252 THE UMBELLATE PAMILT, 



2 or 3 feet high, or when cultivated, still taller. Leaves 3 or 4 times pin- 

 nate, with very narrow, Unear or subulate segments, rather stiff in dry situa- 

 tions, very slender when cultivated. Umbels rather large, of 15, 20, or 

 more rays, more or less glaucous. Fruit about 3 lines long, the vittas very 

 conspicuous. 



On dry, rocky banks, apparently of south European origin, but has 

 long been much cultivated, and estabhshes itself readily in stony or arid 

 hUly situations, especially near the sea, so that it is now generally diffused 

 over temperate Europe and western Asia. Occurs in many parts of Britain, 

 and may be even indigenous on some points of the coasts of England. 

 Fl. late in summer, and autum,n. 



XTX. SESELZ. SESELI. 



Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial and sometimes ge- 

 neral involucres of several bracts. Petals white, usually notched, with an 

 inflected point. Fruit ovoid or oblong, not compressed, the calycine teeth 

 usually promment. Carpels with 5 promment, often thick ribs, and single, 

 or rarely 2 or more vittas under each furrow. 



A considerable genus, widely spread over the northern hemisphere in the 

 old world. The British species belongs to a section differing from the 

 more common ones in habit, and in the hairy fruit, and is united by some 

 with the southern genus Atliamanta, by others considered as an independent 

 genus under the name of Lihanolis. 



1. DZouutain Seseli. Seseli Iiibanotis, Hoch.' 

 {Athamanta, Eng. Bot. t. 138.) 



Stock perennial, short, covered with the decayed remains of old leafstalks. 

 Stems stout, erect, 1 to 2 feet high, slightly branched. Leaves chiefly 

 radical, thrice pinnate, with small ovate or lanceolate, pinnately lobed 

 segments ; the stem-leaves few, and much smaller. Umbels of 20 to 30 or 

 more rays, with numerous narrow bracts, both to the general and the par- 

 tial involucres. Flowers white, crowded. Fruits always hairy, and there 

 is often a minute wliitish down on the stems, petioles, and umbels. 



In hilly pastui-es, in central and eastern Em'ope and Russian Asia, less 

 fi'equent m the west, and wanting in the south. In Britain, limited to the 

 counties of Hertford, Cambridge, and Sussex. Fl. summer. 



XX. I.OVAGE. LIGUSTICUM. 



Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, vnth partial involucres of many 



'bracts. Petals white, notched, with an inflected point. Fruit ovoid or 



oblong, not compressed, the calycine teeth scarcely distinct. Carpels with 



5 very prominent acute ribs, almost expanded into wings, and several vittas 



under each fiuTOw. 



A genus of several European, Asiatic, and North American species, chiefly 

 mountain plants, differing from Seseli in the acute ribs of the fruit, and 

 indistinct calycine teeth. 



1. Scotcli Xjovage. Iiigusticum scoticum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1207.) 

 Stock perennial, descending into a tap-root. Stem erect, glabrous, thick 



