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stipules 0. Flotcers hemaphrodite or polygamous, in compound 

 umbels (simple in Hydrocottle and Buplenrum), the outer flowers 

 of the umbel sometimes with, larger and unequal petals ; primary- 

 umbels with an involucre of bracts at the base, and the secondary 

 umbels often with a similar involucre of bracteoles. Calyx'tuhe 

 adnate to the ovary ; limb or 5-toothed. Petals 5, epigynous, often 

 with the apex infiexed, valvate or imbricate. Stamens 5, epigynous. 

 Ovary inferior. 2-celled. disk 2-lobed; styles 2 ; stigmas capitellate ; 

 ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit of 2 indehiscent dorsally 

 or laterally compressed carpels, separated by a commissure ; carpels 

 each attached to and often pendulous fi'om a slender often forked axis 

 (carpophore), with 5 primary ridges (1 dorsal, 2 marginal and 2 inter- 

 mediate), and often 4 secondary ones intercalated between these -.peri- 

 carp often traversed by oil-canals (vittse). Seed 1 in each carpel, 

 pendulous, albumen cartilaginous, — Species about 1,500, mostly in the 

 temp, regions of the N. Hemisphere, a few tropical and natives of the- 

 S. Hemisphere. 



Leaves undivided. 

 Leaves orbiciilar or reniform, crenate ; 

 umbels simple ..... 



Leaves linear or oblong, entire ; umbels 

 compound ...... 



Leaves divided, nmbels compound. 



Secondary ridges ^ of fruit inconspicuous 

 orO. ■ 

 Fruit laterally compressed, not winged. 

 Umbels leaf-opposed, short-peduncled; 



bracts and bracteoles . 

 Umbels terminal and leaf-opposed, 

 bracts and bracteoles present . 

 Fruit widest at the commissure, not 

 winged. 

 Petals yellow, leaf -segments filiform . 

 Petals white or pink. 

 Fruit subglobose, ridges thick,but 

 not corky .... 



Fruit ellipsoid ; lateral ridges large, 

 triangular, corky 

 Fruit much dorsally compressed, lateral 

 ridges winged ..... 



Secondary ridges of fruit prominent. 

 Fruit glabrous. 

 Fruit globose, bracts . ^ . 

 Fruit narrowly oblong ; bracts linear, 



rigid 



Fr.tit bristly 



1. Hydrocottle.. 



2. Btjpletjktjm. 



3. Apium. 



4. Caetjm. 



5. fceniculum.. 



6. Seseli. 



7. CEnanthe. 



8. Peucedanum. 



9. coeiandeum.^ 



10. CUMINTJW. 



11. Daucus. 



