228 PARSLEY ORDER 



slightly flattened with low corky ribs, oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 

 on the commissure side ; flowers in compound umbels ; leaves 2-3-pinnate ; 

 stem perennial. 



Stems 3-8 ft. high ; leaves 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets lance- 

 olate ; fruits 2-3 mm. long C. maculdta 



Conioselinum Hoffmann 1814 



(From the names of two similar genera) 

 Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth none, petals 5, white, 

 stamens 5, ovary 2-ceiled, stylopodium low conic, fruit oval to oblong, 

 flattened dorsally, carpels with prominent ribs, the lateral ribs broadly 

 winged, oil-tubes usually 2-3 in the intervals and 4-8 on the commissure 

 side ; flowers in compound umbels ; leaves pinnate ; stemmed perennial. 

 Stems 2-5 ft. high ; leaves twice pinnate ; leaflets pin- 



natifid ; fruit 4 mm. long C. scopulorum 



Cymopterus Rafinesque 1819 



(Gr. kyme, wave, pier on, wing, from the fruit) 



PI. 35, fig. 27. 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth usually distinct, petals 

 5, white or yellow, stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium none, fruit ovoid, 

 flattened dorsally, carpels with 3-5 equal wings, oil-tubes 1 -several in the 

 intervals ; flowers in terminal umbels ; leaves once to twice pinnate ; stem- 

 less dry land perennial. 



1. Flowers white 



a. Each carpel of the fruit broadly 3-5-winged C. acaulis 



b. Each carpel with but 2 lateral wings C. lapidosus 



2. Flowers yellow 



a. Leaves 2-3-pinnate C. Fendleri 



b. Leaves once pinnate or merely lobed C. Nezvberryi 



Cynomarathrum Coulter and Rose 1900 

 (Gr. kyon, kynos, dog, marathron, fennel) 



Sepals 5, united and grown to the ovary, teeth evident, petals 5, yellow, 

 stamens 5, ovary 2-celled, stylopodium flat ; fruit oblong, flattened dorsally, 

 each carpel with distinct or winged ribs, broadly winged laterally, oil-tubes 

 usually 3-5 in the intervals, 6-10 on the commissure side; flowers in terminal 

 umbels; leaves 1-2-pinnate; mostly stemless perennial. 

 1. Pedicels 2-6 mm. long, shorter than the fruit; 



leaves smooth C. Nuttdllii 



