203 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



face of seed flat or nearly so. — Annuals; habit leaves and inflorescence 

 of Dawcrts; bracts of involucre and iuvolucels oo , linear or setaceo- 

 lobed. {West. Asia?) 



6. Laserpitium T.= — Flowers nearly of Daucus ; sepals very small 

 or 0. Stylopods conical or depressed, not or scarcely marginate. 

 Fruit oblong ; commissure not or slightly constricted ; primary ridges 

 scarcely visible or linear ; secondary expanded to vertical entire or 

 sinuate or dentate and oftener undulate wings. Lateral wings ^ gene- 

 rally broader than dorsal and continuous with flat commissure. Vittse 

 under secondary ridges solitary.* Carpophore 2-partite. Face of 

 seed flat or more or less concave. — Perennial herbs ; leaves pinnately 

 or temately decompound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , 

 linear or membranous.^ {Europe, west. Asia, north. Africa.^) 



7. Thapsia T.' — Flowers ' nearly of Laserpitium ; sepals small or 

 scarcely visible. Stylopods various, small or conical, sometimes 

 marginate or undulate. Fruit ovately oblong, dorsally compressed ; 

 secondary lateral ridges dilated to broad wings ; dorsal linear or pro- 

 duced to narrow wings ; ^ primary filiform scarcely prominent. Face 

 of seed complanate (Euthapsia), or oftener deeply sulcate or involute 

 (Elceoselinum "). — Perennial or dicarpic herbs ; leaves pinnately de- 

 compound ; segments inciso-pinnatifid or setaceous ; umbels com- 

 pound ; bracts of involucres and involucels oo , narrow, sometimes 

 few or 0. [Mediterr. reg., Madeira.^^) 



^ Spec. 1. A. squamaia L. Sp e. 347. — Sibth. Germ. t. 1985-1996. — Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 1014. — 



Fl. Grac. t. 268. — Jaue. et Spaoh, III. Or. t. Gken. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 679. — Walp. Hep. 



430. —Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 1070.— ^mmj anethifo- ii. 418 ; v. 896 ; Ann. ii. 715 ; iii. 899 {Guillo- 



lium Ledeb. Fl. Rosa. ii. 246 (not Lamk.). nea). 



2 Inst. 324, t 172.— L. Gen. n. 344 (part).— ? T. Imt. 321, t. 171.— L. Gen.n. 361.— Koch, 



Si'BENG. Prodr. Umb. 17.— Koch, Umb. 74.— Umb. 74.— DC. Frodr. iv. 202.— Endl. Gen. u. 



DO. Frodr. iv. 204.— Endl. Gm. n. 4492.— B H. 4490.— B. H. Gen. 930, n. 151 (part). 

 Gen. 929, n. 149.— «&r Mosnch. Meth. 164.— s ^mdte, yellowish or purplish. 



? Laser Baumo. Enum. PI. Trans, t. 227 (ex B. 9 Sometimes also (ahnormally) rather broad. 



'K.)—GuiUonea Coss. PI. Nom. Esp. 199 (ex " Koch, DC. Prodr. iv. 216.— Endl. Gen. 



B- H.). n. 4498.— B. H. Gen. 930, n. l52.—Margotia 



' Sometimes all imperfect or decayed. Boiss. Elench. PI. HUp. Austr. 52 ; Voy. 263, t. 



* Vittae sometimes also very thin in the pri- 79. 



mary ridges. ii Spec, about 7. Dtsp. Fl. All. t. 69, 72 



* Flowers white or yellowish. (^Laserpitium) Sibth. Fl. Grcee. t. 286, 287.— 



« Spec, about 18. Jacq. Fl. Au-tr. t. 145, 146, Bebtol. Fl. Ital. iii. 383. -Boiss. Voy. Esp. t. 



153 ; Ic. Bar. t. 58, 350.— Cav. loon. t. 190.- 76-79 {Elxoseliimm) ; Fl. Or. ii. 1007, 1068 ' 



Desf. Fl.Atl. t. 75 (rAffi>«n).— Waldst. etKiT. {Elceoselinum}.— Walp. Sep. ii. 417, 420 '{Elwo- 



Pl. Ear. Hung. 1. 192, 253. — Eeichb. r. Icon. Fl. selinum). 



