102 ORD. VI. Umbellate. 
CARUM CARUT. COMMON CARAWAY. 
SYNONYMA... Caruon. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Carum ‘sei 
Careum. Gerard. Emac. p. 1034. Caros: J. Bauh. iil. p. 69. 
Cuminum. pratense, Carui officinarum. Bauh. Pin. p. 158. 
-Carum vulgare. Park. Theat. p. 910. Camer. Epit. 516. 
_ Rait Hist. p. 446. Synop. p.. 213. Morison Umbellifer. p. 24. 
‘Jacq. Flor. Aust. 393. Haller Stirp. Helv. n. 789. Withering. 
Bot. Arrang. p. 312. Smith. Brit. 330. Jacq. Aust. 393. 
‘Kags Dioscorid. -Cateum. . Plinii. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 365. 
Ess.Gen.Ch. Fructus ovato-oblongus, striatus. Involucr. 1-phyllum. 
Petala carinata, inflexo-emarginata. 
THE root is biennial, long, thick, white, and has a sharp sweet- 
ish taste:* the stalk is round, strong, channelled, branched, and 
rises” to the ‘height ‘of two or three feet: the leaves are long, and 
ubdivide amerous pinnule or segments, which are narrow, 
pointed, 6f'a deep green colour, and have a sweet tasté:} the 
flowers grow in terminal umbels, generally consisting of ten radii, 
and furnished with both a general and a partial ihvolucran, each of 
which, in the specimen we have figured, consisted of four or five 
narrow segments: the corolla is composed of five roundish blunt 
petals, which are white, and curled inwards at the extremities: the 
five filaments are slender, about the length of the petals, and 
crowned with small round anthere: the two styles are short, ca- 
' pillary, and furnished with simple stigmata: .the seeds are two, 
naked, brown, bent, striated, and of an oblong shape. 
* Parkinson says that these roots are better eating than parsneps. 
- + The leaves are said to afford an oil similar to that of the seeds.—Vide Lewis 
and others. 
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