PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Daucus. 39 



confluent, taper-pointed, straight or hooked, prickles; 

 the intermediate ribs slightly prominent, roiighish ; the 

 inner surfaces flat and even, closely applied to each other. 

 Root tapering, annual or biennial. Stem round, furrowed, 

 branched, leafy. . Leaflets repeatedly, and for the most 

 part finely, divided, not spinous, flat, often hairy. Umbels 

 compound, large, flat or convex while in flower, after- 

 wartls either concave or convex. General, and some- 

 times jiartial, bracteas pinnatifid, or three-cleft, narrow, 

 permanent. Fl, white, or reddish, sometimes dotted, 

 various in their respective degrees of perfection. Fruit 

 adhesive, like burs. 



1. D. Carota. Wild Carrot. 



Bristles of the seeds slender. Leaflets pinnatifid, with linear- 

 lanceolate acute segments. Umbels with a solitary, co- 

 loured, abortive flower; when in seed concave. 



D. Carota. Lwvz. Sp. PZ. 348. fF?7W. i;. J. 1389. H. Br. 300. 

 Engl. Bot. v.\7. t. U74. Woodv. Med. Dot. i. 1 6 1 . Mart. Rust. 

 t.32. Hook. Scot. 88. Fl. Dan. t.723. 



D. polvgamus. Gouan. Obs. 9. Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 3. 43. I. 78. 



D. n. 746. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 326. 



D. vulgaris. Raii Sijn. 2 1 8. Clus. Hist. v. 2. ] 98, 



Caucalis Carota. Huds.l\4. 



Staphylinus. Riv. Pentap. Irr. t. 28. 



Pastinaca svlvestiis. Matth. Falgr.v.2. 107./. bad. Camer. Epit. 

 508./. / 



P. sylvestris tenuifolia. Ger. Em. 1028./. bad. 



P. erratica. Fuchs. Hist. 684./. 



In pastures, and the borders of fieldsj in a gravelly soil, common. 



Biennial. June, July. 



Root slender, yellowish, aromatic and sweetish, resembling the 

 Garden Carrot, which is only a cultivated variety. Stem 2 or 3 

 feet high, branched, erect, leafy, hairy or bristly. Leaves alter- 

 nate, on broad, concave, ribbed footstalks, bipinnate, cut, nar- 

 row, acute, distantly hairy. Umbels terminating the long leaf- 

 less branches, solitary, large, white, except the one central 

 neutral ^ower, which is blood-red. General bracteas pinnatifid, 

 slender, large, but not so long as the umbel ; partial undivided, 

 or partly 3 -cleft, membranous at the edges. Seeds small, pro- 

 tected by the incurvation of all the flower-stalks, by which the 

 umbels are rendered hollow, like a bird's nest. 



The herb and seeds arc diuretic, and esteemed useful in gravelly 

 or calculous complaints. 



