UMBELLIFER^. 201 



in fruit much incurved connivent; bracts of involucre spinescent 

 accrete rigid unequal ; of involucels oo ; the .exterior oftener rigidly 

 spinescent and long open.* {The EasV) 



4. Cuminum L.' — Flowers oftener hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 tubular. Sepals 5, unequal subulate. Petals unequal. Fruit oblong, 

 pointed top and bottom, laterally sub-compressed. Mericarps sub- 

 terete, slightly constricted at commissure, somewhat compressed dor- 

 sally. Primary ridges 5, equal, filiform, scarcely prominent, either 

 glabrous (Trepocarpus *), or, with the secondary, oftener papillose- 

 hispid {Eucuminum) ; secondary generally stronger subequal-linear, 

 sometimes indurate (Trepocarpus). Vittse under secondary ridges 

 solitary thin or thick. Stylopods small, depressed conical. Seed 

 semiterete, face rather concave. — Annuals, sometimes odorous, 

 slender ; leaves pinnately decompound or ternately dissected, glabrous; 

 segments linear ; umbels ' compound ; bracts and bracteoles of invo- 

 lucres and involucels slender or setaceous, entire or more rarely 3-fid. 

 (The East, N. America.^) 



5. Artedia L.' — Flowers nearly of Daucus ; petals generally very 

 unequal.® Germen dorsally much compressed ; stylopods pulvinate 

 or depressed conical, oftener entire at margin. Fruit oval, much 

 compressed at septum ; margins (in secondary lateral ridges) expanded 

 to a wing continuous with flat commissure and deeply divided into 

 obtrapezoidal spathulate lobes. All the primary and the dorsal 

 secondary ridges linear slightly prominent. Vittsa under secondary 

 ridges solitary, broad, thin or subnil. Carpophore 2-fid or. 2-partite ; 



1 A plant hence in fruit analogous to CorioM- Prodr. iv. 201. — Endl. Gen. n. 4489. — B. H. 



drum, in inflorescence to Daucus and Ammiopeis, Oen. 926, n. 14J . 



from its spinescent bracts of carduaceous ap- ' Flowers white, 



pearance not unlike also some EehirMphorm. ' ' Spec. 2, one of which very common, very 



' Spec. 1. E. heterophylla Labill. — Boiss. Fl. likely the C. Cyminum L. cultivated everywhere 



Or. ii. 1069. in the East. (See p. 188, note 4.) 



3 Gen. n. 351.— J. Gen. 221.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 7 Gen. n. 332.— Lamk. Diet. i. 276; III. 1. 173. 



224 ; III. 1. 194. — Gtjertn. Fruct. i. 107, t. 23. — — Speeno. Umb. Prodr. 18. — Lag. Amten. ii. 90. 



Spreng. Frodr. Umbell. 25.— Koch, Umbell. 81. Koch, Uitib. 76, fig. 9, 10.— DC. Prodr. iv. 208; 



— HoPFM. Umbell. ed. 2, 194.— DO. Prodr. iv. M^m.t. 19, fig. 7.— Endl. Gen. n. 4496.— B.H. 



201 (part).- Spach, Suit, ct Buffon, viii. 149. — Gen. 927, n. 144. 



Endl. Gen. n. 4488. — B.H. Oen. 926, n. 140. — 'The more external of the outer flowers 



Hook. J^. Ind. ii. 717. longest, white. 



* NuTT. ex DC. Mim. Ombell. 56, t. 14 ; 



