UMBELLIFEBm. 241 



flowers in more or less elongate fepikes or capitate; each 1-bracteate; 

 lower bracts smaller than the rest or oftener larger entire or lobed 

 and forming a more or less developed involucre, more rarely 

 {Alepidea ') very small under the flowers, irregularly disposed or 0. 

 {All warm and temp, regions.^) 



86. Astrantia T.^ — Flowers * polygamous ; sepals dentiform or 

 petaloid, sometimes very acute. Petals imbricate or valvate, from 

 intruded costa emarginate; point long-induplicate. Styles slender 

 free ; stylopods dilated to a short thick disk. Fruit ovoid or oblong, 

 either subterete, somewhat compressed at back {Euastrantia)', or 

 shghtly compressed contrary to septum (Hacquetia ^) ; carpophore 0. 

 Primary ridges subequal smooth (Hacquetia), or oftener {Eiutstrantia, 

 Actinolema ") raised and transversely plicate-dentate, rugose or lobed, 

 . not separable from endocarp (Actinolema^) or loosely inflated and 

 sepsaahle (Euastrantia). Intrajugal vittse generally " solitary. Seed 

 flat or concave. — Glabrous herbs ; subterranean part often tuberose ; 

 scapes simple leafless (Hacquetia), or with branched stem ; leaves 

 palmately lobed or dissected ; lobes dentate or incised ; umbels (?) 

 simple or irregularly compound, sessile (Actinolema), or pedunculate; 

 bracteoles of involucres oo , green (Hacquetia) or coloured ; inflores- 

 cences umbelliform ;'' male flowers longer-pedicellate ; some oftener 

 disposed around a female flower sometimes central. (Europe, Levant.^) 



87. Sanicula T.' — Flowers polygamous or monoecious; sepals 



1 Lakoche, Hist. Sryng. 19, 1. 1. — DC. Prodi: * White or pink. 



iv. 87.— Endl. Gen. n. 4385 B. H. Qen. 878, >> Necx. jBkm. n. 306.— DC. Prodr. iv. 85.— 



n. 18. Endl. Gen. n. 4383.— B.H. Gen. 879, n. 21.— 



' Jacq. Fl. A ustr. t. 391 ; Ic. Ra/r. t. 55, 347. Dondia Spreng. M4m. Mosc. v. 8 ; Vmb. Prodr. 



-CAV.JcoM.t. 552-656.— LABiLL.iV.-J2o«.t. 98. 21, fig. 2.— Koch, Umb. 140.— DO. Prodr. iv. 



— DEsr. Fl.Atl. t. 63-55.— Reichb. p. le. Fl. 85.— Endl. e«».ii. 4384.— B.H. Ge». 879, n. 21. 



Germ. t. 1847-1852.— Sibth. FL Qrcec. t. 258, — DondUia Reichb". Consp. 144 (not DC). 

 259.— WEDn. Chlor. Andina, t. 69, A.— Hook. » Fenzl. Fug. PI. Syr. 66, t. 12.— Boiss. Fl. 



Icon. t. 216.— A. (tKAY, Man. (ed. 6) 190.— Or. ii. 831. 



Ghapm. Fl. S. Tin. Si. 169. — Hook. p. Mandb. ? Concerning the centrifugal nature of the 



if. Zeal. Fl. 90. — Phil. Fl. Atamaso. 26. — Clos, younger inflorescence cf. H. Bn. Adansonia,~xA. 



0. Gay Fl. ChU. iii. 110. — Benth. Fl. Austral. 178. Elowers in inflorescence here and there 



iii. 369. — Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 533 surrounded by some sterile. 

 (Alepidea). — Hiekn, Qliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. iii. 2, 3' ' Spec, about 6. Jacq. Fl. Austr. v. t. add. 11 



(Alepidea). — "Boiss. Diagn. Or. ser. 2, ii. 72; v. {Maoqiietia). — Keichb. jj-. Ic. Fl, Germ. t. 184 i 



,97 ; Fl. Or. ii. 820.^Gken. et Gonii. Fl. de Fr. {Snequetia), 1843-1846.— Sm. Ficot. Bot. ii. t. 76, 



i. 763.— Walp. Sep. ii. 389 ; v. 846 ; Ann. i. 77.— Salisb. Par. t. 60.— Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 830.' 



343, 979 ; ii. ,694 ; v. 64. — Gken. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 752.— Walp. 



' Inst. 314, t. 166.- L. Qen. n. 327.— Lamk. Pep. ii. 388; v. 846 {Actinolema) ; Ann. v. 64. 

 Diet. i. 322 ; III. t. 191.— Lag. Amoen. ii. 97.— ' Inst. 326, t. 173.— L. Gen. n. 326.— J. Gen. 



KoOH, Umb. IS8.— DC. Prodr. iv. 86.— Space, - 226.— Hoffm. Prodr. f/»i4. 66.— Spreng. Prodr. 



.Suit, d Buffon, viii. 216.— Endl. Gen. n. 4384. Vmb. 24.— DC. Prodr. iv. 84.— Endl. G<n. n. 



^B. H. Gen. 879, n. 20. 4382.— B. H. Gen. 880, n. 22. 



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