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of Carwrn.— Herbs ; rMzomate or tuberous rooted ; leaves S-nato- 

 pinnately dissected; umbels compound; bracts of involucres and 

 involucels oo , or oftener 0. (Europe, north. Afiica, west, arid mid. Asia.^) 

 43 ? Sison L.^— Flowers ' (nearly of Garum) asepalous ; point of 

 petals long-inflexed. Stylopods thick depressed. Fruit short-ovoid, 

 sub-2-dymous, compressed or constricted at commissure. Primary 

 ridges subequal obtuse. Vittse in furrows solitary and short, broadly 

 subclavate, sometimes interrupted, obtuse below. Carpophore 2- 

 partite. Face of seed nearly flat or sHghtly concave. Other cha- 

 racters of Garum. — k slender herb, 1-2-carpous; leaves pinnate 

 ijiciso-dentate or oo -fid; umbels compound ; involucral bracts setaceous 

 few ; bracteoles of involucels very small or 0.* (Europe, Levant.^) 



44. Ammi T.^ — Flowers' (nearly -of Garum) hermaphrodite or 

 more rarely polygamous ; calyx short or 0. Stylopods shortly 

 conical or depressed entire. Fruit ovate or Bub-2-dymous ; vittse in 

 farrows solitary ; carpophore 2-partite. Face of seed flat or slightly 

 concave. Other characters of Garum. — Perennial or 2-carpou3 

 glabrous herbs ; leaves decompound, 3-nato-pinnate ; segments serru- 

 late ; umbels compound ; involucral bracts oo , 3-sect or rarely entire ; 

 bracteoles of involucels oo , entire.^ {Europe, Medit. region, north.- 

 west. African islands.^) 



45. Cicuta L.'° — Flowers " nearly of Sison ; sepals acute. Stylo- 

 pods depressed entire. Fruit broadly ovate, suborbicular or broader 

 than long, sometimes subdidymous, compressed contrary to septum 

 and transversely elliptical, more or less constricted at commissure. 

 Primary ridges thick obtuse (white) ; epicarp thin, sometimes separable ; 

 vittae solitary, narrow or thick ;'^ carpophora 2-partite. Seed sub- 



' Spec. 6, 7. Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. i15{ScaligeHa). n. 53. — Visnaga GtMUTS. Fruct. i. 92, t. 21. — 



— Gren. et GoDR.i?/. deFr. i. 742 (Cmopodiimt), Gohoria Neck. Flem. n. 287. 



— Walp. Ann. iii. 900 (Heteroteema). ■ 7 White. 



5 Oen.n. 349. — Kocn, Uini. 12S.—liAa.Amoen. ' Gen. scarcely autonomous, rather a sect, of 



ii. 103. — DO. Prodr. iv. 110. — B. H. Gen. 892, Carum, involucral bracts occasionally divided, 



n. 57. ' Spec. 5, 6. Jacq. Ifoci. Vindob. iii. t. 26 



' WTiite. (Dbmcm).— Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1864.— 



■* Gen. scarcely autonomous, rather a sect, of Guss. PI. Bar. t. 25. — Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 273. — 



Carum, and differing from it as Heraeleum from Boiss. FL Or. ii. 891 (part). — Gken. et Gode. 



Petmedanum, viz. the vittae heing shorter than Fl. de Fr. i. 731. 



the fruit. '" Gen. n. 354. — Hofpm. Umb. 1 77.— Spreng. 



' Spec. 2. Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1859.— Umb. 19.— Koch, Umb. 129.— DO. Prodr. iv. 99. 



Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 893.— "Walp. Sep. 392 ; Ann. — Endl. Gen. n. 4391.— B. H. Gen. 889, n. 52.— 



ii. 697. Cicutaria T. Imt. 322 (part).— Lamk. Diet. ii. 2. 



• 6 Inst. 304, t. 159.— L. Gen. n. 334.— Spkeng. " White. 



Umi. Prodi: 41. — Koch, Umb. 122.— DC. Prodr, '2 jOommissural vittae broad, transverse sect. 



iv. 312.— Endl. Gm. n. 4404.— B. H. Gen. 889, subcruoiate. 



