PEXTANDRIA—DIGYNIA. Dauciis. 39 



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

 the intermediate ribs slightly prominent, rougliish ; the 

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

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

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

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

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

 wards either concave or convex. General, and some- 

 times parti ah bracieas pinnatifid, or three-cl<^ft, narrov%', 

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

 various in their respective degrees of perfectiou. 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. Linn. Sp. PL MS. PViM. v. 1 . 1389. Fl. Br. 300. 



Engl. Bot. V. 17. ^ 1 174. fVoodv. Med. Bot. t. 16). Mart. Rust. 



t. 82. Hook. Scot. 88. Fl. Dan. t. 723. 

 D. polvgamus. Gounn. Obs. 9. Jacq. Hort. Find. v. 3. 43. /. 78. 

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

 D. vulgaris. Raii Sijn. 218. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 198. 

 Caucalis Carota. Huds. 114. 

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

 Pustinaca sylvestris. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 107./. bad. Camer. Epit. 



50S./. 

 P. .sylvestris tenuifolia. Ger. Em. 102S./. bad. 

 P. erratica. Fuchs. Hisf. 684./. 



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



Biennial, June, Julij. 



Root .slender, yellowish, aromatic and sv/cetish, resembling the 

 Garden Carrot, which is only a cultivated variety. 5/e/n 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 tcrminatiiig the long leaf- 

 les.s brunches, solitarv, large, white, except the one central 

 neutral7/o?r(:'r, which is blood-red. Oencral bractcas pinnatilid, 

 slendiT, large, but not so long a">- the umbel ; partial undivided, 

 or partly .S-clelt, mem!)rano»'-'* ^^t the cdi;es. Seeds small, jho- 

 tectcd by the ir.curv.itiop of idl tlie flowcr-Btnlks, by which the 

 u.mbels are rennered '-ollow, 1 ke a bird's nest. 



Tlic hcri) and seids .aH' ditiretir, and eatocmed usefid in gravelly 

 or calculou-^ f^'.npIaint^i. 



