SOS UMB:ELLIFERiE. 



3. EKYNGIUM, L. 



Calyx-limh 5-partite. Petals with an inflexed point. Fruit terete, tubercled, or scaly. 

 Carpids devoid of vittse and ribs i carpophore aduate. — Herbs, often sjAnescent ; flowers ia 

 paleiferouSf involucrate heads. 



4. E. faetidum, L. Biennial, dichotomously diffuse, glabrous ; basilar leaves spathnlate- 

 lanoeolate, sheathing at the base of the limb, serrate : serratures spinescent ; iuvolucral 

 leaves much longer than the ovoid-oblong, shortly peduncled flower-beads, lanceolate, spi- 

 nescent, usually deeply serrate, resembling the palmatipartite, superior leaves ; palese entire. 

 — SI. t. 156./. 3, 4. — A fetid herb, about 1' high; flowers white.^-HiB. Jamaica!, Saner., 

 March, M'Nab, in pastures; Antigua!, WullscU., Dominical, Imr., S. Vincent I, Guild.; 

 [Cuba and Panama ! to New Granada ! and Brazil !] . 



4*. PETEOSELINUM, Ilqfm. 



Calyx-linib obsolete. Petals roundish, incurved, entire, with an inflexed point. Fruit 

 laterally compressed. Carpids with 5 filiform ribs and single vittae between them, — Glabrous 

 herbs ; leaf-segments cuneate at the base ; umbels compound : involucre few-, involucel 

 many-leaved; flowers white. 



5*. P. sativum, Soffm. Stem erect, angular ; leaves 3-pinnatisect, shining : ultimate 

 segments lanceolate or trifld. — Apium Petroselinnm, L. — Biennial. — Hab. Naturalized in 

 Jamaica {Maef.), in Coffee plantations ; [introduced from southern Europe]. 



5. HEIOSCIADIUM, Kch. 



Petals expanded, ovate, entire. Fruit and carpids of Petroselinum. — Herbs; umbels 

 compound.; flowers white. 



6. H. leptophyllum, i)(7. Annual, glabrous , stem slightly striate, erect or diffuse; 



■ , leaves tri-ternatisect ■. segments capillary-liiear ; umbels subsessile, opposite to the leaves, 



^ , 2-3-rayed : involucre and involucel noae.—Jacg. H. Find. t. 200. — ^'-3' high ; leaf-seg- 



*■ ments 3"'-6"', umbel-rays 6"'-9"', pedicels 2"'-3"'long; calyx-limb obsolete.— Hab. Jamaica!, 



Macf, a weed in Coffee plantations ; [Louisiana! to Buenos Ayres ! and Valdivia ! ; Australia !]. 



6*. PASTINACA, L. 



Petals roundish, involute. Frmt compressed from the back, with a thickened margin. 

 Carpids with single, filiform vittse between the 6 delicate ribs, 3 of which are distant from 

 the margin of the commissure. — Biennial or perennial herbs ; leaves pinnatisect ; umbels 

 compound: &oweis yellow. 



.'■"' 7*. P. sativa, i. Biennial ; stem sulcate ; leaf-segments ovate-oblong, blunt, crenate- 

 serrate, pubescent beneath, terminal 3-lobed; involucre ; calyx-limb obsolete ; fruit oval: 



> commissure 2-vittate. — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica (i^acf.), in Coffee plantations; [in- 

 troduced from Europe]. 



7*. BATJCUS, Z. 



Calyx-limb 5-dentate. Petals emarginate, inflexed, exterior often radiant. Fruit slightly 

 compressed from the back. Carpids with single vittse behind the 4, aculeate, winged, secon- 

 dary ribs : prickles 1-seriate : 5 primary ribs setose. — Herbs, usually biennial; leaves 2-3- 

 pinnatisect ; umbels compound, involucred. 



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D. Carotaj L. Hispid (or glabrate) ; leaf-segments piunatifid : lobes oblong-linear, 

 cuspidate ; involucre-leaves piunatifid, nearly as long as the umbel ; umbels at length con- 

 tracted ; flowers white (the central often purple) ; prickles about as long as the diameter of 

 the oval-oblong fruit.— Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica !, i)o», in Coffee plantations; [intro- 

 duced from Europe]. 



8. AKKACACHA, Eancr. 



" Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals ovate or lanceolate, entire, with an inflexed point. Fruit 



