40 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Caucalis. 



2. D. maritimus. Sea-coast Carrot. 



Bristles of the seeds flattened. Leaflets dilated, fleshy, pin- 

 natifid, with rounded segments. Umbels convex when 

 in seed. 



D. maritimus. With. 2^0. Comp. 45. Engl Bot. v. 36. t. 2560. 



D. maritimus lucidus. Dill, in Raii Syn. 218. 



On the sea coast, of the south of England. 



Near Dover. Sherard and Rand. In Cornwall. Withering. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Of a more humble stature than the former, with broad, shining, 

 bluntly cut lenjlets, whose edges and ribs are hairy. The brae- 

 teas are all broader ; ih^ partial ones more generally three-cleft. 

 Umbels destitute of the red central abortive flower, at all times 

 convex, never concave. Bristles of the seeds more flattened at 

 the base, rather resembling those of some foreign species than 

 the foregoing, from which this plant is surely distinct. It must 

 not be confounded with D. maritimus of Gsertner, t. 20, which 

 is rather, as that author himself observes, a Caucalis. 



140. CAUCALIS. Bur-parsley. 



Linn. Gen. iSO. Juss. 224. Fl. Br.296. Tourn.t.\7\. Lam.t.\92, 

 Gcertn. t. 20. 



FL imperfectly separated, irregular ; the outermost fertile. 

 Cal. superior, of 5 broad, acute, unequal, permanent 

 leaves. Pet. more or less unequal, inversely heart-shaped, 

 with a strongly inflexed point, the lobes of each almost 

 equal. Filam. awl-shaped, shorter than the corolla. Anth. 

 roundish. Germ, inferior, oblong, bristly. Fl. RecepL 

 obsolete. Styles awl-shaped, slightly spreading, much 

 shorter than the corolla, tumid and somewhat pyramidal 

 at the base, permanent. Stigmas abrupt, oblique. Fruit 

 elliptic-oblong, rather compressed transversely, tumid. 

 Seeds with 4' principal ribs, beset each with a row of nu- 

 merous, ascending, awl-shaped, hooked prickles; the 

 intermediate spaces prickly or rough ; the inner surfaces 

 flattish, and close together. 

 Moot annual, or biennial. Stern branched, furrowed, rough- 

 ish, leafy. Leaves on short stalks, doubly or triply pin- 

 natifid, toothed, or finely cut Umbels lateral and termi- 

 nal, stalked, of few general ra^s, and not many partial 

 ones. Fl. white or reddish, severa\ of them barren, or 

 abortive. Bracteas various, often broad ^nd membranous, 

 alwavs undivided. Fruit adhesive. 



