. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. AMMIACEAE. Vol. II. I. Anethum graveolens L. Dill. Fig. 3122. Anethum graveolens L. Sp. PI. 263. 1753. Stem usually branched above, striate, i°-3° high. Leaves very finely dissected into almost filiform segments, similar to those of Foe- niculum, the sheathing petioles strongly nerved and scarious-margined; umbels up to 6' broad, several-many-rayed, the rays 3'
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. AMMIACEAE. Vol. II. I. Anethum graveolens L. Dill. Fig. 3122. Anethum graveolens L. Sp. PI. 263. 1753. Stem usually branched above, striate, i°-3° high. Leaves very finely dissected into almost filiform segments, similar to those of Foe- niculum, the sheathing petioles strongly nerved and scarious-margined; umbels up to 6' broad, several-many-rayed, the rays 3' long or less; fruiting pedicels 5"-8" long; fruit about 3" long, I J" wide. Waste grounds, Connecticut to Virginia, in the West Indies: July-Sept. Also 15. PASTINACA L. Sp. PI. 262. 1753. Tall erect mostly biennial branching herbs, with thick roots, pinnate leaves, and com- pound umbels of yellow flowers. Involucre and involucels commonly none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit oval, glabrous, much flattened dorsally; dorsal and intermediate ribs filiform, the lateral winged, those of the two carpels contiguous and forming a broad margin to the fruit; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals and 2-4 on the commissural side. Seed very flat. [Latin pastus, food.] About 7 species, natives of Europe and Asia, the following typica Madnep. Tank. Fig. 2123. I. Pastinaca sativa L. Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa L. Sp. PI. 262. 1753. Peucedanum sativum S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 128. 1871. Biennial or rarely annual, glabrous, or somewhat downy-pubescent, 2°-$° high, the root long, conic, fleshy, the stem grooved. Lower and basal leaves petioled, pinnate, often lj° long, the segments rather thin, ovate or oval, obtuse, sessile, lobed or incised and sharply dentate, i'-3' long; upper leaves generally much reduced; umbels several or numerous, 2'-6' broad, 7-T5-rayed, the rays slender, ¥-2' long; pedi- cels very slender, 2!'-^" long in fruit; fruit
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