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the middle of the face, but not deeply suleate——Annual or biennial 
herbs with pinnately decompouad leaves. Umbels regularly compound ; 
involucre and involucels of several dissected or linear leaves. 
A large genus, chiefly Mediterranean, and extending to temperate Asia and North 
Africa, America, and Australia. 
Umbels stalked. 2 2 2. we. eee ee ee ee ee A DL Carota. 
Umbels sessile . 2 2. 2 1 we ee ee ee ew es 2. D. abyssinica. 
1. D. Carota, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 211. Erect, hispid, biennial, 
Leaves 2 or 3 times pinnate, with small or linear acute segments. 
Umbels terminal on long peduncles of many crowded primary and se- 
condary rays; involucre of many crowded leaflike bracts, and involucels 
of many linear or trifid acute bracteoles. Fruit } in. long; spines of 
the fruit shorter than its thickness.—Daucus abyssinicus, C. A. Mey. in 
Index Hort. Petrop. ix. 68. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper / fl. and fr. December. 
Occurs also widely distributed in Europe, temperate Asia and India, N. Africa, and 
introduced in N. America and Australia. 
Abyssinian name, Kuerta adagi. 
2. D. abyssinicus, Hochst. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i, 331, non 
C. A. Mey. Annual, 3-1 ft. high, erect, with scattered setose hairs, 
but shining. Stem terete, striate. Leaves oblong or ovate, the lower 
ones on long petioles terete except at the clasping base; segments 
linear-acute. Umbels sessile, opposite the leaves, of few- often 1-flowered 
rays. Fruiting rays }—} in. long. Involucre of linear-acute bracts ; 
petals whitish-rose colour. Fruit with minutely glochidiate spines 
on the secondary rays longer than the thickness of the fruit, } in. long 
by }y in. thick; spines y'5 in. long.—Cuaucalis abyssinica, Hochst. in 
Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sec. i. 838. Durieua abyssinica, Boiss. in Ann. Se. 
Nat. sér, 3, ii. 51. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Fr. October. 
21. CAUCALIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 928. 
Calyx-teeth rather prominent, lanceolate-acute or obsolete. Petals 
usually unequal, oval, with inflected acumen; stylopods thick. Fruit 
ovoid, somewhat compressed laterally and narrowed at the commissure ; 
4) primary ridges not prominent, filiform or wider, covered with short 
appressed bristles; 4 secondary ridges predominating, armed with 
longer patent bristles, glochidiate or forked at the end. Vitte solitary 
under secondary ridges. Carpophore undivided or 0. Seed subterete, 
deeply sulcate on the face-—Annual or biennial herbs. Leaves pin- 
nately decompound. Umbels of few rays or subcapitate small, terminal 
or opposite the leaves. Involucre of 0, 1, or several bracts; involucels 
of many bracteoles. Flowers white or dark purple. 
A moderate sized genus, chiefly found in the Mediterranean region, but some species 
are widely scattered over the world. 
