220 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



small or 0. Petals 5, unequal, retruse from costa being more or less 

 intruded and margins dilated, emarginate, spuriously 2-lobed, or 

 more rarely entire ; point short or long inflexed. Stylopods high or 

 depressed conical, entire at margin, sinuate or crenate. Fruit ovoid 

 or oblong-ovoid, laterally (contrary to septum) more or less compressed 

 oxalate ; primary ridges subequal hardly prominent ; carpophore 2- 

 partite or 2-lid, rarely entire, sometimes 0. Intrajugal vittse rarely 

 very thin, often 0. Face of seed flat, rather convex or slightly con- 

 cave. — Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or in parts pilose or 

 hispid ; leaves pinnate or ternately or pinnately decompound, rarely 

 simple, entire or dentate ; umbels compound ; involucral bracts oo , 

 or oftener ; bracteoles of involucels oo , sometimes few or 0. {All 

 warm and temp, regions of the world.) — See p. 117. 



41? Froriepia C. Koch.^ — Flowers '^ nearly of OarMm ; "Sepals 

 very short. Petals oblong, cordate at base, apex coarctate in inflexed 

 lacinule, medially carinate on upper face. Fruit ovoid laterally 

 compressed. Mericarps with 5 primary and 4 secondary ridges ; all 

 filiform prominent equal ; the lateral marginate. Stylopods depressed. 

 Furrows evittate. Carpophore 2-fid at apex. Albumen convex, 

 anteriorly rather flat." — Glabrous biennial herbs,^ stem naked virgate'; 

 leaves lateral pinnatisect ; cauline reduced to sheaths ; umbels shortly 

 or very unequally 3-4-radiate ; bracts of involucres and involucels short 

 oblong-lanceolate acute membranous.* (Transcaucasia, north. Persia.^ 



42. Bulbocastanum Lagasc* — Flowers ^ (nearly of Carum) poly- 

 gamous, subasepalous. Petals obovate, emarginate or spuriously 

 2-fid from inflexed apex. Fruit oblong or ovate-oblong, constricted 

 at commissure, somewhat compressed laterally, shortly attenuate at 

 apex. Primary ridges subequal filiform. Vittse oo , continuous or 

 interrupted, often very thin or obscure. Carpophore 2-fid or 2- 

 partite. Face of seed concave or deeply sulcate. Other characters 



1 Linncea, xvi. 362.— Boise. M. Or. ii. 857 Sohur, nor Koch). — Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic. i. 340. 



(whence the gen. char, here given). — Conopoditim Koch, Nov. Acta Nat. Car. xii. 



2 '• Greenish white." (1824) 118 (part).— B. H. Gen. 896, n. 66.— 



' " Face of Petroselinum segetum." Bunium DC. Frodr. iv. 116, 117 (part). — Sphalle- 



* " Gen. by the presence of secondary ridges roearpus Bess. DC. Mim. v. 60, t. 2N ; Prodr. 

 and absence of vittse distinct from Petroselinum iv. 230. — Endl. Gen. n. 4509. — Scaligeria DC. 

 as Mumia irom Trinia." (BoiSB.) M^. 70; Frodi: iv. 248.— Endl. Gen. n. 4544. 



* Spec. 1. F. subpinnata. — F. nuda C. Koch. — — Sutinia Boiss. Flench. Fl. Misp. Austr. 53 ; 

 Buplemum suipiimatum Ledeb. Eichw. Fl. Ear. Voy. Fsp. 270, t. 80. — Flcmsticta Fenzl, Flora 

 Casp. (1831-1833) 13, t. U.—Fetroseliiium sege- (1843), 468.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 6^i.—Setero- 

 tum Ledeb. Fl.Eoss. ii. (1842) 242 (not Koch). tania Boiss. Toy. Fsp. 267, t. 80 A. 



' Amwn. Ac. Madr, (1811) 99 (not Adans. nor ' White. 



