UMBELLIFER^. 



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Fig. 103. Trans, sect, of fruit ('■,=). 



vertical column at each primary ridge especially the marginal. 

 With these columns alter- 

 nate as many vittse, more cEnanthe a-ocata. 

 interior, and there are two 

 or .four corresponding to 

 each half of the very wide 

 commissure. The ovary 

 and the fruit are surmounted 

 by conical often elongate 

 stylopods, and moderately 

 developed pointed persis- 

 tent sepals. The face of 

 the seed is flat or traversed, 

 like the rest of its surface, 

 with vertical channels, 

 marked with prominent 

 vittse. (Erumlhes are found 

 in all parts of the old world. 



They are often aquatic herbs, with compound umbels, furnished with 

 numerous bracts, or with only one, or with none. The leaves may 

 be reduced to a rounded petiole as is constantly 

 the case in Crantzia, a small herb found in the 

 two Americas, New Zealand and Australia, 

 having the flowers and fruit of CEnanihe but in 

 simple umbels, which will characterize it as a 

 section. In CE. nodijlora, a Marocco specie^, 

 the fruit is that of (Enanthe, but it has a simple 

 or double carpophore, characteristic of a sec- 

 tion Sclerosciadium, also raised to the rank of 

 a genus, as have likewise been three American 

 ' types, Gynosciadum, Discopleura and Eurytwnia. 

 In the first the petals are entire or nearly so, 

 orbicular, concave ; the column is ordinarily 

 simple. The second has a simple or double 

 column, pointed or very slightly developed 

 petals, and the marginal ridges of .the fruit 

 are angular. In the third they are dilated to short wings ; and as 

 they are arranged in pairs they may be considered as connecting the 

 preceding types with certain sections oi Peucedanum. 



(Enanthe Phellandrium. 



Fig. 104. Fruit (f). 



