Fls perfect; sep and pet each 4 or 5; stamens 8 or 10; ovary 4- or 5- locular and -lobed, with several axile ovules in each locule; style 1; fr a lobate loculicidal capsule; perennial herbs or half-shrubs, strongly glandular-punctate and heavily scented, with alternate, simple to bipinnatifid lvs and small fls in ample paniculiform cymes, terminal and from the upper axils. 60, Eurasia and N. Afr.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
