:>'S PENTANDRIA-^DIGYNIA. Daucus. 



Engl. Bat. i;.34. t. 2413. FL Grcoc. v. 3. 08. t. 2(35. Turr. Far- 

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



E. maritima spinosa. Tourn. Inst. QUO. Dill, in Rail Syn. 220. 



Critbmum spinosum. Dod. Pempt. 705./. Ger. Em. 533./. Rail 

 Syn. ed. 2, 1 14. 



C. secundum. Matth.Valgr.v.].445.f. Ed. Bauh.SSl.f. Camer. 

 Epit.27o.f. 



P^istinaca marina. Lob. Ic. 710. f. Dauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 196./. 

 Dalech.Hist.VidQ.f. 



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



Observed bv Mr. Lawson at Hoosebeck in Low Furness, Lanca- 

 shire. Fuiy. Between Feversham and Sea Sfilter. Bluckstone. 

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

 near West-chestcr. Gcrarde. 



Perennial. July. 



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

 in o- 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 ))innatifid, with narrow, channelled, entire, 

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

 numerous. General bracleas undivided, numerous, about as 

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

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

 Marginal Jiowers radiant and sometimes neuter. Fruit globose, 

 encompassed with the spreading hardened partial bracleas, 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. U\. Juss. 224. Fl. Br. 300. Tonrn.t.lGl. Lam. 

 t. 192. Gartn. t.20. 



FL separated ; the outermost irregular, barren ; inner ones 

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

 lete. Pet. inversely heart-shaped, with an infiexed point, 

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

 very unetjual, of die odd one equal and largest. Filam. 

 capillary, longer than the corolla, spreading. Antli, 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 principal ribs, 

 beset each with a row of nmncrous, flatfish, somewhat 



