. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. rnately pinnatisect, with ovate, sub-cordate, obtusely-dentate leaflets; lower stem-leaves sessile, auricled, 136 OIBELLIFERJS. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) Fig. 166. pinnatisect into 3-5, ovate segments, or undivided; the upper opposite,united at hase, ovate, more or less lobed or dentate. Umbels 12-20-ray-ed. Involucre and involucel 0. Fruit .006 broad, mericar2JS ;styles lono-erthan stylopodia—Sj^ring —Fields and rocky places ; MerjAyun to Hauran, Lebanon, Amanus, and


. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. rnately pinnatisect, with ovate, sub-cordate, obtusely-dentate leaflets; lower stem-leaves sessile, auricled, 136 OIBELLIFERJS. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) Fig. 166. pinnatisect into 3-5, ovate segments, or undivided; the upper opposite,united at hase, ovate, more or less lobed or dentate. Umbels 12-20-ray-ed. Involucre and involucel 0. Fruit .006 broad, mericar2JS ;styles lono-erthan stylopodia—Sj^ring —Fields and rocky places ; MerjAyun to Hauran, Lebanon, Amanus, and northward. Var. alteriium, Post. Upperbranches alternate. Damascus plain. 3. S. 01u.«atruiii, L. (D 1 to 2,glabrous. Lower leaves 2-3-ternatisectinto ovate, crenate, often 3-lobed leaflets;upper with a short, ovate, sheathing,membranous petiole, 3-sect vuloodate^ cre-nate leajiets. Umbel 5-lo-rayed ; involu-cre 0; involucel minute ; fruit .008 longand broad, icitli 2:>romijient, acute, dorsalribs, and style as long as stylopodium —April and May — Waste places and road-sides; common. Umbellet of S. 14. SMYRNiOPSIS, Boiss. Smyrniopsis. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Fruit flattened laterally, stylopodia broad,flattened. MericarjDS nearly straight, acutely pentagonal, with 5, pro-minent, acute ribs, the lateral at the margins. Intervals with 1-2- oovitfcae. Albumen involute — Biennial or perennial herbs, with the as-pect of Colladonia; flowers yellow. S. cachroides, Boiss. 2f .5 to .8 ; stem thick, verticillate-corymbose, the plant having a hemispherical aspect, Lowest leavesoblong, entire, the others pinnatisect, with flattened petiole, and 2-3pairs of oblong, decurrent, crenate leaflets, undivided or 2-parted;upper leaves reduced to broad, oblong petioles, bearing 3, small, ovateor oblong leaflets or 0. Rays of umbel oo, becoming .2 to .3 long, pedi-cels 4-5 times as long as fruit; style scarcely longer than stylopodium— Spring — Hauran to Edlip, Aleppo, and


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