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37. UMBELLIFEE^. 38. AKALIACE.E. 
lateral ovate-lanceolate with an attenuate point sliorter than the 
umbels. — E. B. 1191. — St. 3 — 5 feet high, erect, round, hollow, 
glaucous, spotted with purple, branched. L. tripiunate ; leaflets 
lanceolate, pinnatifid with acute cut segments. Readily distin- 
guished by its foetid smell, spotted stem, imilateral partial invo- 
lucres and wavy creuate ridges of the friiit. Highly poisonous. 
— Hedge-banks and waste places. B. Vl. \H. E. S. I. 
40. Physosper'mum: Cusson. 
1. P. cornnbien'se (DC.) ; radical 1. tritemate, leaflets wedge- 
shaped cut or deeply 3-lobed with acute segments, stem-1. temate 
lanceolate entire. — H. JS. 683. — St. 1 — 3 feet high, erect, round, 
striate, bearing a few small temate leaves with linear-lanceolate 
segments, the uppermost represented by a barren lanceolate 
acute sheath. Umbels terminal. Carp, longer than broad ; the 
coat loose. Seed free. — H. and A. refer P. aquiler/ifoliiim (Koch) 
to this ; Bertoloni, with Hooker's observations betore him, states 
that thev are quite difi'erent. — Devon and Cornwall, rai'e. P. 
vn. viii. E. 
41. Smyr'nium Linn. Alexanders. 
1. S. Olttsdtrum (L.) ; st. terete, stem-1. temate stalked ser- 
iate. — E. B. 230. — St. 3 — 4 feet high, stout, branched, leafy, 
furrowed. Radical 1. very large, 3 — 4-temate ; all with large 
membranous sheaths and large ovate shining cut and serrate 
leaflets. Fl. greenish yellow in dense rounded umbels. Fr. 
nearly black, aromatic. — Waste gi-oimd and near ruins. B.? V. 
VI. E. S. I. 
Suborder III. Coelospermce. Tribe XII. Coriandrea. 
42. Coria.n'drtjii Linn. Coriander. 
a sativum (L.).—E. B. 67.— St. 12—18 in. high, leafy, 
round, striate. L. bipinnate, cut, with broad wedgeshaped seg- 
ments ; upper 1. more divided with linear segments. FI. white. 
— Fields and waste places, scarcely naturalized. A. VI.] E. S. 
Order XXXVIII. ARALIACEyE. 
Cal. 4 — 5-toothed, adnate to the ovaiy. Pet. 5 — 16, rarel}' 
wanting; vixlvate in the bud. Stam. as mauv as the pet. and 
alternate with them or twice as many, inserted Wlow the margin 
of an epigynous disk. Ovai-y with 2 or more cells. Styles as 
man)' as tuo cells. Fr. .succulent or Ary, of several cells eacli 
with 1 pendulous seed. Albumen fleshy. Embryo minute (not 
