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12. LIGuSTIc.u.m, L. LOVAGE.

Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong or ovate, flattened laterally if at all, glabrous; carpels with prominent equal acute ribs and broad intervals; oil-tubes 2--6 in the intervals, 6--10 on the commissure.

Stylopodium conical.--Smooth perennials, from large aromatic roots, with large ternately compound leaves, mostly no involucre, involucels of narrow bractlets, and white flowers in large many-rayed umbels. (Named from the country _Liguria_, where the officinal _Lovage_ of the gardens abounds.)

1. L. actaeiflium, Michx. (NONDO. ANGELICO.) Stem stout, branched above (2--6 high); _leaves very large, 3--4-ternate; leaflets broadly oblong (2--5' long), coa.r.s.ely serrate; fruit ovate (2--3” long)_; seed with angled back.--Rich ground, S. Penn. to Ky., southward to the Gulf.

2. L. Scotic.u.m, L. (SCOTCH LOVAGE.) Stem simple (1--2 high); _leaves biternate; leaflets ovate (1--2' long), coa.r.s.ely toothed; fruit narrowly oblong (4--5” long)_; seed with round back.--Salt marshes, along the coast from Nantucket northward. Aug. (Eu.)

13. aeTHuSA, L. FOOL'S PARSLEY.

Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit ovate-globose, slightly flattened dorsally; carpel with 5 thick sharp ribs; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure.--Poisonous annuals, with 2--3-ternately compound leaves, divisions pinnate, ultimate segments small and many cleft, no involucre, long narrow involucels, and white flowers. (Name from a???, _to burn_, from the acrid taste.)

ae. CYNaPIUM, L. A fetid, poisonous European herb, in cultivated grounds, from N. Eng. and Penn. to Minn. June--Aug.

14. CLOPLEuRUM, Ledeb.

Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit globose to oblong, with very prominent nearly equal thick corky ribs (none of them winged); oil-tubes solitary in the intervals and under the ribs, 2 on the commissure. Seed loose in the pericarp.--Stout glabrous (or inflorescence p.u.b.erulent) sea-coast perennial, with 2--3-ternate leaves on very large inflated petioles, few-leaved deciduous involucre, involucels of numerous small linear-lanceolate bractlets (rarely conspicuous or even leaf-like), and greenish-white flowers in many-rayed umbels. (From ??????, _hollow_, and p?e????, _a rib_.)

1. C. Gmelini, Ledeb. Stem 1--3 high; leaflets ovate, irregularly cut-serrate (2--2' long); fruit 2--3” long. (Archangelica Gmelini, _DC._)--Rocky coasts, Ma.s.s. to Greenland.

15. CRaNTZIA, Nutt.

Calyx-teeth small. Fruit globose or slightly flattened laterally; dorsal ribs filiform, the lateral thick and corky; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure.--Small perennials, creeping and rooting in the mud, with hollow cylindrical or awl-shaped nodose petioles in place of leaves, simple few-flowered umbels, and white flowers. (Named for _Prof. Henry John Crantz_, an Austrian botanist of the 18th century.)

1. C. lineata, Nutt. Leaves very obtuse, 1--3' long, 1--2” broad; fruit 1” long, the thick lateral wings forming a corky margin.--In brackish marshes along the coast, from Ma.s.s. to Miss. July. Very widely distributed.

16. FNiCULUM, Adans. FENNEL.

Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong, glabrous, with prominent ribs and solitary oil-tubes.--Stout glabrous aromatic herb, with leaves dissected into numerous filiform segments, no involucre nor involucels, and large umbels of yellow flowers. (The Latin name, from _fnum_, hay.)

F. OFFICINaLE, All., the cultivated fennel from Europe, has become naturalized along the sh.o.r.es of Md. and Va., and is a common escape.

17. PIMPINeLLA, L.

Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit oblong to ovate, glabrous, with slender equal ribs, numerous oil-tubes, and depressed or cus.h.i.+on-like stylopodium.--Glabrous perennials, with ternately or pinnately compound leaves, involucre and involucels scanty or none, and white or yellow flowers. (Name said to be formed from _bipinnula_, referring to the bipinnate leaves.)

1. P. integerrima, Benth. & Hook. Glaucous, 1--3 high, slender, branching; leaves 2--3-ternate, with lanceolate to ovate entire leaflets; flowers yellow; fruit broadly oblong, 2” long; stylopodium small or wanting. (Zizia integerrima, _DC._)--Rocky hillsides, Atlantic States to Minn., E. Kan., and Ark. May.

P. SAXiFRAGA, L., var. MaJOR, Koch. Leaves simply pinnate, with sharply toothed leaflets; flowers white; fruit oblong, 1” long; stylopodium cus.h.i.+on-like.--Rocky sh.o.r.es of Delaware River; Sycamore, Ohio. (Nat.

from Eu.)

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