UMBULilFUBJE. 



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Carum {Pimpinella) Anisum. 



There are some C arums whose vittse are oscasionally geminated in 

 the furrows.' These species hereby connect themselves with Betro- 

 sciadium,^ more generally referred to the genus Pimpinella, and may 

 have in each furrow one, two or three 

 vittse, sometimes more or less connected. 

 Pimpinella^ proper (fig. 121) differs from 

 the true Carum only in the multiplicity of 

 vittse ; a character of no more value here 

 than elsewhere. Proof of this may be 

 found in the fruit of the Goutweeds (^go- 

 podium *), species of Pimpinella and Carum 



considered as having no vittse, but often 



possessing rudiments of them. more or less 



incomplete and irregular. 



Bunium ^ is also among those plants 



which intimately connect Garum with Pim- 



pinella. Those called Bunioides^ have 



numerous vittse, and thereby are connected 



with the latter. Those, on the other hand, as Bulbocastanum,'' which 



have solitary vittse in each furrow, approach much nearer to Garum 



proper. Elvendia ^ is inseparable from the Buniums with soHtary 



vittse, as is also Huetia,^ whose seed is rather more concave within. 



Kg. 121. Fruit (f). 



near section of Falcaria^ L'jmatocarum FieCH, et 

 Mey (Ir,d. Sent. Rort. Fetrop. vi. 59), included 

 with Selinum by Bentham and Hooker [Qen. 

 914), and differs from the Caraways only in the 

 length of the fruit. The vittse are solitary. 

 Notwithstanding its peculiar habit, we refer to 

 these types as a section Apitim Popei A. Gray, 

 which has been distinguished as a genus under 

 the name of Ammoselinum (Toer. et Ge. JExp. 

 Pope Rep. Bot. 165.— B. H. (?<-». 1009, u. 71 a). 

 It is an annual of western Texas, with decom- 

 pound leaves, a fruit rather more elongate than 

 those oi Apittm generally, with solitary vittse 

 and a carpophore often bipartite. On each side 

 of the face of the mericarp is a vertical thicken- 

 ing of whitish suberose tissue. The stylopods 

 are short and the petals entire. 



1 Or even temate. Such are C. rupestre, 

 gracu/m, multiflorum, HeMreichii, &o. 



^ Edgew. Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. 61. — B. H. 

 Gen. 895. 



' L. Gen. n. 366 (not T. nor Gjertn.).— 



Koch, Vmb. 120, fig. 66, 66.— DC. Mim. 42; 

 Prodr. iv. 119. — Endl. Gen. n. 4410.— B. H. 

 Gen. 893, n. 62.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 684. 



i L. Gen. n. 368. — Hoffm. JJmb. 82.— Kocii, 

 Vmb. 122.— T>G. Prodr. iv. 114.— Endl. Gen. n., 

 4406.— B. H. Gen. 893, n. 61. — Podagraria Kiv. 

 Penlap. t. 47. — Mcench. MetA. 89. — Lob. Icon. 

 t. 700, fig. 2. 



<• L. Gen. n. 336 (part).— DC. Prodr. iv. 116 

 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 4407 (part). 



^ B. H. Gen. 894. — Bunium KooH, Syn. Fl. 

 Germ. ed. 2, 316 (not L.).— DC. Prudr. iv. 16 

 (part). 



' ScHiTE, Enum. PI. Trans. 249 (not Lag.). 



8 Boiss. Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, i. 140. 



» BoiBS. Dlagn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 103 ; Fl. Or. ii. 

 897.— SiBTH. et Sm. Fl. Grac. iii. 67, t. 274 

 (Freyera). Geoca/ryum (Coss. et Duit. PI. Nom. 

 et Crit. d'Fsp. 112) has the seeds of Carum, with 

 narrow conical stylopods and ought to he re- 

 ferred to this last genus (B. H. Gen. 891). 



