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69 ? Rhabdosciadium Boiss.^ — Flowers ^ polygamous (nearly of 

 Chcerophyllum) ; sepals acute, persistent. Petals emarginate ; point 

 inflexed. Stylopods conical. Fruit linear- elongate, somewhat or 

 scarcely compressed contrary to septum. Primary ridges subequal 

 obtuse, or the marginal dilated to narrow wings. Vittse in furrows 

 solitary, thin or irregular ; the commissural wider. Carpophore 2 -fid. 

 Seed at face more or less concave. — Glabrous perennial herbs ; 

 branches few-leaved ; leaves reduced to petioles, or the lower with a 

 scanty limb ; segments few, dentate or lobulate ; umbels compound ; 

 central flower sessile fertile; surrounding males pedicellate.'^ (Persia,*) 



70. Myrrhis T.^ — Flowers ^ polygamous (nearly of ChcerophyUum) ; 

 sepals very small or 0. Petals spuriously etnarginately 2-lobed. 

 Stylopods shortly conical or pulvinate, oftener entire. Fruit oblong- 

 or elongate-linear, compressed contrary to septum, more or less con- 

 stricted at commissure ; mericarps 5-gonal. Primary ridges equal, 

 rather thick or acutely prominent, sometimes ciliate {Osmorhiza ') ; 

 carpophore thin or rather thick, 2-fid ; vittae in furrows very thin or 

 0, sometimes oo (Osmorhiza). Face of seed more or less deeply 

 sulcate. — Perennial herbs, glabrous or hirsute, often very aromatic; 

 leaves pinnately or ternato-pinnately decompound ; segments dentate 

 or pinnatifid ; umbels compound ; involucral bracts very few or ; 

 bracteoles of involucels oo , membranous, sometimes deciduous or 0. 

 (Mount. Europe, north, and east. Asia, India, N, and south, temp, Andean 

 America.^) 



71. Scandix T.^ — Flowers ^^ (of Chcerophjjlhmi) hermaphrodite or 



{Anthriscus), 905, 908 {Grammosciadium) ; Ann. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 690. — Uraspermum Nutt. 



ii. 718 ; v. 78, 79 {Oreotnyrrhis), Gen. Nov. Amer. i. 192 (not J.). — Spermatura 



1 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ii. 68; Fl. Or. ii. 898. Reichb. Consp. 141. 



— B. H. Gen. 898, n. 72 (part). » Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 2013.— Hook. Fl. 



2 " White." Bor.-Amer. t. 96, 97 {Osmorhiza).— ToRVi. Fl. N. 

 ' Pedicels springing from axil of bract sessile York, t. 38 (Osmorhiza). — Royl. III. Himal. i. 52 



at bottom of receptacle; whence inflorescence (Osmorhiza). — A. Gray, Man. (ed. 5) 197 {Os- 



Bomewhat resembles that oi Petagnia. The morhiza). — CnAvu.Fl. S.Un. St. l&Q {Osmorhiza). 



flowers also resemble Crenosciadium. — Fii. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. i. 183 [Osmorhiza). 



* Spec. 3. Boiss. loc. eit. — Walp. Rep. v. 909. — S.-Wats. King's Rep. Bot. 122.— Boiss. Fl. Or. 



5 Inst. 315 (part), t. 166.— Scop. Fl. Carniol. ii. 910.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 746. — 



i. 207.— DC. Prodr. iv. 231.— Endl. Gen.n. 4513. Walp. Rep. ii. 423 (Osmorhiza, Glyeoi>ma). 



— B.H. Gen. 897, n. Q^.—LinderaADKHB. Fam. » Inst. 326, t. 173.— L. Gen. n. 357 (part).— 



des Pi. ii. 499 (not Thunb.). — Glycosma Nutt. G^rtn. Fruct. ii. 33, t. 85.— Lag. Amcen. ii. 37. 



Torr. et Gr. Fl Amer. i. 63 9.— Endl. Gm. —Kocii,Umh. 132.— DC. Prodr. iv. 220.— Endl. 



n. 45151. Gen. n. 4504.— B. H. Gen. 899, n. 73.— Hook. 



« White. Fl. Ind. ii. 692. 



7 Rafin. Journ. Phys. 89. — DC. Prodr. iv. 232. ^^ White or yellowish-green, oftener vcry 



—Endl. Gen. n. 4515.— B. H. Gen. 897, n. 68. small crowded. 



