198 THE UMBELLATE FAMILY. . [Scandia. 
In fields and waste places, throughout Europe and west-central Asia. 
Frequent as a cornfield weed in England, Ireland, and the south of Scot- 
land, but decreasing further northward. Jl. with the corn. 
XXVITI. MYRRHIS. CICELY.’ 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, with partial involucres of several 
bracts, and white flowers. Fruit narrow-oblong, not beaked. Carpels with — 
5 very prominent, acute ribs, which are hollow inside, and no vittas. 
Albumen of the seed with a deep longitudinal furrow on the inner face. 
A single species, scarcely distinct as a genus from Cherophyllum. 
1, M. odorata, Scop. (fig. 440). Sweet Cicely.—An erect, branching, 
hairy perennial, 2 to 3 feet high, with the foliage and habit of a Chero- 
phyllum and highly aromatic. Leaves large, thin, twice or three times 
pinnate, with numerous lanceolate segments, deeply pinnatifid and toothed. 
Umbels terminal, not large, with seldom more than 8 or 10 rays, and of 
these but few ripen their fruits. No general involucre; bracts of the © 
partial ones lanceolate, thin, whitish, with fine points. Fruits when ripe — 
6 or 7 lines to near an inch long; the very prominent ribs occasionally 
rough with minute hairs. | 
A native of mountain pastures, in central and southern Europe, from 
the Pyrenees to the Caucasus. Of ancient cultivation in more northern 
Europe, it has frequently established itself in the neighbourhood of cottages. 
In Britain, believed by some to be truly indigenous in the hilly districts 
of Wales, northern England, and Scotland, where, at any rate, it is per- 
fectly naturalized. £1. spring and early summer. 
XXIX. CONOPODIUM. CONOPODIUM. 
Leaves dissected. Umbels compound, either without involucres or with ° 
very few small bracts, and white flowers. Fruit oval-oblong, somewhat 
laterally compressed, shortly contracted at the top, with erect, or slightly 
spreading styles. Carpels with 5 scarcely perceptible ribs, and several 
very slender vittas under the interstices. Albumen of the seed with a 
longitudinal furrow on the inner face. | 
A genus of few species, chiefly from the Mediterranean region, with the 
habit of the tuberous Carums, but with a fruit more nearly allied to that 
of some Cherophyllums, although shorter. 
1. ©. denudatum, Koch, (fig. 441). Tuberous Conopodium.— The 
perennial stock consists of a globular tuber, known by the name of Harth- 
mut or Pignut; the annual stems erect, slender, glabrous, 1 to near 2 feet 
high, with a few forked branches. Radical leaves few and decaying early 
with 3 long-stalked segments, each once or twice pinnate; the ultimate, 
divisions short, narro w, pointed, entire or 3-lobed. Stem-leaves few, with 
narrow-linear divisions; the central lobe of each segment much longer 
than the lateral ones. Umbels terminal, or one opposite the last leaf, of 6 
to 10 rays. The ribs and vittas of the fruit are scarcely perceptible. — 
Bunium flecuosum, With. 
In woods and pastures, chiefly known as a west European plant, possibly 
extending eastward to the Caucasus, but there is some uncertainty as to 
the identity of the eastern species referred to it. Much more common in © 
