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CARUM CARUL 
COMMON CARAWAY 
Pharm. Lond, y Edinh. Carum feu 
S TNONTMJ. Camon, 
Careum. Gerard Emacp, 1034. Caros. J.Bauh. iii./. 69. 
Cuminum pratenfe, Carui officinamm. Bauh.Pin.p, 158. Carum 
g 
j^. 446 
Park, 
Synop, p 
p. 9 
Gamer, Ep 
S16 
Rail Hift, 
3 
Mori/on UmbeW/er. /, 24. ■ J^^r^. F/or, 
^nft' 393* ' -^^^//^^ *S'//V/. Helv. N. 789. Withering, Bot, Jrrang. 
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Diofcorid, Careum. P///?// 
Clafs Pentandr 
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Ord, Digynia 
Lin. Gen. Plant. %^^ 
W- 
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EJf. Gen. Ch, EriiBus ovato-oblongus, flriatus. Involucre l-phyllum 
Pet a! a 
/ 
inflexo-emarg 
q 
THE root is biennial, long, tliick, wHite, and has a fharp fweetifh 
fte:* the ftalk is round, flrong,- channelled, branched, and rifes to 
height of two 
three feet 
g 
d fubdivide 
pinnulse or fegments, which are narrow, pointed, of 
colour, and have a fweet tafte:f the flowers grow in 
terminal umbels, generally confifting of ten radii, and furnilhed with 
deep g 
both a general and a partial involucrum, each of which, in the fp 
cimen we have figured, confifted of four or five 
ow it^ 
the corolla is compofed of five roundilh blunt petals, which are white, 
and curled inwards at the extremities : the five filaments are flender, 
about the length of the petals, and crowned with fmall round 
antherae : the two ftyles are fhort, capillary, and furnifhed with fimple 
nata : the feeds are two, naked, brown, bent, firiated, and of an 
fli 
g 
oblong fhap 
Parklnfon fays that thefe roots are better eating than parfi 
4 . . ' 
t The leaves are faid to afford an oil fimilar to that of the feeds,-— Vide Lewis and 
Thii 
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