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37. UMBELLIFER^. — 38. HEDEEACE^. 
distinguished by its fcEtid smell, spotted stem, unilateral partial 
involucres, and wavy crenate ridges of the fruit. Highly poison- 
ous. — Hedge-banks and waste places. B. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
39. Danaa All. 
1. D. cornuhien' sis (Burnat) ; radical 1. triternate, leaflets 
wedge-shaped cut or deeply 3-lobed . with acute segments, 
stem-1. ternate lanceolate entire. — E. B. 683. Physospermum 
cornuhien se (DC). — St. 1 — 3 feet high, erect, round, striate, 
bearing a few small ternate leaves with linear-lanceolate 
segments, the uppermost represented by a barren lanceolate 
acute sheath. Umbels terminal and axillary, long-stalked. 
Carp, longer than broad ; the coat loose. Seed free. — Devon 
and Cornwall, rare. P. VII. VIII. E. 
40. Smyr'nium Linn, em., Koch. Alexanders. 
1. »S'. Olusdtrum (L.) ; st. terete, stem-1. ternate stalked 
serrate. — E. B. 230. — St. 3 — 4 feet high, stout, branched, 
leafy, furrowed. Radical 1. very large, 3 — 4 times ternate ; 
all with large membranous sheaths and large ovate shining 
cut and serrate leaflets. Fl. greenish yellow in rounded often 
dense umbels. Fr. nearly black, aromatic. — Waste ground 
and near ruins. B. V. VI. E. S. I. 
Suborder III. Ccelospermce. Tribe XIII. Coriandrece. 
41. Coeian'deum Linn. em. Hojfm. Coriander. 
[1. C. sativnm (L.).—E. B. 67.— St. 12—18 in. high, leafy, 
round, striate. L. bipinnate. cut, with broad roundish or wedge- 
shaped segments ; upper 1. more divided with linear segments. 
Fl. white. — Waste places, scarcely naturalized. A. VI.] E. S. 
Order XXXVIII. HEDERACE.E. 
Cal. 4 — 5 toothed, adnate to the ovary. Pet. 5 — 16, rarely 
wanting ; valvate in the bud. Stam. as many as the pet. and 
alternate with them or twice as many, inserted below the margin 
of an epigynous disk. Ovary with 2 or more cells. Styles as 
many as the cells. Fr. succulent or dry, of several cells each 
with 1 pendulous seed. Perisperm fleshy. Embryo minute 
(not so in our Hedera). — L. alternate without stipules. 
