276 Umbellaceae 
ANTHRISCUS BEAKED PARSLEY 
Annual (ours) or biennial. Leaves ternately or pinnately decompound. Flowers 
white; involucre usually none; umbels compound; involucel bracts numerous. Calyx- 
lobes none or minute. Fruit linear (ours), beaked, laterally flattened, smooth (ours) ; 
carpels nearly terete; ribs none except at the beak; stylopodium conic or depressd; oil- 
tubs none. E. (Latin name.) A. cerefolium Heffm. 
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qf WASHINGTONIA (Osmorhiza) |. SWEET CICELY 
Perennial, glabrous to hirsute; roots thick, aromatic; stems 3—9 dm. high. 
Leaves ternately decompound; leaflets wide-ovate to lanceolate, narrowly toothed. Flow- 
ers white or purple; involucre and involucels few-leaved or none; umbels few-rayed, few- 
fruited. Calyx-teeth none. Fruit linear to linear-oblong, glabrous or bristly on the ribs, 
club-shaped; carpels slightly flattened dorsally or not at all, often long-tailed at base, 
ribs equal; oil-tubes often many in young fruit but disappearing in age. (Honor of G. 
Washington, the first President.) 
A. Fruit with bristly ribs; carpels with long caudate attenuation. 
B. Flowers white. 
C. Fruit obtuse at apex; foliage almost glabrous. E. (O. nuda for our region. ) 
W. obtusa ©. & R. 
CC. Fruit beaked or constricted at apex. 
D. Foliage almost glabrous. 
F.. Fruit with a conspicuous sharp beak. W. C. E. 
W. divaricata Brit. 
FE. Fruit constricted below the apex and with a truncate beak. W.C. E. 
W. leibergi C. & R. 
DD. Foliage strigose-pubescent. W. C. E. 
W. brevipes C. & R. 
BB. Flowers purple. W.C. W. purpurea ©. & R. 
AA. Fruit glabrous; carpels without caudate attenuation, mostly obtuse at base. 
F. Rays erect in fruit, forming a compact cluster of fruits. FE. (Glycosma occi- 
dentalis. ) W. occidentalis C. & R. 
FF. Rays spreading in fruit, forming a loose umbel. - U. C. E. (Glycosma am- 
biguum.) W. ambigua ©. & R. 
CAUCALIS HEDGE-PARSLBEY 
Annual, mostly hispid but ours nearly glabrous. Leaves pinnately dissected or de- 
compound. Flowers white or reddish: umbels compound, in ours at the ends of the 
stem and branches and very unequally 3—6-rayed; in ours involucre-bracts foliaceous, 
divided; involucel-bracts several or numerous, narrow. Calyx-teeth prominent, acute. 
Petals cuneate or obovate, mostly 2-lobed. Fruit ovoid or oblong, laterally flattened; 
stylopodium thick, conic; primary ribs 5, filiform; secondary ribs 4, winged, each with — 
a row of barbed or hooked (ours) bristles or tubercles; oil-tubes 1 in each interval, 2 
on the commissure side. (The Greek name was kaukalis.) W. E. 
C. microcarpa H. & A. 
CORIANDRUM CORIANDER 
Annual, glabrous, slender, branching. Leaves pinnately compound; in ours the 
leaflets flabelliform, many-cleft, cuneate at base. Flowers white or rose-colored; inyol- 

