308 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. cicuta, 



1. C. maculata L. : stem spotted ; leaves triternale; leaf- 

 lets subternate, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronately-serrate ; 

 umbels axillary and terminal; partial involucra setaceous, 

 Willd, Spec. I, p.lUQ. F u r s h FL \. p, \95. Big. 

 Bost. p. 70. Ejusd. Med, Bot. 1. p. i25. t. 12. Elliott 

 Sk. I. p, 357, J^utt. Gen. I. p. IdU W al t. Car. 115, 

 Roem.irSchulL VI. p. 453. 



Root perennial, large. Stetn 3 — 6 feet high, very smooth, glau- 

 cous, terete, green streaked with purple. Lower leaves tri- 

 ternate and quinate ; upper leaves biternate ; leaflets with very 

 acute serratures. Umbels large, spreading ; rays almost fili- 

 form. Universal involucrum wanting, or rarely of 1 — 2 mi- 

 nute leaves; partial involucra 5 — 6-leaved. Calyx with 5 

 acme conspicuous teeth. Petals white, obcordate. Stylet 

 long, spreading ; atigmas simple. Fruit flat, subelliptical ; 

 commissure oblong, flat. 



Hab. In swamps and wet meadows ; common. July — Augusts 



2. C. hnlbifera L.: leaves various, ternate and biternate^ 

 bulbiferou? ; leaflets linear and linear-lanceolate, remotely 

 toothed; umbels terminal, solitary. fVilld. Spec, IM5. 

 excl. syn. C r on. Mich. FL 1. p. 1 65. P ur s k Fl. L 

 p. 195. A" «U. Gen. I. p. 192. R otm. ^ S chult. Nh 

 J). 433. 



Boot perennial. Stem 2 — 3 feet high, erect, branched, smooth. 

 Leaves in the infertile bulbiferous stems more compound, with 

 narrower divisions, lacerately toothed ; in the feriile and bulbife- 

 rous stems simply ternate ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, remotely 

 toothed ; bulbs axillary, aggregate. Umbels small, few-flower- 

 ed. Universal involucrum wanting ; partial involucra 3 — 5- 

 leaved, subulate, acuminate. Fruit as in the preceding spe- 

 cies. 



Hab. In swamps ; rare. Borders of the salt marshes near Ho 

 boken, £cc. Nev/-Jersey- August. 



206. DAUCUS. L. 



Involucrum pinnatifid. Flowers somewhat radiant ; 

 those of the disk abortive. Fruit oblong, with 5 acu- 

 leate ribs; intervals angular, hispid. Roem. £s 

 Schult. Gen. 1196. 



D. Carota L.: stem hispid; leaves tripinnate ; leaflets 

 incised, linear-lanceolate, acute ; umbel at length concave ; 

 fruit bristly. W 1 1 1 d. Spec. I. p. 1389. Smith Fl Brit. 

 I. p. 300. Ens. Bot, t. 1174. P ur s h Fl.l. p. ]9]. El- 

 liott Sk. I. p. 348. Walt. Car. p. 113. Roem. 4^ 

 Schult, Vi. p. 473. 



