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Sanicula. Mericarps echinate from bristles which, are often hooked. Flowers 

 pedicelled, polygamous. Bracts small. Umbels very small, usually panicled. Leaves 

 dissected, toothed. 



* * TTmhels regularly compound. 



X Primary ribs of the mericarp more or less conspicuous, 

 secondary ones none. Vittse in the furrows usually 

 conspicuous or obscure, very rarely none. 

 Trih. 3. AMMINE^. Fruits laterally compressed, or narrowed or sulcate on 

 both sides of the commissure. 



* Seeds with a convex or almost flat face. 



X Leaves simple. Flowers yellow. 



BuPLEURUM. Umbels compound or rarely the flowers in heads. Calyx- teeth 

 obsolete. Disk-lobes almost flat. Leaves entire, flat. 



X X Leaves variously compound. Flowers usually white, rarely yellow. 

 - Apium. Carpophore simple or 2-cleft at the apex. Fruit didymous or ovate, the 

 mericarps almost straight. Petals entire, blunt or acute. 



Carum. Carpophore 2-cleft or 2-parted. Fruit ovate or oblong, the ribs rather 

 prominent. Involucre -bracts few and small, or none. Petals notched or 2-lobed. 

 Calyx-teeth obsolete or slightly prominent. Disk-lobes conical, or the disk convex. 



PiMPiNELLA. Carpophore 2-cleft or 2-parted. Eibs of the mericarps narrow, the 

 vittae numerous, conspicuous or very thin. Involucre-bracts few and small, or none, 

 very rarely numerous. Petals white or yellow. Disk-lobes thick, cushion-like or coni- 

 cal. Calyx-teeth obsolete or very rarely small. 



Trib. 4. SESELINEJE. Fruits transversely terete or compressed from the back, 

 the commissure broad, the lateral ribs either distinct, or united to the nerve-like or 

 corky-thickened margin which is not dilated. 



* Fruit transversely sub-terete or more or less compressed frojn the back, the pri- 



mary ribs not winged, 



X Primary ribs of the mericarps almost equal, not winged. 

 FcENicuLUM. Fruits not beaked, the primary ribs thin or thick but not corky, the 

 secondary ones wanting. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals entire, yellow. 



X X Lateral ribs of the mericarps not winged, confluent with the thick, 

 often corky margin, entire after the dehiscence. Vittse solitary in 

 the furrows. 

 Oenanthe. Petals notched or 2-lobed. Carpophore absent. All ribs of the meri- 

 carps very blimt and almost corky. Leaves usually pinnate or dissected. Umbels 

 compound. 



* * Fruits compressed from the bade or almost terete, all the primary ribs, or only 



the keeled ones, more or less expanded into thick wings, the wings equal, or 

 the lateral ones broader. 



Selinum. Fruits ovate, somewhat compressed from the back, the ribs equally 

 winged or the lateral ones broader. Disk- lobes conical or depressed. Flowers whjte 

 or yellowish green. 



Trib. 5. PFUCEBANE^. Fruit much compressed from the back, the lateral ribs 

 dilated into wing-like or broadly swollen margins, remaining entire after the dehis- 

 cence. 



Peucedanum. Mericarps more or less convex on the middle, (rarely nearly flat) 

 the margins rather thick and sharp, or broadly winged, vittee solitary in the furrows 



