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Hermann Wolff. - Umbelliferae-Saniculoideae. 
2 — 3 -i'urcalus, rainis slricUs, k — Sein longis, simplicibus vel semel (bis) dichasialiter ramu- 
losis. Folia in vivo, ut videlur, carnosa, zb palmalo-nervosa, gracililer reticulalo-venosa, 
(inferiora) petiolo quam lamina ca. 2 — 4-plo longiore fulta, basalia late cordata vel rarius 
oblonga, apice obtusissima, indivisa vel juniora bi- vel Iriloba, margine subintegra vel db 
manifeste obtuse crenata, 4 — 1 0 cm longa, 3 — 4 Y 2 cm lata; f.fulcrans petiolo brevi sed 
late vaginante fultum, profunde 3-partila. Prophylla primaria ses.silia, subindivisa vel 3- 
partita, 3 — 4 cm longa, cetera (si adsunt) minora, dentato-serrata. Bracteae involucrales 
subnumerosae, basi breviter connalae, lanceolalae, acutiusculae, Y 2 ••'•rn longae. Umbellae 
rnultiflorae; flores flavidi, numerosi ad 3 mm longc pedicellali; sepala usque ad medium 
vel minus connata, quoad libera lanceolata, obtusiuscula, ca. t mm longa; pelala late 
cordato-obovata, cervice late emarginala, prominenter nervosa, lobulo intlexo triangulari 
quam petalum vix minore, ca. 1 Y 2 ™rn longa; fl. fertiles subsessiles; sepala late ovata, 
subobtusa, breviter mucromilata; petala (et filamenta) ut in fl. (J'; styli longi, demum 
reflexi. Fructus junior subturbinatus, ad commissuram constriefus, inferne obsolete tuber- 
culatus, superne aculeolis uncinatis subadpressis, summis sepala vix superantibus obsitus, ad 
4 mm longus; mericarpia a latere valde compressa, ad commissuram angustissima; vittae 
subnumerosae, medioerds; endospermium subteres, facie media prominenter cariiiatum. 
Pazifisches Nordamerika; Californiem: Um die Bai von S. bbancisco, auf 
nassen, an die Salzwiesen angrenzenden Niederungen; blüht im April und Mai. 
Species excludendae. 
» 8 . hrasiliensis D. Dietr. Synops. pl. 11. (1 840) 935 = Klotxschia brasi- 
liensis Cham. 
S. critlimifolia Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Neue Schrift. III. (I 8 OI) 419 = 
Trinia crithmifolia (Willd.) Wolff. 
3. Astrantia l. 
Astrantia*) [Tourn. Inst. ed. f. I. (1700) 31 4, II. t. 166; L. Sjst. pl. ed. 1 . 
(1735); Gen. pl. ed. 1 . (1737) 70, n. 202]; L. Spec. pl. ed. 1 . (1 753) 235; Koch, 
Pl. Umb. disp. (1 824) 1 38; DC. Prodr. IV. (l 830) 86 ; Endl. Gen. pl. X.? (1 839) 
7 67, n. 4383; Stur in Sitzungsb. math.-naturw. CI. Acad. Wien. XL. (I 86 O) 481; 
Benth. in Benth. ef Hook. f. Gen. pl. I. 2. (1 867) 879; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 11. (187 2) 
830; Baill. Hist. pl. VH. (I 88 O) 241 [Euastrantia) \ Drude in Engl, et Prantl, Pflzfam. 
Ilf. 8 . (1 898) 138; Galest. in Webbia I. (1905) 127; Grintz. in Ann. Cons. et Jard. 
bot. Geneve ann. Xlll. et XIV. (1910) 12 8 , Sep. pg. 6 3. 
Flores polygami, numerosi vel numerosissimi, longe pedicellati cum ^ (vel Y() 
brevius pedicellatis in eandem urabellam sine ordine disposili vel i’arius dz mani- 
feste peripherici. Calycis dentes majusculi, rigiduli, ± lanceolati, obtusiusculi vel acu- 
minati, nmeronati aut acutissimo-subulati, petalis saepius longiores. Petala in aestivatione 
leviter imbricata, ob costam superne impressam cervice emarginata, lobulo inllexo longo, 
acuminato instructa. Filamenta longe exserta. Stylopodium in fl. obsoletum, styli 
subnulli; in fl. fertilibus parvum, applanatum, centro infundibuliforme; styli temies, 
longi, stigmatibus capitatis. Fruclus oblongo-cylindricus vel ovoideo-oblongus, a dorso 
leviter compressus; carpophorum nullum; mericarpia semiteretia, ad commissuram plana; 
juga (primaria) 5 aequalia vel lateralia minora, utriculoso-inllata, squamis vesiculifor- 
mibus transversini uni- vel biseriatis, acuininatis, sursnm spectantibiis instructa; secun- 
daria nulla; vittae intrajugales singulae, magnae; endospermium ad facietn planum, 
dorso convexum; crystalli sec. cl. Drude numerosi in pericar[)io obvii. - — Herbae 
perennes, erectae, foliis trisectis vel pgilmato-partitis vel lobatis, margine setoso-serratis, 
nmbellis simplicibus in cymam depauperatam dispositis, bracteis involucralibus conspieuis, 
saepius coloratis, cximic vel obsolete rcticulato-venosis, floralibiis nidlis. 
S[iecies 9 Europac mediae et Asiae maxime occidentalis cives. 
*) Nomine Asiranlia scc. cl. Asclierson et (iraebnor primo a beato Clusio genus 
Imperatoria designatum est. Derivatum cst n Mayistraniia nomine illiiis gencris antiquo. 
