UMBELLIFEB^. 229 



compressed contrary to septum or 2-dymous from contracted 

 commissure. Mericarps transversely subterete ; primary dorsal and 

 intermediate ridges, sometimes also the lateral {Smyrniopsis ^) rather 

 prominent ; all sometimes scarcely conspicuous ; vittse in furrows 

 solitary or oftener oo , or few {Smyrniopsis), sometimes with thin 

 endocarp adhering to seed ; carpophore 2-partite. Seed subglobose 

 or ovoid, deeply hollowed at face ; cotyledons ovate, round or more 

 rarely linear oblong. — Glabrous perennial or biennial herbs ; leaves 

 radical 3-nately or 3-nato-pinnately decompound ; segments linear 

 (Eulophus) or broad dentate-lobed ; umbels compound ; involucral 

 bracts few or ; bracteoles of involucels oo , small, few or 0.^ 

 (Europe, north. Africa, west. Asia, Japan ?, north, and south. Andean 

 America.^) 



61. Conium L.^ — Flowers '' hermaphrodite or polygamous; calyx 

 short or 0. Petals obovate-cuneate, or broadly ovate (Vicatia °), emar- 

 ginate or subentire from slightly or scarcely impressed costa. Stylopods 

 depressed conical, entire or undulate (Vicatia) at margin. Fruit short- 

 (Euconium) or long-ovoid, compressed contrary to septum, constricted 

 at commissure. Mericarps obtusely 5-gonal ; primary ridges obtuse 

 or fihform, sometimes undulately crenulate ; vittse oo , thin, unequal 

 or (Euconium '') ; carpophore simple or shortly 2-fid. Seed angular 

 deeply sulcate at face. — Glabrous biennial or perennial herbs ; leaves 

 pinnately decompound ; segments inciso-pinnatifid ; umbels compound ; 

 involucral bracts few or 1, oftener small ; bracteoles of involucels oo , 

 small or linear. (North, hemisph. of both worlds, trop. east, and south. 

 Africa.^) 



' Boiss. A:in. Sc. Nat. scr. 3, ii. 72 ; Fl. Or. — Ekdl. Gen. n. 4532.— B. H. Gen. 883, n. 34.— 



ii. 927. H. Bn. Adansnnia, xii. 178i — Anosmia Asheks. 



' Qy. if of this gen. Nothosmyrnmm (Mia. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 225. — CiiMtaH.Insi.Z06, 



Am. Mus. Lugd.-JBat. iv. 58), a Japanese plant t. 1 60.— Gjertn. Fruct. i. 100, t. 22. — Hook. 



unknown to us, according to authors allied to Fl. Ind. ii. 679. 

 Smyrnium or to Pimpinella ? * White. 



» Spec, atout 10. Sibth. Fl. Qrcee. t. 289.— ' DC. Prodr. iv. 243.— Endl. Gen. n. 4533.— 



Sow. Engl. Bot. (ed. 3) t. 631.— Waldst. et B. H. Gen. 883, n. 34.— Hook. Fl.Ind. ii. 670. 

 "Kn:.- PI. Sung. Bar. t. 23. — All Fl.Pedenut. ? Yittas described by authors as very thin 



72. — SoH. Syst. yi. 440. — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et irregular ; pericarps appear externally parietal 



Sp. T. 15 [Onidium). — A. Gray, Bost. Jouru. Nat. rather thick yeUowiah. 



Hist. vi. 211 {Tausehia) ; Man. (ed. 5) 198 {Mu- ' Spec, about 3, one of which is C. maculatum 



fc^Aws).— Boiss. Jf;. 0;-.ii. 925. -GuEN. etGoDR. (p. 18.3, note 1). Concerning the others see 



Fl. de Fr. i. 749.— Walp. Ann. i. 357 ; ii. 722 Haiiv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 667. — Kl. 



[Smymifipsis). Waldem. Beis. Bot. t. 45, 46 {Charophyllum). 



* Gen. n. 336. — Hopfm. Umb. 99.— -Lao. —Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, v. 103; Fl. Or. ii. 



Amoen. ii. 103.— Koch, Umb. 135, fig. 40.— DO. 922.— A. Gray, Man. (ed. 6) 197.— Walp. Rep. 



Prodr. iv. 242.— Spach, Suit, d Buffon, viii. 179. ii. 425. 



