to my friend Dr. Reared, author of 4 Morocco and the Moors,’ 
who procured roots from the interior of that country, which he 
gave to R. S. hTewall, F.R.S., of Ferndene, Gateshead, with 
whom it flowered in a cool green-house in January of the 
present year. It has been cultivated at Kew for many 
years, but is often killed ; and I have never seen it flower in 
this country in the open air, though in L Hortus Kewensis ’ it 
is stated to do so in July. It was originally introduced 
into Mr. Sutherland’s Garden in Edinburgh in 1683. 
Descr. A tall, stout, sparingly-branched umbellifer, wholly 
glabrous, or with scattered spreading setose hairs on the 
petiole rachis and nerves beneath of the leaves. Roots large, 
fusiform. Stem cylindric, striated. Leaves on stout petioles 
with loose oblong sheaths ; blade a foot long or under, 
ovate, twice to thrice-pinnatisect ; segments cut into oblong or 
linear, obtuse or acute, often two to five lobed segments, 
margins usually recurved, quite entire, nerves reticulate. 
Umbels stoutly peduncled, rays six to fifteen, spreading ; 
uinbellule globose, an inch in diameter. Involucre and involu- 
cels obsolete. Flowers yellow, pedicelled, quarter of an inch 
in diameter ; those in the centre of the umbellule male only. 
Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals obovate-lanceolate, tips incurved. 
Stamens with slender filaments. Stylo pods very large and 
broad ; styles diverging. Fruit two-thirds to three-fourths 
of an inch long, broadly oblong, deeply bilobed above and 
below ; disk elliptic-lanceolate, with five ribs ; wings broad, 
scarious, shining, undulate, transversely striate. — /. B. II 
Fig. 1, Male flower ; 2, female do. with petals and stamens removed ; 3, ripe 
fruit ; 4, transverse section of a carpel : all but 3 enlarged. 
