214 NATURAL HISTOBT OF PLANTS. 



28 ^thusa L.^ — Flowers^ (neiarly of (Enanthe) asepalous; petals 

 broad inflexed at apex and from depressed costa emarginate, spuriously 

 2-lobed, reduplicate-valved. Stylopods depressed. Fruit shortly 

 ovoid, transversely subterete ; carpels rather compressed at back. 

 Ridges very prominent thick, transversely 3- angular, suberose (white), 

 sometimes subcarinate. Vittse in farrows solitary, intrajugal very 

 thin or 0. Face of seed nearly flat. Carpophore 2-partite.^ — Gla- 

 brous annuals ; ^ leaves decompound, 3-nately pinnate ; umbels com- 

 pound, or terminal, or oppositifoHous ; involucral bracts 0, or 1, short ; 

 bracteoles of involucels 1-5,* setaceous, inserted externally at side of 

 inflorescence and descending.® {Europe, north. Asia.^) 



29. Crithmum T.' — Flowers subasepalous ; petals* broad in- 

 curved ; * point long induplicate.^" Stamens 5 ; filaments at first 

 incurved ; anthers cordate ; cells separated below by a short fold. 

 Stylopods depressed conical ; styles very short. Fruit ovoid-oblong ; 

 commissure broad; margins contiguous; exocarp thick suberose" 

 everywhere equal ; vittse oo ,'^ linear with thin endoearp adnate to seed 

 and with it separable from exocarp. Mericarps slightly compressed 

 parallel to septum, 5-gonal ; primary ridges subequal rather promi- 

 nent, 3-angular. Seed rather compressed, face flat. — A glabrous 

 branched perennial herb, shrubby at base ; leaves fleshy temato-pin- 

 nately decompound ; lacinise entire acute thick ; umbels decompound ; 

 bracts of involucre fohaceous ; " bracteoles of involucels few flat ; '* 



1892-1898,— Jacq. Hort. Vindob, iii. t. 62.— s With foetid odour. 



BoKY, i:xp. Moree, t. 9. — Wight, Icon, t. 668 « Generally 3 conspicuous. 



(Daiyloma), 571. — WALL.Ctei!. u. 7209 {Ammi). — ^ (Jen. certainly very near to (Enanthe, 



Bbnth. Fl.dustral. iii. 374 (Cranizia). — Hook. f. ^ 1 spec. ^. cynapium L. spread throughout 



Fl. Antaret. t. 100 {Crantzia) ; Handb. N. Zeal. the world. (See p. 183, note 5.) 



Fl. 89 {Crantzia). — Wedd. Chlor. Andina. ii. ' Inst. 317, t. 169. — L. Gen. n. 340 (part). 



t. 68 {Crantzia). — Schousb. Beob. Mar. 120. — Koch, (Jmb. 102.— DO. Prodr. iv. 164. Spach, 



MiQ. Ann. Muse. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 59 {Dasyloma). Suit, d Buffon, viii. 215. — Endl. Gen, n. 4449. 



— Clos. C. Gay Fl. Chil. iii. \16 {Crantzia). —A.. — B. H. Gen. 905, n. 92. 



Gray, Man. (ed. 5) 190 (Crantzia). — Chapm. Fl. « Green or yellowish. 



S. Unit. St. 159 {Crantzia), 162 {Biseopleura). — s Interior costa rather prominent and sepa- 



ToEB. Marc. Bxpl. Sed Riv. Louis. 287, t. 7 rating cells of alternate anthers. 



{Eurytauia). —'&oim. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, vi. 79 ; " Concerning valvate prefloration of petals 



Fl. Or. ii. 955.— Haev. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. see Seemann {Journ. Bat. ii. i) referring Crith- 



647.— Gkek. et GoDE. Fl. deFr. i. 713.— Walp. mum to the Mederacea on account of its ffistiva- 



Bl£p. ii. 384 {Crantzia), 399, 401 {Dasyloma) ; v. tion ; a genus, howeTer, differing widely from 



863 ; Ann. i. 347 ; iii. 898 ; v. 68. the Araliece especially in habit, leaves, and in- 



1 Gen. n. 355 (part). — Hoppm. Umi. 95, t. 1, florescence, 



fig. 5.— Spebng. Umb. 17. — Koch, Umb. HI.— n Resembling dry medulla. 



DO. Prodr. iv. 141.— Endl. Gen. n. 4424.— B. H. 12 Transversely septate suharticul^te. 



Gen. 907, M. 98. " Often to 8. 



' White. 14 Often 6, 3-angular-elongate. 



