UMBELLIFEB^. 



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Charophyllum 

 Cerefolium. 



Cheerophyllnm 



(Anthriscm) 



silvestre. 



is elongate^ more or less pointed at the top, with elongate seeds 

 whose face is more or less concave or furrowed. Ghmrophyllum (fig. 

 151-153) is particularly so. The summit of the fruit is attenuate 

 and the stylopbds are small, conical, entire or undulate at the 

 margin. The mericarps are somewhat compressed laterally and the 

 ridges are rarely prominent and suhalate. The 

 vittae are solitary; the carpophore is undivided or 

 bifid. It comprises herbs from all the temperate 

 regions of the world, having compound umbels with 

 the bracteoles of the involucels narrow or foliaceous, 



without involucre or with only one or 



two bracts at the base of the stems of 



the inflorescence. We unite as sections : 



Freyera, with narrow ridges and tu- 

 berous roots ; Anthriscus, whose, fruit, 



often a little shorter, is without ridges, 



with solitary vittae or none ; Oreo- 



myrrhis, from the mountains of South 



America, New Zealand and Australia, 



whose umbels are simple ; or rather 



the branches which bear them play the 



part of a principal axis of a compound 



umbel ; Grammosciadium, Levant herbs 



with multifid leaves and multifid bracts 



to involucres and involucels, whose per- 

 sistent sepals are much developed and seminal face 

 slightly concave. The primary ridges are dilated 

 to narrow wings. Rhabdosciadium, perennial Persian 

 herbs, are near this last section by their elongate 

 fruit; but instead of vittse they have irregular masses of resinous 

 substance in the furrows, and their inflorescence resembles that of 

 the Echinophorece and especially that of Crenosciadium, the fertile 

 flowers being sessile at the middle of the radii which bear male 

 flowers higher up. The leaves are often reduced to the petiole or 

 pinnatisect. 



Myrrhis (fig. 154, 155) is also very near Ohmrophyllum. It has an 

 elongate fruit, shortly .rostrate, with wider commissure, more promi- 

 nent, sometimes carinate primary ridges. The vittse are solitary, 

 very thin, or nil ; the face of the seed is concave or traversed by a 



Fig. 152. 

 Fruit {?)• 



Fig. 1-53. 

 Fruit (f). 



