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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Caucalis. 





Umbellules crowded. Seeds oblong. Leafits egg-shaped, wing- 

 cleft. Branches upright. Huds. Leaves hairy, with about 2 pair 

 of leafits ; the terminating leafit very long, Involucr. leaves 

 strap-shaped, from 5 to 8, not half the length of the umbel. 

 Umbel spokes 8 to 10. Involucell. leaves spear-shaped, sur- 

 rounding, and of the length of the umbellule. Florets all fertile. 



Tordyl'ium Anthriscus. Linn, which see. hedge Parsley or 



Hensfc 



Horses are extremely fond of it. 



B. Aug. 



scandi 



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CO ~~T I D 



hooked prickles on the back. 



fol 



J< 



H % ox. ix. 10. tovj 



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Leaves triply winged, segments wing-cleft, crowded with 

 white stiff, upright hairs. Stem, branches and fruitstalk quite 

 smooth ; sheaths of the leaves remarkably woolly, Involucr. 

 none. InvolucelL of 4 or 5 leafits. Umbels either sitting, or on 

 friut stalks ; spokes 5 or 6*. Umbellules spokes 5 to 7. Flowers 

 almost all fertile. Petals white. The prickly fruit induced 

 Scopoli and Haller to consider it as a Caucalis, and as such it is 

 now arranged by Gmelin in the last ed. of syst. veg. 



Scandix Anthrlscus. Linn, Huds. Jacq. Curt. E. bot. 



Amongst rubbish, and on road sides. [On the beach at Wey- 

 mouth.] A. May, June, 



nodo'sa. C* Umbels lateral, simple, mostly sitting: seeds egg- 



shaped j outer ones set with bristles, inner ones 



rough. 



Jacq 



em. 1022. 6-H.ox 



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Leaves finely divided, with a slight hairiness on each side. 

 Umbels opposite to the leaves. Roughness on the inner seeds re- 

 sembling shagreen. Woodward. In a specimen from Montpelier 

 all the seeds rough with bristles* Stokes. Plant from 6 to V* 

 inches high. Bristles of the seeds barbed, ending in a claw. 



Knotted Hensfoot. Tordylium ?iodosum. Sp. pi. Borders of 



Cornfields. [Ditches in Somersetshire.] A. June* 



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DAUCUS. Bloss. somewhat radiated, (generally) 



all the florets hermaphrodite: leafits of the 

 involucrum divided: seeds with mem- 

 branaceous toothed ridges. 



