

266 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Bunium. 



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mari'timus. D. Angles of the seeds 4 large and 3 small: umbels con- 

 vex when in seed . 



I first gathered this plant on the western coast of Cornwall, 

 and at my request the Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Penzance, paid 

 a particular attention to it during the course of last summer, 

 from whose observations and from the examination of the dried 

 specimens the following circumstances are given. 



Bulbo 



cas'- 



tanum. 



Root a dirty white. 



Stem from 1 to 2 feet high, woolly and scored. 



Leaves hairy, or rather woolly ; leaiits slightly cloven, 



broad, rounded at the end, succulent, curled. 



Umbels white; convex, not cupped when in seed. 



Involucrum 9 wing-cleft leafits, segments spear-shaped. 



Involucellum 9 leafits, 6 spear-shaped, 3 wing-cleft. 



Seeds with 4 large, broad, deeply toothed ridges, and 3 



smaller intervening ones. The seeds resemble those 

 of the D. muricatus, but the plant differs in other re- 

 spects. 



Sea-coast Carrot. Rocks on the S. W. coast. A. July* Aug. 



BU'NIUM. BIoss. uniform : umbel crowded : styles 



bent back, deciduous : seeds rather cylindri- 

 cal, scored, thicker towards the end. 



B. Involucrum of many leaves: stem with leaves at the 



base rising from the root : styles deciduous. 



Fl. dan. 220-Barr. 2M-Dod. 334. \-Lob. obs. 429- % \c. 

 i. 745. l-Ger. em. 1064. 2-Bark. S93-Ger. 906. \~& 

 ex. ix. 2, row 2. fig. 2d $ n. l~Pet. 25. 9-J. B. iii. 6. 3 ° 

 -Ger. 906. 2-Mattb. 866. 



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An infusion of them has been found to afford relief in sharp fits of the 

 gravel. Mr. Woodward.— Carrots are a grateful and nutritious food tot 

 all kinds of cattle, and well worthy of a more general cultivation for the 

 purpose of the farmer. Carriage horses will work upon them nearly as 

 well as upon oats, but if given beyond a certain period, the cattle are ap* 

 to make bloody urine. — Crickets are very fond of them, and arc easily 

 destroyed by making a paste of powdered arsenic, wheat meal, ^ 

 scraped carrots, which must be placed near their habitation*. A poultice 

 made of the roots has been found to mitigate the pain, and abate toe 

 Blench of foul and cancerous ulcers. 



