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69 ? Rhabdosciadium Boiss.' — Flowers ^ polygamous (nearly of 

 Chmrophyllum) ; sepals acute, persistent. Petals emarginate ; point 

 inflexed. Stylopods conical. Fruit linear-elongate, somewhat or 

 scarcely compressed contrary to septum. Primary ridges subequal 

 obtuse, or the marginal dilated to narrow wings. Vittae in furrows 

 solitary, thin or irregular ; the commissural wider. Carpophore 2-fid. 

 Seed at face more or less concave. — Glabrous perennial herbs ; 

 branches few-leaved ; leaves reduced to petioles, or the lower with a 

 scanty hmb ; segments few, dentate or lobulate ; umbels compound ; 

 central flower sessile fertile; surrounding males pedicellate.' (Persia.*) 



70. Myrrhis T.° — Flowers* polygamous (nearly of Ghcerophyllum) ; 

 sepals very small or 0. Petals spuriously emarginately 2-lobed. 

 Stylopods shortly conical or pulvinate, oftener entire. Fruit oblong- 

 or elongate-linear, compressed contrary to septum, more or less con- 

 stricted at commissure ; mericarps 5-gona].. Primary ridges equal, 

 rather thick or acutely prominent, sometimes ciliate (Osmorhiza ') ; 

 carpophore thin or rather thick, 2-fid ; vittae in furrows very thin or 

 0, sometimes oo (Osmorhiza). Face- of seed more or less deeply 

 sulcate. — Perennial herbs, glabrous or hirsute, often very aromatic; 

 leaves pinnately or ternato-piunately decompound ; segments dentate 

 or pinnatifid ; umbels compound ; involucral bracts very few or ; 

 bracteoles of involucels oo , membranous, sometimes deciduous or 0. 

 (Mount. Europe, north, and east. Asia, India, N. and south, temp. Andean 

 America.^) 



71. Scandix T.' — Flowers ^^ (of Chmrophyllum) hermaphrodite or 



{Anthriscusl, 905, 908 {Orammosdadinm) ; Ann. — Hook, Fl. Ind. ii. 690. — TJraspermum Nutt. 



ii. 718 ; V. 78, 79 {Oreomyrrhis). Gen. Nov. Amur. i. 192 (not J.). — Spermatwa 



1 Atm. So. Nat. ser. 3, ii. 68; Fl. Or. ii. 898. Ebichb. Consp. 141. 



— B. H. Gen. 898, u. 72 (part). ' Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 2013.— Hook. Fl. 



2 " White." Bor.-Amer. t. 96, 97 {Osmorhiza).— -Tokb.. Fl. N. 

 ' Pedicels springing from axil of bract sessile Yorlc, t. 38 {Osmorhiza). — Royl. III. Himal. t. 52 



at bottom of receptacle; whence inflorescence {Osmorhiza). — A. G-ray, Man. (ed. 5) il97 {Os- 



Bomewhat resembles that oi Petagnia. The morhiza). — GvJi^is..Fl.S.Un.St.\66 {Osmorhiza). 



flowers also resemble Crenosciadium. — Fb. et Sat. Enum. PI. Jap. i. 183 [Osmorhiza). 



* Spec. 3. Boiss. he. c/i.— Walp. Rep. v. 909. — S.-Wats. King'sMep. Bat. 122.— Boiss. Fl. Or. 



5 Inst. 315 (part), t. 166.— Soop. PL Carniol. ii. 910.— Gken. et Godk. Fl. de Fr. i. 746. — 



i. 207.— DO. Prodr. iv. 231.— Enel. (?«n.n. 4513. Walp. Mep. ii. 423 {Osmorhiza, Glycosma). 



— B.H. Gen. 897, n. 69.— ZiBf^eca Adans. Fam. » Inst. 326, t. 173.— L. Gen. n. 357 (part).— 



des PI. ii. 499 (not Thune.). — Glycosma Nutt. GjEHTn. Fruot. ii. 33, t. 85. — Lag. Amaen. ii. 37. 



Torr.etGr.il ..ime?-. i. 63 9.— Endl. Gen. — Koch, ?7mi. 132.—DC. Pro^^r. iv. 220.— Endl. 



n. 4516'. Gen. n. 4504.— B. H. Gen. 899, n. 73.— Hook. 



« White. Fl. Ind. ii. 692. 



'Haein. /oMr«. PAy«, 89. — DO. Proi^f. iv. 232. '"White or yellowish-green, oftener very 



— Endi. Gen. n. 4615. — B.H. Gen. 897, n. 68. small crowded. 



