CXIIL UMBELLIFEE^. 



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Scandix Pecten-Veneris, 



Umbel without involucre ; umbellules with 



invohicels. 



Scandix. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Scandix /'ecfen- Veneris. 



Fruit. Undivided carpophore. 



Carpels with five primary sides, 



prolonged into a long be:ik. 



tSiandix. 



Transverse 



section of 



carpel (mag.). 



Scandix^ 



Traneverse section of 

 a 5-sideol carpel, 

 with non-vittate 

 furrows, and seed 

 furrowed on its 



vonti'al face (mag,). 



Eryngium planum. Capitulum. 



Coriandef. 



Pistil and calyx 



with unequal 



limb. 



Angelica. 



Seed covered 



with numerous 



bands (nrag.). 



Eryngiwn, 

 Stamen inflected in 

 aestivation (mag.). 



Coriander. 



Flower, with outer 



petaJs largest. 



Co7'iander. 



Fruit (mag.). Hemispherical 



carpels with five primary 



flexuous sides ; secondary 



sides more prominent, 

 keeled ; furrows not vittate. 



IJydrocotyle. 

 Compressed fruit 



(mag.), with 



keeled sides aixl 



wom edges ; furrows 



non-vittate. 



it are called intermediate ridges ; and the two on each side of the carpel are called 

 lateral ridges ; the intervals which separate the primary ridges ax'e called furrows^ 

 and are sometimes occupied by other or secondary ridges. Longitudinal resiniferous 

 canals, called vittWy are developed in the thickness of the pericarp, and placed in the 

 furrows, or on their commissural surface, or on the seed itself; they may be some- 

 times absent. Seed pendulous, free or adhering to the pericarp. Embrto straight,, 

 minute, at the top of a horny albumen ; radicle superior. 



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