CLASS V. ORDER II.] CORIANDRUM. 417 



upon by no means as pleasant or agreeable ; but upon referring to the 

 original Hebrew, we do not find any thing definitely spoken of; the 

 word means something bitter and unpleasant, and authors are very 

 varied in their opinion as to its signifying Hemlock or not : there 

 appears, indeed, reason to believe that it may have been Wormwood 

 (Absinthium), and some think it to have been (Lolium temulentum) 

 Darnel, see page 165. 



Sob-order 3. Coelosperm^, Albumen hemispherical, or saccato- 

 concave. 



Tribe 10. Coriandre.e. — Koch. Fruit globose or double, being 

 formed of two globose carpels. Carpels with five primary ridges, 

 depressed, waved, or in the form of an obscure furrow, the lateral 

 one placed before the accessory margin ; the four secondary ridges 

 more prominent, but not winged. Albumen hemispherical, con- 

 cave in front. 



GENUS LXXXVIII. CORIANDRUM.— Linn. Coriander. 



Gen. Char. Calyx margin of five teeth. Petals obcordate, with an 

 inflexed point, the outer ones larger, and bifid. Frxiit globose. 

 Carpels with five primary depressed waved ridges, the lateral ones 

 placed before an accessory margin, the four secondary ones more 

 prominent and carinated. Channels v<\\.\\o\\i rittce ; the commis- 

 sure with two vittce. Albumen concave in front, covered with a 

 loose membrane. General involucre mostly wanting, the partial 

 on one side. — Name from ko^iov, or xo^jawov. 

 1. C. saii'vum, Linn, (Fig. 476.) Common Coriander. Leaflets of 

 the lower leaves wedge-shaped, those of the upper linear. 



English Botany, t. 67.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 67. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 140. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. llo. 



Root small, tapering. Stein erect, from one to two feet high, round, 

 smooth, striated, branched and leafy, the lower leaves on long slender chan- 

 neled footstalks, bi-pinnated, the leaflets broadly wedge-shaped, mostly 

 deeply three-cleft, cut and deeply serrated or toothed, the upper leaves 

 gradually becoming larger, more compound, with shorter footstalks, 

 and long narrow linear segments, all quite smooth, of a pale shining 

 green. Umbels lateral and terminal, of from three to five rays, the 

 lateral ones sessile, or on footstalks, the partial umbels of numerous 

 short unequal rays. Flowers white or pale pink, the outer ones radiant. 

 Calyx of five narrow lanceolate teeth. Petals inversely heart-shaped. 



