228 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



58. Physospermum Cuss.' — Flowers^ hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous ; sepals short or 0. Petals long or obovate ; point elongate 

 involute. Stylopods conical. Fruit shortly ovate or 2-dymous, con- 

 stricted at commissure ; mericarps transversely subterete ; primary 

 ridges scarcely prominent fiHform; vittse in furrows solitary large; 

 carpophore simple. Seed concave at face, transversely reniform.— 

 Glabrous perennial herbs ; leaves decompound, 3-nato-pinnate ; 

 segments incised ; umbels compound ; bracts of involucres and invo- 

 lucels 00 , linear. {Europe, Caucasian reg.^) 



59. Molopospermum Koch.^ — Flowers polygamous ; sepals very 

 small deciduous. Petals oblong entire ; apex acuminate incurved or 

 inflexed. Stylopods conical, at base entire or submarginate. Fruit 

 oblong-obovoid, compressed contrary to septum and much constricted 

 at commissure ; mericarps transversely unequally-4-gonal. Primary 

 dorsal and intermediate ridges expanded to thick prismatic wings; 

 lateral at commissure subaborted small, sometimes incurved ; vittse 

 in furrows solitary large ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed convex at 

 back, at face concave, deeply sulcata at vittse. — Glabrous perennial 

 herbs ; leaves pinnately decompound ; umbels compound ; bracts of 

 involucres and involucels cx3 , linear, sometimes foliaceous pumatifid. 

 {3Iid. and south-west. Europe.^) 



60. SmyrniTun T.^) — Flowers^ hermaphrodite or oftener poly- 

 gamous ; calyx minute or 0. Petals entire or emarginate. Stylopods 

 conical or depressed, sometimes undulates at margin {Eulophus ^). Fruit 

 ovoid or broader than long, but sometimes longer (Eleutherospermum^), 



' Ex. J. Mem. Soc. Mid. Par. (1782) 279. — ' Spec. 1. M. cicutarium DC. — Eeichb. p. Ic. 



Spreng. Mhn. Soc. Mosc. v. fig. 1-3.- — Koch, PI. Germ. t. 2012. — G-ken. et Godr. Iil. de Jfr. 



Umh. 134. — DC. Prodr. iv. 246. — Endl. Gen. n. j. 747. — Ligusticmn peloponesiacum L. Spec. 360. 



4540. — B. H. Gen. 882, n. 29. — Danaa All. FL — Jaoq. PL Ausir. App. t. 13. — L. peloponense 



Fedem. ii. 34, t. 63 (not Sm.). — Scensehra Lag. Lakk. Diet. iii. 576. — L. cicutarium Lamk. Fl. 



Gen. et 8p. Nov. 13. — AlscUnra Vis. Fl. Dalmat. Fr. iii. 453. — Cicutaria latifolia fcetida Bauh. 



iii. 69. PJB. 161. 



2 White. ^Inst. 315, t. 168.— L. Gen. n. 363.— Lag. 



' Spec, atout 3. Sm. Gen. Ic. Fid. t. 11 {Li- Awoen. ii. 101. — KocH, IJmh. 133. — DC. Frodr, 



guaticum). — Sow. EngC. Sot. (ed. 3) t. 630.— iv. 247.— Space, Suit. & Buffon, viii. 177.— 



Gus«. Prodr. i. 355.— Brot. Fl. Lus. 37 (Sison). Enul. Gen. n. 4541.— B. H. Gen. 886, n. 38. 

 — ^Walpst. et Kit. PL Ear. Bung. ii. 186, t. 171 ' Yellow or " white." 



(Zaserpitium). — Grhn. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. ^'Svit.DO. Mem. 6d,&g. 2; Prodr. iy.2i8. — 



748.— Walp. iJep. ii. 426. B. H. Gen. 885, n. iO. — Perideridia Eeichb. 



* Nov. Acta ISat. Cur. xii. 108.— DC. Prodr. Fflamensyst. 219.— Endl. Gen. u. 4543. 

 iv. 230.— Endl, Gen. n. 4610.— B. H. Gen. 882, 9 C. Koch, Linnoea, xvi. 366.— Brass. Fl. Or. 



r. 30. ii. 924. 



