38. ARALIACE^. 151 



lanceolate, pinnatifid with acute cut segments. Readily distin- 

 g:uished by its foetid smell, spotted stem, unilateral partial invo- 

 lucres and wavy crenate ridges of the fruit. Highly poisonous. 

 — Hedge-banks and waste places. B. VI. VH. 



40. Physospermum Cusson. 



1. P. cornubiense (DC.) ; radical 1. triternate, leaflets wedge- 

 shaped cut or deeply 3-lobed with acute segments, stem-1. ternate 

 lanceolate entire. — E. B. 683. — St. 1 — 3 feet high, erect, round, 

 striated, minutely scabrous, bearing a few small ternate leaves 

 with Unear lanceolate segments, the uppermost represented by a 

 barren lanceolate acute sheath. Umbels terminal. Carp, longer 

 than broad ; the coat loose. Seed free. — Hooker and Arnott 

 refer P. aquilegifolium (Koch) to this ; Bertoloni vrith Hooker's 

 observations before him, states that they are quite different. — 

 Devon and Cornwall, rare. P. VH. VIII. E. 



41. Smyrnitjm Linn. Alexanders. 



1. S. Olusatrum {\j.); st. terete, stem-1. ternate stalked ser- 

 rate. — -E. B. 230. — St. 3 — 4 feet high, stout, branched, leafy, 

 furrowed. Radical 1. very large, all with large membranous sheaths 

 and large ovate shining cut and serrated leaflets. Fl. greenish- 

 yellow in dense rounded umbels. Pr. nearly black, aromatic. — 

 Waste ground and near ruins. B. ? V. VI. 



Suborder III. Ccelospermm. Tribe XII. Coriandrea. 

 42. CoRiANDRUM Linn. Coriander. 



•1. C. sativum (L.).— E. B. 67.— St. 12—18 in. high, leafy, 

 round, striated. L. bipinnate, cut ; upper ones more divided 

 into linear segments. Fl. white. — Fields and waste places, an 

 escape from cultivation. A. VI. E. S. 



Order XXXVIII. ARALIACEiE. 



Cal. 4 — 5-toothed, adnate to the ovary. Pet. 5—16, rarely 

 wanting ; aestivation valvate. Stam. as many as the pet. and 

 alternate with them or twice as many, inserted below the margin 

 of an epigynous disk. Ovary with 2 or more cells. Styles as 

 many as the cells. Fr. succulent or dry, of several cells each 

 with I pendulous seed. Albumen fleshy. Embryo minute (not 

 so in our Hedera). — L. alternate without stipules. 



1. Adoxa. Cal. half inferior, limb trifid. Cor. superior, 

 4 — S-cleft, rotate with a short tube contracted at the throat. 



