44 PENTANDRIA—DIGYNIA. Anthriscus. 



In fields and by way sides, common. 



Annual. July. 



Smaller than the last, and more spreading, from 6 to 18 inches 

 high. Leaves pinnate, deeply cut and sometimes almost bipin- 

 nate, harsh to the touch ; the terminal leaflet elongated. C/ra- 

 bels of from 3 to 5 rather close rays, for the most part destitute 

 of general bracteas, though now and then furnished with a soli- 

 tary one, which, like the numerous partial bracteas, is lanceolate 

 and acute. Fl. cream-coloured, or pure white ; rarely flesh-co- 

 loured. Anlh. yellowish or purple. Fr. larger than that of 



• T. Anthriscus, green or reddish, crowned with the white or hoary 

 cahjx, and red styles, but not tipped with purple. A very di- 

 stinct species, well marked by the deficiency of general bracteas, 

 and by the spreading branches. 



3. T. nodosa. Knotted Hedge-parsley. 



Umbels lateral, simple, nearly sessile. Stem prostrate. 

 Fruit partly granulated. 



T. nodosa. Gcertn. v. 1. 82, 



Caucalis nodosa. Huds. 1 14. mild. Sp. PL v. 1. 1388. Fl.Br.209. 

 Engl. not. V. 3. t. 1 99. Hook. Scot. 88. 



C. nodosa, echinato semine. Baiih. P'm. 153. Prodr. 80. Rail 

 Syn. 220. Ger. Em. 1022./. 



C. ad alas florens. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t.36. 



Tordylium nodosum. Linn. Sp. PI. 346. Jacq. Austr. opp. t. 24. 



On banks, and about the borders of fields ; most plentiful in a 

 gravelly or chalky soil. 



Annual. May, June. 



Root slender. Steyns prostrate, branched, leafy, round, a foot long, 

 rough with reflexed bristles. Leaves of a deep glaucous green, 

 hairy, doubly pinnate and sharply cut, with very narrow, tolera- 

 bly uniform, segments. Umbels opposite to the leaves, solitary, 

 on short stalks, simple, dense, nearly globular, with several linear 

 hairy bracteas. F/. almost sessile. CaL short and unequal. Pet. 

 small, white or reddish, scarcely at all radiating or unequal. 

 Stam. short. Styles globular at the base ; straight and elon- 

 gated after the flowering. Seeds ovate ; the outer one of each 

 external fruit thickly clothed with long, straight, pale, rough 

 bristles, minutely hooked at the tips ; the inner, as well as all 

 the interior fruits, covered with dense, whitish, shining tubercu- 

 lar granulations. 



142. ANTHRISCUS. Beaked-parsley. 



Spreng. Prodr. 27. 



FL all perfect, regular, and generally prolific. Cal. none. 

 Pcf. equal, uniform, inversely heart-shaped, with a small 



