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nas BE III. SANIcuLE#. Ovate glo pbsilons, wets carpels with five primary ribs, sili vittee ; 
sadery ribs covered with scales; peta note ard = -_ bag ook including ‘hata, 
hare ee and racemes of flowers are  substiited for a Wood-sanic e ( Sanicula 
pea oe the Erir ee the Starworts (A. ta), are mean Britieh ve fase args of t th iano 
pay MINES. Fruit did nase with five thread-like ribs, which become winged 
aas: yilndricatG or te grog on one side, eft 0 m the other; , Parsnips, and Skirrets 
(Stum), the Earth nut (Bunium), the Anise, or Burnet Saxifrages (Pimpinella). 
TRIBE V, SESELINE&. Fruit nearly eiiletioal: carpels Poss A compressed, with five thread- 
like oF winge ed nibs “inclu ree. gps Anes, or Horza ca, 2g and ee ae capensis, both acceptable 
t pe, and Meum, w weet aro ts form an hey Yona in 
Vene!ian renee ; sumibies ( Ehuhetcin Masttintiny.¢ the. Dreswenth (Cininthe, ~ Lichtenst 
pyrethrifolia, from the roots of which the Hottentots prepare an intoxicating beve 
TRIBE VI. ANGELICE&. Fruit coinpressed dorsally ; carpels five-ribbed ; at debe ribs, thread- 
like or winged, two ner a lateral and peeps into broader wings. This group includes Angelica root 
(4 Archon, elica psec bapa and sweet when first tasted, but pungent and bitter, leaving a glow- 
e. 
TRIBE wat, cae Fruit, compressed dorsally ; carpels with five thread-like limbs; fruit 
with one wing on each pr fattened; including the Hog’s Fennels ( Peucedanum), the typical genus. 
TriBE VIII. TorpyLiuM, or Hartworts, have the compressed fruit girded by dilated margin ; ribs 
dninoay: visible. 
TRIBE IX. ee: Carpels with five primary ribs, the side one emarginate, the secondary 
one less prominen 
TRIBE X. pec The fruit contracted laterally ; carpels with five thread-like primary ribs, the 
lateral ones marginating with four secondary, all wingless. These three sections include only a few 
genera, which are only known in Britain as at plants, and scarcely that. Cummin (Cuminum 
ce formerly used in medicine, is now confined to veterinary practice. 
TRIBE XI. THaP. Fruit coi my rsally ; carpels with five thread-like primary ribs, some- 
PS bristly, la eek mie ¢ on the comm ur secondaries, thread- Boel the outer _ all winged. 
Of the Zhapsie there is no British spec “pgp ele sylphium, a native of North America, was also 
known to the egret as ying & the “juice called Silphium, in the ne ighibourhood of psiaetad Lase- 
pati chat aromatic, ulating. 
TRIBE XII. DaucipE”. ees dorsally ; carpels with five bristly ech eats 
ribs, t ne iateeal ones on the set te face foe secondaries ominent, and gp ; seeds flattish, inclined 
to etindateal includes the Carro t (Daucus caro ta), which is common e' aoees by the way-side in its 
wild state, where its umbels form ee vh name it is sometimes called. 
Laces rae e CAMPYLOSPERM.. 
TRIBE XIII, ELzostne&. Fruit cylindrical, compressed from .the back; carpels furnished with 
primary iad ayn oh pe oh the two dorsals, secondaries, nerve-formed ; the two laterals expanded into 
wings, with th aved. 
Pecig ime ap UCALID. tracted from the de; éarpels with five thread-like prick! 
mary gf og and four selena cine sled the latter prominent oa prickly ; seeds involuie ; includes the 
Sas nao ( Caucalis), and the Hedge Parsleys ( Zorids). 
E XV. ScANDICE#. Fruit compressed laterally, usually beaked; carpels with primary ribs 
ealy: ‘winged lateral ribs, aioe all equal, obliterated at the base, but ee at the apex; 
€X, Wil cep jae in front, involute on the margin; Anthriscus, 
conv: 
or or Beakod Parsleys, poragg Pasay, and Chervils ( Cherophylium), Sweet Cicely aporke), and Shep- 
Soondi 
TRIBE XV. NE, Fruit inflated, com laterally ; carpels with five primary ribs only, 
later ones ot sures seeds involute, or fo, comprenned really, crescent Sad firey vernal ve 
some por’ tna ous plahts whole cig ed of the v e 
being the eee Hemlock { Conca. At vealatum bane, or Water eniook (Cienta virosa), is not 
— deadly, Some of the genera, however Aracucha esculenta, an inhabitant of the 
tableland of Grena has esculent roots “ike the Feleniy, but superior to it; and Prangos pabu- 
lari, a ae santo the arid plains of southern Tartary, is a favourite with the herds of sheep 
Which graze on the plains. 
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” Trine XVIT CoRIANDRE®. Fruit glebose, or of two globose cna, furnished with five 
depressed and flexuose ribs, all group incindes the sees ( sativum), it 
which the xgsinous and uromatic principle, which gives the a aaa somewhat foetid odour when merely 
bruised, gives the fruit a fragrant and aromatic of sagle 
The Umpentirer® thus include an immense variety of vege- 
table forms, some of them yielding valuable contributions to the 
