UMBELLIFHB^. 



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hundred and fifty species,' perennial, rarely annual herbs, still more 

 rarely shrubs or trees, inhabiting in great number the entire northern 

 hemisphere of the old world, Africa from the Mediterranean to the 

 Cape, andthe moun- 

 tainous and tern- MeracUum Sphmdylimn. 



perate regions of 

 tropical western 

 America. 



Heracleum is very 

 near the Peucedans, 

 particularly, as we 

 have said, to those 

 of the section Pasti- 

 naca. The leaves, 

 like almost all the 

 other parts of the 

 plant, are often co- 

 vered with soft or 

 coarse hairs. The 

 flowers (fig. 92, 93) 

 are white and rarely 

 yellow. The petals 

 are generally ex- 

 panded. The fruit 

 (fig. 94) is much 

 compressed or 

 slightly depressed 

 at the centre, ellip- 

 tical, suborbicular, 

 or oboval, and has its margins attenuated and drawn together till 



Fig. 91. Floriferous summit (J). 



279, 280 (Ferula).— Lebss. Ic. Fl. Moss. t. 105, 

 181, 199, 305, 306, 308, 309.— Haev. and Sond. 

 Fl. Cap. ii. 553, 560, n. 1 (Suion), 561 [Pastina- 

 (■»).— Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 88, 91 (Fem- 

 lago), 92 (Ferula); v. 98 ; \i. 83 (Ferulago), 83 

 (Ferula), 85 ; Fl. Or. ii. 982 (Palimbia, Ferula), 

 996 (Ferulago), 1008 (Dorema), 1014, 1026 (Ane- 

 thumt). — BoKszcz. Pharm. Ferul. Mem. Acad. 

 PiUrsh. (1860) t. 1, 2 ; 3-6 (I)orettia).—H.. Bn. 

 Diet. Fncycl. Sc. M4d. ser. 4, i. 728 (Ferulago, 

 Ferula).— d'B.ETit. et Godr. Fl. deFr. i. 686 (Aiie- 

 thum), 687, 691 (Ferula), 693 (PasUnaca).— 



Wa.lv. Sep. ii. 407 (Ferula), 408 (Dorema), 409, 

 412 (Furyptera, Leptotania), 413 (Bubon, n. 1); 

 V. 873 ( Uloptera), 874 (Ferulago), 877 (Ferula), 

 879 (Dorema), 881 (Tommasinia), 882, 885 (Fu- 

 rgptera, Xantkogalwia), 886 (Pastinaca); Ann. i. 

 351 (Ferulago, Seorodosma), 353 (Pastinaca) ; ii. 

 704 (Ferulago), 706 (Steganoteenia, Ferula), 707 ; 

 708 (Alvardia), 709 (Anethtmi),%W (Archemora, 

 Pastinaca) ; v. 73 (Ferula), 74 (Seorodosma, 

 Dorema), 75 (Tmniopetalum), 76 (Pastinaca, Fu- 

 ryttgnia). 



' With white, yellow or even pink flowers. 



