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Annual or biennial herbs, usually hispid. Leaves decompound, ultimate segments narrow. Umbels compound; rays numerous; bracts of the general involucre usually pinnatisect. Flowers white. Calyx-teeth small or obsolete. Petals often unequal, inflexed at the tips. Fruit ovoid or oblong, terete or slightly dorsally compressed; carpels convex, with 5 slender bristly primary ribs, and 4 winged secondary ones bearing rows of hooked bristles. Vittæ 1 under each secondary rib and 2 on the commissural face. Seed flattened dorsally.

1. D. brachiatus, Sieb. in D.C. Prodr. iv. 214.—An erect annual or biennial branching herb, very variable in size, 6–18 in. high, more or less bristly with short stiff hairs, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves flaccid, on long slender petioles, 2–3-pinnate; primary leaflets 4–6 pairs; secondary deeply incised or pinnatifid; segments small, linear-oblong, minutely mucronulate. Umbels axillary or terminal, compound; primary rays 4–10, very unequal in size; involucral bracts entire or pinnately divided. Flowers small. Fruit ovoid, about $1⁄8$ in. long; carpels with the secondary ridges much the largest, and bearing a single row of purplish hooked bristles; primary with a double row of finer bristles pointing right and left.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 91; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 99; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 376; Kirk, Students' Fl. 214. Scandix glochidiata, ''Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl.'' i. 75, t. 102.





Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, simple or digitately or pinnately divided, often large; stipules adnate to the base of the petiole or wanting. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous or diœcious, usually arranged 