PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Caucalis. 41 



1 . C. daucoides. Small Bur-parsley. 



Umbels three-cleft, without general bracteas ; partial ones 

 with three bracteas, and ripening about three fruits. 

 jLeaves repeatedly subdivided. 



C. daucoides. Linn. Syst. Nat. eel. 12. v. 2. 205. ed. 14. 276. 

 Mant.2,b\. ^^J/W. u. 1. 1384. F/.i?r.296. Erigl.Bot. v.3. t.\97. 

 Jacq. Austr. f. 157. 



C. Icptophylla. Hiids. ed. 1. 99 ; not of Linn. 



C. n. 739. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 324. 



C. tenuifolia, flosculis subriibentibus. Raii Syn. 219. 



Conium Royeni. Linn. Sp. PL 350. 



Echinophora. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 24. 



E. tertia leptophyllon purpurea. Column. Ecphr. 96. t. 97. f. 2. 



In cornfields, on a chalky soil. 



At Marham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Carlby, between Stamford and 

 Bourn, Lincolnshire. Mr. Woodward. Thorp Arch, Yorkshire. 

 J. Aikin, M.D. Frequent in the counties of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge. 



Annual. June. 



Root small, tapering. Herh nearly smooth, bushy. Stem deeply 

 furrowed, hairy at the joints. Leaven on short membranous- 

 edged footstalks ; three-cleft at the base, then thrice com- 

 pounded, with very narrow, deep-green segments. Umbels of 

 3 or 4 stout, spreading, principal rays, with rarely a small so- 

 litary trac/ea; the partial ones of 2 or 3 fertWe /lowers, with 

 several barren, and some that are abortive. Cal. very obvious. 

 Pet. generally reddish, but slightly radiant. Partial bracteas 

 from 3 to 5, lanceolate, not membranous. Fruit large, oblong, 

 very prickly, as well as somewhat hairy. 



The synonym of Gerarde Em. 1021, quoted in Fl. Br., certainly 

 belongs to C. grandiftora. 



2. C. latifolia. Great Bur parsley. 



Umbels three-cleft, with membranous bracteas; partial 

 ones ripening about five fruits. Leaves pinnate, serrated. 



C. latifolia. Linn. .Syst. Nat. ed. 12. v. 2. 205. ed. 14. 276. Willd. 



V. 1. 1384. Fl.Br.297. Engl. Bot. v.3. t.\98. Jacq.Hort. Find. 



v. 2. 59. t. 128. 

 C. n. 738. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 324. 

 C arvensis echinata latifolia. Bunh. Pin. 152, Raii Syn. 219. 



Mill. Ic. t. 85. Garid. Prov. 90. ^ 22. 

 Tordylium latifolium. Liirn. Sp. PL 345. Huds. ed. 1. 98 

 Echinophora quarta major platyphyllon purpurea. Column. Ecphr. 



98. t.97.f. 1. 

 Broad Bur-parsley. Pet. H. Brit. t.27.f. 6. 

 jS. Echinophora laciniata. Dill, in Raii Syn. 219. 



