. The natural history of plants. Botany. 132 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. only as sections: Anosmia, from Crete, hating a small fruit, with a variable number of vittse sometimes a single one in each furrow; Smyrniopsis, from the Levant, whose fruit has mericarps much less incurved from base to summit, marginal ridges more developed and â nium Fig. 142. Fruit (|). Fig. 143. Trans. Beet, of meriearp. Fig. 144. Long. sect, of meriearp. one or two vittse in each furrow; Eleutherospermum, from the same country, whose fruit is more elongate, with five prominent and sharper ridges to each me
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 132 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. only as sections: Anosmia, from Crete, hating a small fruit, with a variable number of vittse sometimes a single one in each furrow; Smyrniopsis, from the Levant, whose fruit has mericarps much less incurved from base to summit, marginal ridges more developed and â nium Fig. 142. Fruit (|). Fig. 143. Trans. Beet, of meriearp. Fig. 144. Long. sect, of meriearp. one or two vittse in each furrow; Eleutherospermum, from the same country, whose fruit is more elongate, with five prominent and sharper ridges to each meriearp, and generally three relatively, more superficial vittse in each furrow ; Eulophus, American, having a more elongate fruit with a variable number of (but not solitary) vittse in each furrow, and a more involute seed than the true Smyrnium. Conium (fig. 145-148) consists of glabrous dicarpous herbs, having compound umbels, with involucres and involucels formed of a variable number of bracts, petals more or less unequal, and stylopods in form of very depressed cones. The fruit is short ovoid, somewhat com- pressed perpendicular to the partition and there hollow. The five primary ridges of each meriearp are nearly equal and tolerably pro- minent, with a transverse section in form of an isosceles triangle, and smooth or more generally crenelately undulate. The vittse are nil or rudimentary, and the very fine and irregular coloured lines borne by the fruit are of quite a different nature. The carpophore, described as undivided, sometimes separates into two. Of the two species of Conium known, one is very common throughout the northern hemi- sphere of our world; the other belongs to the east and south of Africa. With this we can connect as a section only, Vicatia, a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origina
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