. 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. 28. MUSINEON Raf. Journ. Phys. 91: 71. 1820. [Adorium Raf. Neog. 3. 1825.] [MusENiuM Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 642. 1840.] Low perennial resiniferous herbs, branching or acaulescent, with pinnately decompound leaves, and compound umbels of yellow or white flowersi Involucre none. Bracts of the involucels few, narrow. Calyx-teeth ovate. Petals clawed, the
. 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. 28. MUSINEON Raf. Journ. Phys. 91: 71. 1820. [Adorium Raf. Neog. 3. 1825.] [MusENiuM Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 642. 1840.] Low perennial resiniferous herbs, branching or acaulescent, with pinnately decompound leaves, and compound umbels of yellow or white flowersi Involucre none. Bracts of the involucels few, narrow. Calyx-teeth ovate. Petals clawed, the apex long and infolded. Stylopodium small, depressed. Fruit ovate or ovate-oblong, slightly compressed laterally, smooth or nearly so in our species (roughened in M. Hookeri). Carpels somewhat S-angled, the ribs filiform, equal; oil-tubes usually 3 in the intervals, the middle one usually largest. Seed-face cancave. [A name of fennel.] Four known species, natives of northwestern and central North America. Type species : Seseh divaricatum Pursh. Stem leafy, branching ; fruit about 2" long. Plant acaulescent, tufted ; fruit about i" long. M. divaricatum, M. I. Musineon divaricatum (Pursh) Nutt. Leafy Musineon. Fig. 3143. Seseli divaricatum Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 732. 1814. Musenitim divaricatum Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 642. 1840. Adorium divaricatum Rydberg, Bot. Surv. Neb. 3: 37. 1894. Decumbent or ascending, branched, glabrous, 6'- 12' high. Leaves bipinnatifid, petioled, 2'-6' long, the rachis narrowly winged, the segments oblong or ovate, acutish, 3-S-dentate; umbels mostly long- peduncled, l'-2i' broad^ S-2S-rayed; rays rather stout, 3"-i2" long; pedicels about li" long in fruit; flow- ers yellow; fruit smooth, or very nearly so, about 2" long. Prairies, South Dakota to Manitoba and Oregon. May— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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