og PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Daucus. 



Eiigl Bot. V. 34. t.2i\3. Fl. Grcvc. v. 3. 58. t. 265. Turr. Far- 

 set.7. Cavan.Ic.v. 2. 24. t. 127. Jacq.Collect.v.2. 155. 



E. maritima spinosa. ' Tourn. Inst. 656. Dill, in Rail Sijn. 220. 



Crithmum spinosum. Dod. Pempt. 7Q5.f. Ger. Em. 533. f. Rail 

 Sijn. ed. 2. 1 14. 



C. secundum. Matth. Valgr. v. \. 445. f. Ed.Baiih.3S].f. Corner. 

 Epit. 273. f. 



Pastinaca marina. Lob. Ic. 710./. Bank. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 196./. 

 Dalech. Hist. 1396./. 



On the sandy sea shore ; not found by any recent botanist. 



Observed by Mr, Lawson at Roosebeck in Low Furness, Lanca- 

 shire. Ray. Between Feversham and Sea Salter. Blackstone. 

 Between Whitstable and the isle of Thanet, by Sandwich, and 

 near West-chester. Gerarde. 



Perennial. July. 



Root spindle-shaped, long and fleshy, reported to be eatable, hav- 

 ing the flavour of Parsnep, with a stimulating and diuretic 

 quality. Herb glaucous, finely downy, copiously branched, and 

 spreading in every direction 2 or 3 feet. Leaves rigid, alternate 

 or opposite, doubly pinnatifid, with narrow, channelled, entire, 

 spinous-pointed segments. Fl. white, or pale flesh-coloured, 

 numerous. General bracteas undivided, numerous, about as 

 long as the stalks of the general iimbel ; partial ones much 

 smaller, finally confluent with the receptacle and with each other. 

 Marginaljlowers radiant and sometimes neuter. Fruit globose, 

 encompassed with the spreading hardened partial bracteas, and 

 crowned with the thickened stalks, and permanent calyx-leaves, 

 of the faded barren flowers. — There are rudiments of 2 seeds, 

 though only one comes to perfection. 



139. DAUCUS. Carrot. 



Linn. Gen. ]3\. Juss. 224. Fl. Br. 300. Tourn. t. 161. Lam. 

 t.]92. Gcertn.t. 20. 



Fl. separated ; the outermost irregular, barren ; inner ones 

 fertile; central mostly neuter, often coloured. Cal. obso- 

 lete. Pel. inversel}' heart-shaped, with an inflexed point, 

 more or less irregular ; the lobes of the 4 lateral ones 

 very unequal, of the odd one equal and largest. Filam. 

 capillary, longer than the corolla, spreading. AntJi. rather 

 oblong. Germ, inferior, ovate, bristly, imperfect in the 

 outermost, as well as in the central flowers. Styles thread- 

 shaped, spreading, permanent, dilated at the base, and 

 forming a double permanent globe. Stigmas obtuse. 

 Floral Receptacle none. Fruit elliptic-oblong, trans- 

 versely compressed, tumid. Seeds with 4 jirincipal ribs, 

 beset each with a row of numerous, flattish, somewhat 



