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UMBELLIFERAE (PARSLEY FAMILY) 



1 C pinnatum DC. Segments of the leaves 2-3 pairs, narrow, distant, the 

 terminal one the longest. — McDonald Co., Mo. {Bush) to Kan. and Tex. 



28. LIG'frSTICUM L. Lovage 



Fruit oblong or ovate, flattened laterally if at all, glabrous : 

 carpels with prominent equal acute ribs and broad intervals, 

 oil-tubes 2-6 in the intervals, 6-10 on the commissure. Stylo- 

 podium conical. — Smooth perennials, from large aromatic roots, 

 with large ternately compound leaves, mostly no involucre, 

 involucels of narrow bractlets, and white flowers in large many- 

 rayed umbels. (Named from the country Liguria, where the 

 ofBoinal Lovage of the gardens abounds.) 



1. L. canadfinse (L.) Britton. (Nondo, Angelico.) Stem 

 stout, branched, 1-2 m. high ; leaves very large, ii-4-ternate ; 

 leaflets broadly oblong, 5-12 cm. long, coarsely serrate; fruit 

 ovate, 4-6 mm. long ; seed with angled back. (L. actaeifolium 

 of auth., not Michx.) — Rich ground, s. Pa. to Mo., and southw, 



2. L. s(;6thicum I^. (Scotch L.) Stem simple, 3-6 dm. high ; 

 leaves bitemate ; leaflets ovate, 2. 5-5 cm. long, coarsely toothed; 

 fruit narrowly oblong, 8-10 mm. long ; seed with round back. 

 — Salt marshes and rooks, along the coast from N. Y. northw. 

 Aug. (Eu.) Fig. 833. 



29. CORIAnDRUM [Toum.] L. Coriander 



Fruit nearly globose, not at all narrowed at the commissure ; ribs filiform 

 or acutish. Seed dorsally compressed, somewhat concave on the inner face. — 

 Slender glabrous herbs, with pinnately dissected leaves, compound umbels, no 

 involucre, few-parted involucels, and white or roseate unequal 

 petals. (The ancient Latin name.) 



1. C. SAxivDM L. Lower leaves pinnate, the leaflets flabelli- 

 form, many-cleft, cuneate at the base, upper leaves deeply cut 

 into linear segments. — Waste places, becoming frequent. (Adv. 

 from Eurasia.) 



30. AETHtrSA L. Fool's Parsley 



Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovoid-globose, slightly flattened 

 dorsally ; carpel with 6 thick sharp ribs ; oil-tubes solitary in 

 the Intervals, 2 on the commissure. — Poisonous annuals, with 

 2-3-ternately compound leaves, divisions pinnate, ultimate seg- 

 ments small and many-cleft, no involucre, long narrow involu- 

 cels, and white flowers. (Afflouo-a, burning, in allusion to the 

 bright or shining foliage, probably in translation of the Swedish vernacular 

 name glis.) 



1. A. CvNipinM L. A fetid poisonous herb, in waste or cultivated grounds, 

 from N. S. to Pa., Minn., and Ont. June-Aug. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 834. 



A, Cyna[>ium 

 xi. 



31. COELOPLEtRUM Ledeb. 



Fruit globose to ellipsoid, with prominent nearly equal thick corky ribs 

 (none of them winged); oil-tubes solitary in the intervals and under the ribs, 

 2-4 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp. — Stout glabrous (or inflo- 

 rescence puberulent) maritime perennials, with 2-3-ternate leaves on very large 

 inflated petioles, few-leaved deciduous involucre, involucels of numerous small 

 linear-lanceolate bractlets (often conspicuous or even leaf-like), and greenish- 

 'ffljite flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From koiXos, hollow^ and TrXeupdi/, a rib. ) 



