T'EN’f'ANiJKiAi 
■ No of 
Species tti 
N® Genera. 
Growth, species. Native of 
Britain'. 
236 Crithmum* 
h 
3 Pyrenean 
Brit. 1 
237 Cmninum 
h 
1 Egypt ' 
238 Ferulaf 
h 
9 Europe, Canada 
239 Haselquistia 
h 
2 Egypt 
240 Ligusticum 
h 
7 Austria 
Brit. £ 
241 Selinum 
h 
7 Germany, Austria 
Brit. 1 
242 Sison 
li 
7 Canada 
Brit. 4 
243 Sium$ 
h 
12 Sicily, Japan 
Brit. 5 
b. With only partiizl involucres ; no universal. 
Flowers subradiate r ; all fertile. 
244 iEthusa 
h 
3 Europe 
Brit. 2 
Flowers radiate; 
florets of the disc' abortive . 
245 Conundrum 
■h 
2 Italy 
Brit. 1 
246 Seandix 
h 
16 Europe’ 
, Brit. 4 
Flowers flosculous, all fertile* 
247 Cicuta 
h 
3 Canada 
Erit. 1 
248 Imperatoria 
h 
1 Alp? 
Brit. I 
249 Pheilandrium 
h 
2 Europe' 
Brit.' 1 
250 Seseli 
li 
11 Eurdpe 
Flowers floscutous ; florets of the disc abortive. 
251 Chserophyllum s Sc h 10 Europe Brit.. sf 
c. With no involucre; neither universal nor partial. 
Flowers flosculoiis; florets of the disc abortive j 
252 Carum h 1 Europe Brit. 1 
253 Smyrnium h 5 Egypt Brit. I 
* The samphire used as a pickle is the British species (crithmum maxiiimuni) 
and grows in the crevices of rocks by the sea-side; which is said to be a very 
wholesome and agreeable pickle ; but the markets are too often supplied With a 
spurious sort, called golden samphire , (inula crithmi-folia). 
f The drug of asafeetida is a gum resin of ferula asafalidct. Ferula communis 
(giant fennel) grows plentifully in the kingdom of Naples, and is said to rise to the 
hight of twelve feet. ' 
X Sium nodiflorum (creeping water parsnep).—See note to sisymbrium. 
