Conlum.'] 



XXXVIII. UMBELLIFER^. 



183' 



notched and as well as the disk rough with appressed bristles. 

 E.B.t. 1173. 



Rare; in waste ground about London, Oxford, and Eton. Be- 

 tween Twickenham and Isle worth. 0. 6, 7. — Much taller than 

 the last, and with a greater number of more lanceolate leaflets. In- 

 volucre very short. Petals all comparatively small, rose-coloured. 

 Vitt(E solitary between the ribs, 2 on the suture. 



D. Fruit globose^ not pricldy ; (carpels scarcely separating^ . 



Albumen solid. (Gen. 29.) 



W 



29. CoRTANDKUM Linn. Coriander. (Tab. 11. f. 29.) 



Fruit globose. Carpels closely cohering, the ribs obsolete, 

 broad; interstices prominent, slender, without vittce. Petals 

 obcordate with an inflected point ; outer ones radiant. (In- 

 volucre 0. Partial on one side.) — Name : from t^opit^^ a bug ; in 

 allusion to the intolerably fetid smell of the bruised foliage. 



1. C"^ sativum L. (common C). J3. B. t. 67. 



Fields and waste places, about Ipswich and in Essex, &c. ©. 6. 



This is the only true species of the genus, and is well known as a 

 medicinal plant. Stem erect, leafy. Lower leaves bipinnate ; the 

 pinnse pinnatifid with broad, wedge-shaped, toothed segments : the 

 upper leaves gradually more compound, their segments very narrow 

 and linear, those of the uppermost leaves nearly setaceous. Fruit 

 very curious; each carpel is hemispherical, on its inner and flat side 

 having a projecting margin, which so combines with the opposite one 

 as to leave no line or furrow between the two, and they form a com- 

 plete little ball or globe, having, however, when quite ripe, 10 ob» 

 scure elevated lines or ribs. 



E. Fruit short and turgid^ not pricldy nor beaked^ somewhat 

 laterally compressed. Albumen farrowed or involute at the 



suture. (Gen. 30 



32.) 



30, CoNiuM Linn. Hemlock. (Tab. II. f. 30.) 



Fruit broadly ovate. Carpels with 5 prominent waved or 

 crenate ribs, without vitt(B. Albumen furrowed. Cal.-teeth 

 obsolete. Petals obcordate. (Involucre of few leaves ; partial 

 of 3 leaves on one side.) — I^ame: tcwvetov^ of Theophrastus, from 

 Kiovog^ a cone or a top^ whose whirling motion resembles the 

 giddiness produced on the human constitution by the poisonous 

 juice of this plant. 



1. C. maciddtum L. (common IL) ; stem glabrous spotted, 

 leaves tripinnate, leaflets lanceolate pinnatifid with acute and 



often cut segments. 



F. B. t. 1191. 



Waste places, banks, and under walls, not unfrequent. ^. 6, 7 



