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GINSENG FAMILY. 155 
keeled. Channels without o7l-tubes. Seed curved in at top and bottom 
eer l-leaved or 0. Involucels Syndinte, about 3-leaved. Flowers 
white, or ti — red before expanding 
= oe vum, L. Leaves ns Harem! dissected,—segments of the lower 
+ oe ake uneate, incised-dentate,—of the upper ones narrow and 
as carpels hem 
Goiirear TED CORIANDRUM. Opieian 
Fr. cari Germ. Der. ak Span. Cilantro. 
Plant smooth. Root ual (sometimes biennial, DC.). Stem 1-2 feet high, slender, 
senate, oratannntt bracthed atsummit. OUmbels 3-5-rayed. Umbellets of numerous short 
unequal ra s. Carpels very concave on the face, chboring by their margins s to form 
apparently a simple globose fruit with 2 oil-tubes in a loose membrane, Srhich Parc the 
inner face of the se 
Gardens : cultivated. Native of Tartary and the East... Fl. el Fr. August- 
September. 
Obs. “Nes sama agua for its aromatic fruit The odor of the 
fresh herb is very offensive greater which the Tartars are said 
to prepare a favorite soup Pass 
Orper XXXIV. ARALIA’CEZ. (Grinsene Famty.) 
Perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, with alternate, mostly compound leaves, destitute of 
sti] ales, oe mostly umb cimbelats flowers—the u umbels often pan mata Calyz adher ent to the 
pte . 
Slamene 
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with a solitary on segs ae me each cell ; styles ‘as ma ny as etimes 
united. Fruit baccate or drupaceo —sometimes nearly dry, but the carpal ae sepa-_ 
A small Order, with much the same eaten as Umbellifere, but with usually more “ 
than 2 styles, and the fruit 
ie oe BRA LEAS ‘Wrep SARSAPARILLA. 
‘Bit ; su 
Flowers more or less polygamous. Calyz 5-toothed, teeth very short or 
almost preant te dads 5, spreading. Stamens 5, on short 
Styles 2-5, mostly distinct and slender, or in the sterile flowers 
and united. Berry i emg with a see suspended seed in 
somewhat blobed.” s or shrubs,—sometimes prickly. 
decompound.. Ptemet hits or eomee umbels. 
21. Arata. 
Flowers moneciousl: perfect.the. 
y in corymbs or eugene tt als a il of the of te (ako dark p 
fruit 5 ; stems herbaceous or divisions of the leaves pi 
1, A. racemo’sa, L. Stem sik smooth, divavicately branched s : 
leaves ternately and area A esi leaflets cordate-ovate, acu- 
mes axillary, compound, PN de sah - 
seit tals aint 
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