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xxxviii. L’mbellifeiee. \_Smyrnium. 
and laeiniate or deeply tripartite, the segments 'acute, glabrous or 
minutely downy on the veins and margins. Cauline leaves few, small, 
less divided, the segments longer and slenderer. The coat of the 
carpels is crustaceous and so loose that the seed is free within. 
32. Smyrnium Linn. Alexanders. (Tab. III. f. 32.) 
Fruit of 2 nearly globose lobes or carpels, each with 3 dorsal 
prominent sharp ribs, the two lateral ones obsolete ; interstices 
with several vittce. Albumen involute. Pet. lanceolate or 
elliptical, with an inflected point. — Named from opvpva, syn- 
onymous with poppa, myrrh; from the scent of the juice of some 
species. 
1. S. Olusatrum L. ( common A .) ; cauline leaves ternate 
petiolate serrate. E. B. t. 230. 
Waste ground and among ruins, especially near the sea ; not un- 
frequent. S ■ 4 — 6. — Stem 3 — 4 feet high, very stout, furrowed. 
Leaves bright yellow-green, twice (or the lower ones thrice) ternate, 
with a very broad membranous base ; leaflets very large, broadly 
ovate, lobed, and serrate. Flowers yellow-green, in very dense, 
numerous, rounded umbels. Involucres none. Fruit almost black 
when ripe. 
F. Fruit oblong, not prickly , furrowed or involute at the suture, 
usually more or less beaked. (Gen. 33 — 36.) 
33. Scandix Linn. Shepherd’s Needle. (Tab. III. f. 33.) 
Fruit laterally compressed, with a long beak. Carpels with 
5 obtuse ribs and no vittce. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet. obovate, 
with an inflected point. (Universal involucre wanting , or of 
one leaf ; partial one of 5 — 7 leaves .) — Name : onavcA, the 
Greek appellation for some kind of chervil. 
1. S. Pecten L. ( common S., or Venus' Comb); beak 3 — 4 
times longer than the roughish fruit dorsally compressed ciliated 
with bristles, leaflets cut into many linear or lanceolate short 
segments. E. B. t. 1397. 
Corn-fields, abundant. ©. 6—9. — Stem 4 — 12 inches high, 
roughish. Leaves triply pinnate. Umbels of very few rays, 2 — 3: 
universal ones often sessile in the axil of the sheath of the upper 
leaves. Partial invol. entire or cut, rarely pinnatifid or bipinnatifid 
and resembling the segments of the leaves. 
34. Anthriscus Hoffm. Beaked-Parsley. (Tab. III. f. 34.) 
Fruit constricted at the suture, with a short beak. Carpels 
without ribs or vittce. Cal.-teeth obsolete. Pet. obcordate. 
(Partial involucre of many leaves.)— Name : given by Pliny to 
a plant, allied probably to this genus, but we are ignorant of its 
derivation. 
