umbellifi:r^. 229 



compressed contrary to septum or 2-dymous from contracted 

 commissure. Mericarps transversely subterete ; primary dorsal and 

 intermediate ridges, sometimes also the lateral [Smymiopsis ^) rather 

 prominent ; all sometimes scarcely conspicuous ; vittae in furrows 

 solitary or oftener 00 , or few (Sniyrmopsis), sometimes with thin 

 endocarp adhering to seed ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed subglobose 

 or ovoid, deeply hollowed at face ; cotyledons ovate, round or more 

 rarely linear oblong. — Glabrous perennial or biennial herbs ; leaves 

 radical 3-nately or 3-nato-pinnately decompound; segments linear 

 (Eulophus) or broad dentate-lobed ; umbels compound ; involucral 

 bracts few or ; bracteoles of involucels 00 , small, few or 0.^ 

 (^Europe, north. Africa, tvest. Asia, Japan ?, north, and south. Andean 

 America.^) 



61. Conium L.^ — Flowers "^ hermaphrodite or polygamous; calyx 

 short or 0. Petals obovate-cuneate, or broadly ovate (Vicatia ®), emar- 

 ginate or subentire from shghtly or scarcely impressed costa. Stylopods 

 depressed conical, entire or undulate (Vicatia) at margin. Fruit short- 

 (Eiiconium) or long-ovoid, compressed contrary to septum, constricted 

 at commissure. Mericarps obtusely 5-gonal ; primary ridges obtuse 

 or filiform, sometimes undulately crenulate ; vittae 00 , thin unequal 

 or {Euconium '') ; carpophore simple or shortly 2-fid. Seed angular 

 deeply sulcate at face. — Glabrous biennial or perennial herbs; leaves 

 pinnately decompound; segments inciso-pinnatifid ; umbels compound ; 

 involucral bracts few or 1, oftener small ; bracteoles of involucels 00 , 

 small or linear. (North, hemisph. of both ivorlds, trop. east, and south. 

 Africa.^) 



' Boiss. A/m. Sc. Nat. scr. 3, ii. 72 ; m. Or. — Endl. Ge». n. 4532.— B. H. Gen. 883, n. 34.— 



ii. 927. H. En. Adansonia, xii. 178;. — Anosmia AsiiEiis. 



^ Qy. if of tliisgen. Nothosmyrmum (Mia. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 225. — CicutaT. Insi.ZQQ, 



Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 58), a Japanese plant t. 160. — GiKRTN. Fruct. i. 100, t. 22. — Hook. 



unknown to us, according to authors allied to Fl. Ind. ii. 679. 



Sinyrnium or to Plmpinella ? s White. 



3 Spec, about 10. Sibth. Fl. Orcec. t. 289.— e dc. Prodr. iv. 243.— Endl. Gen. n. 4533.— 



Sow. Pnffl. Bot. (ed. 3) t. 631.— Waldst. et B. H. Gen. 883, n. ZA.— Rook. Fl. Ind. ii. 670. 



Kit. pi. Bung. Bar. t. 23. — All. Fl. Pedem. t. ? Vittae described by authors as very thin 



72. — ScH. Syst. y'l. 440. — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et irregular ; pericarps appear externally parietal 



Sp. V. 15 {Cnidium). — A. Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. rather thick yellowish. 



Hist. vi. 211 {Tauscliia) ; Man. (ed. 5) 198 {Fu- " Spec, about 3, one of which is C. maculatum 



tophus). — Boiss. jP/. O/-. ii. 925. —Gken. etGoDR. (p. 183, note 1). Concerning the others see 



Fl. de Fr. i. 749.— W alp. Ann. i. 357 ; ii. 722 Harv. and Soxd. Fl. Cap. ii. 567. — Kl. 



{Smyrniopsis). Waldem. Bets. Bot. t. 45, 46 {Chcerophyilum). 



* Gen. n. 336. — Hoffm. Umb. 99.— Lag. —Boiss. Piayn. Or. ger. 2, v. 103; FL Or. il 



Amcen. ii. 103.— Koch, Umb. 135, fig.40.~DC. 922.— A. Gray, Man. (ed. 5) 197.— Walp. Rep. 



Prodr. ix. 242.— Spach, Suit, d Bufou, viii. 179. ii. 425. 



