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39. ARALIACE.®. 
glaucous, spotted with purple, branched. L. tripinnate ; leaflets 
lanceolate, ])innatifld with acute cut segments. Readily distin- 
guished by its fcrtid smell, sj)otted stem, unilateral partial invo- 
lucres and wavy crenate ridges of the fruit. Highly poisonous. 
— Hedge-banks and waste places. B. VI. VII. Hemlock. 
40. PnYSOSPERMUM Cusson. 
I. P. cornubiense (DC.); radical 1. triternate, leaflets wedge- 
shajjcd cut or deeply 3-lobed with acute segments, stem 1. ternate 
lanceolate entire. — E. B. 683. — St. 1 — 3 feet high, erect, round, 
striated, minutely scabrous, hearing a few small ternate leaves 
with linear lanceolate segments, the up{)ermost represented by a 
barren lanceolate acute sheath. Umbels terminal. Cai’p. longer 
than broad ; the coat loose. Seed free. — Hooker refers P. agui- 
legifolium (Koch) to this; on the contrary, Bertoloni, with 
Hooker’s observations before him, states that they are quite dif- 
ferent. — Devon and Cornwall, rare. P. VII. VHI. E. 
41. Smyrnium Linn. 
I. S. Olusatrum (L.); st. terete, stem 1. ternate stalked ser- 
rate. — E. B. 230. — St. 3 — 4 feet high, stout, branched, leafy, 
furrowed. Radical 1. very large, all with large membranous 
sheaths andlarge ovate shining cut and serrated leaflets. FI. green- 
ish-yellow in dense rounded umbels. Fr. nearly black, aromatic. 
— Waste ground and near ruins. B. ? V. VI. Alexanders. 
Suborder TIL Coelosperma. Tribe XL Coriandrece. 
42. Coriandrum Linn. 
*1. C. sativum (L.). — E. B. 67.— St. 12 — 18 in. high, leafy, 
round, striated. L. bipinnate, cut; upper ones more (hvided 
into linear segments. FI. white. — Fields and waste places, an 
escape from cultivation. A. VI. Coriander. E. S. 
Order XXXIX. ARALIACE^. 
Cal. 4 — 5-toothed, adnate to the ovary. Pet. 6 — 16 rarely 
w'anting, aestivation valvate. Stam. as many as the pet. and 
alternate with them or twice as many, inserted below the margin 
of an epigynous disk. Ovary with more than 2 cells. Styles as 
many as the cells. Fr. succulent or drj', of several cells each 
w’ith 1 pendulous seed, endocarj) crustaceous. Albumen fleshy. 
Embryo minute (not so in our Hedera). — L. alternate without 
stipules. 
L Adoxa. Cal. half inferior, limb trifid. Cor. superior, 
4 — 5-eleft, rotate with a short tube contracted at the throat. 
