350 
41. TT1IBELLACEJE. 
w. membranous margins, and produced into fine w. awn-like 
points, longer than or equalling the rajs. Fr. small 1^-2 millim. 
long, shortly oblong or oval erect smooth strongly angular with 
conspicuous prominent sharp pale ribs. Yittae 6, 4 dorsal equi- 
distant, 2 commissural subapproximate. Yarr. or rather tran- 
sitory forms : 
cl. heterophylla ; root and lower st.-l pinnate or bipinnate with 
broad leaflike simple lfts., upper 1. 2-pinnatisect or multifid with 
lanceolate or linear gashed or serrate lfts. — A. majus Linn. Sp. 
349 (not Herb. Linn.!); Gouan! Bertoloni! Kotscliy! Bourgeau! 
Bromfield ! in HK. ; Sloane ! Herb, in BH. vol. 9. p. 16 ; 83. 
p. 138 (from Plukenet) ; 84. p. 16 (do.) ; 85. p. 23 (do.) ; 167. 
p. 317 ; Yill. Dauph. ii. 591 ; Desf. i. 245 ; Brot. i. 143 ; Buch 
195. no. 291; DC. iv. 112 (excl. forsan syn. Sibth. FI. Gr.); WB. 
ii. 149 ; RFG. t. 1864. A. vulgare Ger. 881. f. 1.— Mad., PS., 
reg. 1, 2, ccc ; GD. reg. 2, £. Cornfields and waste ground, road- 
sides, &c. everywhere especially about Funchal to the E. (Cani^o 
road) and W. (Loo-fields, Praia, &c.). Apr. -Aug. — From 6 to 
18 in. high. Lfts. of lower 1. very glaucous round or roundish 
obovate or oval closely and sharply serrulate with w. sphacelate 
or cartilaginous fine teeth. Upper lfts. gradually more and more 
nan- 0 wly lanceolate and either gashed or deeply serrate. Umbel 
20-30-rayed. 
This, especially in the form with more finely multi fid upper 
1., is no doubt the pi. mainly at least intended by Linnaeus in 
his Sp. PI., though the original spec, in his Herb, (marked u 1. 
majus ”) is something altogether different (in habit more re- 
sembling Petroselinum sativum Hoffin. than this or any other 
Ammi with which I am acquainted), and although he has pinned 
to this pseudotype a spec, from the Upsal Garden (marked by 
him originally “ Ammi perenne IIU.” with the word “ perenne ” 
erased and “ majus ” written over it), which, from its finely de- 
compound 1. with fine linear segm., many- (35-42-) rayed umbels 
and long conspicuous gen. invol. longer or as long as the very 
slightly scabrous rays, is rather possibly an upper portion of my 
A. jrrocerum. Indeed but for the improbability that so fine a 
sp., if it existed really on the continent of Europe, could have 
been overlooked by more recent botanists, I should be tempted 
to refer to A. proccrum several of the older synonyms quoted by 
Linn, for his A. majus , — a name which I once thought might 
have been intended specially to indicate A. proccrum, but which 
on investigation seems to have been merely taken up by him 
