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oval, laterally compressed; carpels £ -ribbed, lateral ribs mar- 

 gined; intervals with single vitta?. — Herbs with dissected 

 leaves, perfect umbels, various involucres, and white flowers. 



C. Carvi, L. Caraway. 



Strtn 1 to 2 feet high, branched, smooth, striate. Leaves somewhat bipinnatifid, 

 with numerous linear segments, lower ones la'ge, on long petioles, with tumid, 

 clasping sheaths, rmbcls on long peduncles; involucrate bract when present 

 linear-lanceolate. Native of Europe. Cultivated for its fine aromatic fruit 



16. APIUM. Linn. 



Celtic apon, water; the plants grow in -watery situations. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals roundish, with a small 

 or narow infiexed point. Fruit loundish, laterally com- 

 pressed; carpels 5-ribbed, the inteivals with single vittae. — 

 European herbs, with pinnately dissei ted leaves; perfect umbeh 

 and white flowers. 



1. A. GRAVEOLENS, L. Celery. 



Lower leaves pinnately dissected, on very long petioles, segments broad -wedge- 

 shaped, incised ; upper leaves 3-parted, segments -wedge-shaped, lobed and incisely 

 dentate at apex. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, branching, furrowed. Umbels with unequal 

 spreading rays. Native of Britain. The stems t\ hen blanched are used as a sallacL 

 June, Aug. 



2. A. petroselixum, AYilld. Parsley. 



Leaves decompound, segments of the lower ones wedge-orate, terminal ones trifid, 

 all incised; cauline segments lance-linear, sub-entire; involucels of 3 to 5 subulate 

 bracts. Stem 2 to 4 feet high, branched. Lecves smooth and shining. June, 

 Native of Sardinia and Greece. Esteemed as apt t herb. 



17. PIMPINELLA. Linn. Anise. 



Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obcordate, somewhat un- 

 equal. Styles capillary as long as fruit. Fruit ovate, 

 ribbed, with convex intervals. — European perennial herbs, 

 with pinnately manypartcd leaves, tompound umbels without 

 involucres, and white flowers. 



P. Axisum, L. Anise. - 



Radical Laws incisely trifid; these of the stc m many-cleft, with narrow-linear 

 segments, smooth and shining. Umbels large, n any-rayed. Native of Egypt A 

 veil known aromatic carminative of the garden. 



18. FCENICULEM. Adans. Fennel. 



Lat. diminutive of fa>num, hay; from the resemblanee of its odor. 



Calyx-margin obsolete. Petals revolute, with a broad, 



