40.— Ferideridia Reichb. 



* Nov. Acta Nat. Cur. xii. 108.— DC. Frodr. FJIanzensgst. 219.— Endl. Gen. n. 4543. 



iv. 230.— Endl. Gen. n. 4510.— B. H. Gen. 882, » C. Koch, Linnaa, xvi. 365.— Boiss. Fl. Or. 



r, 30. ii. 924. 



