UMBELLIFEROUS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Umbelliferous

... Agrimony, or St. John's Herb, belongs to the Composite order of plants, and grows on the margins of brooks, having hemp-like leaves, which are bitter of taste and pungent of smell, as if it were an umbelliferous herb. Because of these hempen leaves it was formerly called "Holy Rope," being thus named after the rope with which Jesus was bound. They contain a volatile [20] oil, which acts on the kidneys; likewise some tannin, and a bitter chemical principle, which will cut short the chill of intermittent ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... against each other and against the stem. Some botanists believe that the singular difference in the shape both of the seed and corolla, in the interior and exterior florets in certain compositous and umbelliferous plants, is due to the pressure to which the inner florets are subjected; but this ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin