ORDER 67.-THE UMBELWORTS. 211 
Fig. 483. Golden Alexanders, with its compound, naked umbel, &. 4. A flower enlarged. 
5. The fruit with its thread-shaped ribs and two persistent styles. 6. Cross-section, showing the 
two carpels with the oil-tubes and flat inner face. 7. Umbel of Sweet Cicely, in fruit. 8. A 
flower enlarged. 9. The fruit with the two carpels separating from the base and supported by a 
two-cleft stalk. Fig. 490. Summit of the fruit of Bitter Cicely. 1. Fruit of Poison Hemlock, 
with the undulate-crenulate ribs. 2. Cross-section, showing the grooved inner face and involute 
albumen. 8. Radiate flower of Coriandrum. 4. Vertical section of the globose fruit, showing 
the minute embryo. 
1. SANIC’ULA. Sanicle. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx teeth leafy, tube bristly. Petals obovate, 
erect, with the point inflected. Fruit roundish, armed with hooked 
prickles. Carpels without ribs—2, Plants 1-2f high. Umbel with a few 
capitate umbellets. Involucre of few cleft bracts, involucel of several, 
entire. June-Aug. 
1S. Marylan’dica. Long-styled S. Sterile flowers many, pedicellate; fertile flowers 
sessile. Styles slender, conspicuous, recurved. Leaves 5-7-parted. Common. 
2S, Canaden’sis. Short-styled S. Sterile flowers few, much shorter than the fertile. 
Styles shorter than the prickles. Leaves 5-parted, upper 8-parted. Umbels 
(or heads) small. Woods. Common. 
