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PENTANDRIA. DTGYNIA. Carum 



ANE THUM. Petals entire ; rolled inwards : fruit 



lentil- shaped, but compressed ; small, scored, 



bordered. 





Fxni'culum. A, Leaves with many divisions, hair-like: seeds egg-ob- 

 long, tapering at £ach end, not bordered. 



Mill. \ll-Sheldr.\*-Wood<v. iGV-Rw. pent. 6l, Famcul- 

 Tourn. \6i~Dod. 297-Lob. obs. 448. and ic. i. 775. 2- 

 Ger.em. 1032-Parl. 884-Blaeinv. 288-H. ox. ix. % row 



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Ca'rui. 





1. \-Lonlc. 234-~Fuct>s. 501-Trag. 448-J. B. ill. 

 Ger.877- U 



From 3 to 5 feet high; blue green. Flowers yellow. 



Common Fennel. Fwelle. Fennel Dill. Chalk Cliffs. [Near 

 Marazion, Cornwall, plentiful. Mr. Watt. Nottingham Cas- 

 tle. Mr- Whately. — Near Spetchly, Worcestershire. St. 

 Western coasts, common.] B. July, Aug 



CA'RUM. Involucr. \ leaf: petals united, bentir 





etched at the end : ft 

 liptical, bulging, roundish and scored 



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Fl. dan. 1091-Ludtu. \56~Jacq. austr. 2>92~Woodv. 45- 

 Tour*. 1()0. 3-Blackw. 529-Riv. pent. 55, Carum-Ger. 

 87.9-#- ox. ix. c;, row 2. 1-Pet. 26. l~Dod. 299- tr^k* 

 obs. -418. \yandtc. i. 724. 1-Ger. em. WiA-Park. *H ' 



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Plant 2 to 3 feet high ; quite smooth. Leaves doubly com- 

 pound ; lea fit * in sixes, in a sort of whirl, 2 of them longer. /»- 

 <voluer. from 1 to 5 leaves. Umbel, spokes 9 to 12. Florets all 

 fertile. Petals and styles slightly tinged with red. 



Common Caraway* Meadows and pastures. [Near Bury. 

 Mr. CuLLUM.j B. May, June.t 



* The tender buds are useful in sallads.— The leaves boiled are used at 

 sauce for several kinds of fish, and eaten raw with pickled fish. ~ ft* /** V 

 the stalks are blanched as a winter sallad. — The seeds abound with an 

 essential oil, which is carminative and diuretic, but not heating.— TilC 

 Papilio macbaon feeds upon it. 



* Parkinson says, the young roots are better eating than parsneps.— 

 The tender leaves may be boiled with pot-herbs.— The seeds are used *ij 

 cakes ; incrusted with sugar are called caraway comfits, and are distill** 

 with spirituous liquors for the sake of the flavour they aftcrd.— The seeds 

 were formerly recommended by Dioscorides to pale-faced girls, ana i 



more modern days their use in'that case is not forgotten. — They *f e * 

 J — '"- 1 - 1 - - - 1 * * ~" abound with an essenti 



Sheep, goats, ami swine eat n 



despicable remedy in tertian agues. — They abound with an essential 0] \> 

 wnich is antispasmodic and carminative. 

 Cows and horses are not fond of iu 



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