ABALIAC££. (GINSENG FAMILY.) 159 



Blenier and smooth tall perennial, with the leaves 2-teniately divided into nar- 

 row linear leaflets or lobes. Involucre scarcely any : involucels short and bristle- 

 form. Mowers white. (Name from tS, vidl, and Xo^os, a crest, not well 

 applied to a plant which has no crest at all.) 



1. E. Americ^nus, Nutt. — Darby Plains, near Columbus, Ohio {Sul- 

 livant), and southwestward. July. — Boot a cluster of small tubers. 



27. ERIOtllVIA, Nutt. Hakeinger-op-Speistg. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obovate or spatulate, flat, entire. Pruit twin ; 

 the carpels incurved at top and bottom, nearly kidney-form, with 5 very slender 

 ribs, and several small oil-tubes in the interstices : inner face of the seed hol- 

 lowed into a broad deep cavity. — A small and smooth vernal plant, producing 

 from a deep round tuber a simple stem, bearing one or two 2 - 3-ternately divided 

 leaves, and a somewhat imperfect and leafy bracted compound umbel. Flowers 

 few, wliite. (Name from ripiyevfjs, born in the spring.) 



I. IE. bnlbosa, Nutt. — Alluvial soil, Western New York and Penn., to 

 Wisconsin, Kentucky, &c. March, April. — Stem 3' - 9' high. 



The cultivated representatives of this family are chiefly the Pabslbt (Apium 

 PetroseHlnum), Celeey (A. graviolens), Dill {Anlthum gravkolens), Fennel (A. 

 Fceniculum), Caraway (Cdrum Cdnd), and Cokiandek {Coridndrum sat\vutn). 



Order 53. AKALIACEiE. (Ginseng Family.) 



Herbs, shruhs, or trees, with much the same characters as Umbelliferae, but 

 with usually more than 2 styles, and the fruit a 3 — several-celled drupe. 

 (Albumen mostly fleshy. Petals flat.) — Represented only by the genus 



1. ABAliIA, Tourn. Ginseng. Wild Saesapakilla. 



Flowers more or less polygamous. Calyx-tnbe coherent with the ovaiy, the 

 teeth very sliort or almost obsolete. Petals 5, epigynous, oblong or obovate, 

 imbricated in the bad, deciduous. Stamens 5, epigynous, alternate with the 

 petals. Styles 2-5, mostly distinct and slender, or in the sterile flowers short 

 and united. Ovary 2-5-cellcd, with a single anatropous ovule suspended from 

 the top of each cell, ripening into a ben'y-likc drape, with as many seeds as 

 cells. Embiyo minute. — Leaves compound or decompound. Flowers white 

 or greenish, in umbels. Koots (perennial), bark, fruit, &c. warm and aromatic. 

 (Derivation obscure.) 



§ 1 . ARALIA, L. — Flowers monosdoasly polygamous or perfect, the timbels iisualh/ 

 in corymbs or panicles: styles and cells of the (black or dark purple) fruit 5 : stems 

 herbaceous or woody : ultimate divisions of the leaves pinnate. 



* Umbels very numerous in a large compound panicle : leaves very large, quinately Of 

 pinnately decompound. 

 1. A. spinosa, L. (Angelica-teee. Heecules' Club.) Shrub, or 



a low tree; the stout stem and stalls prickly ; leaflets ovate, pointed, serrate, pale 



